There haven’t been any SSTV events from the ISS recently, this being due to new laptops being deployed to the station and the Russian segment (where the gear used for SSTV transmissions is located) not having a proper interface for connecting the radio to the newer computers.
This issue was noted on the ARISS website on December 22, 2022. There’s usually a bunch of Russian SSTV events (usually planned around times when the station is primarily over Russia, unfortunate but understandable) and to a lesser extent some standard SSTV events around the holidays and earlier in the year.
All that being said, the radios on the station are still available for other uses. The radio located in the Columbus module is in a crossband repeater configuration (of which I was completely unaware of until a few weeks ago) and the radio onboard the Service module (likely the Russian module mentioned earlier) is configured for packet data.
I was able to send some APRS packets to the station on December 30, 2022 and they were picked up by VE2UAL-2 in Quebec and K4KDR-15 in Virginia.
I’ll need to do a check for the best ISS passes for next weekend as I’ll be winter camping and will have plenty of time to mess around with the radios. I’ll definitely be testing out the crossband repeater functionality.
If you go here, you can check out the status of the onboard radios. This also includes info on planned shutdowns for docking/undocking procedures with supply ships and what-not.
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