Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:48:27 -0400WeeblyTue, 15 Sep 2026 12:39:37 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-march-17-2026

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Ana Guzman, Frank Bauer, Oliver Amend, Tanya Anderson,  Alexandra Tussing (interpreter), Darin Cowan, Jan Poppeliers, Keigo Komuro, Lou McFadin, Ryan Krenzischek, Sergey Samburov, Shizuo Endo, Alejandro Romero, Ciaran Morgan, Will Marchant, Dave Taylor, Andrea Lloyd, David Jordon, Michel Nawrocki, Rosalie White, Kenneth Ransom, Stefan Dombrowski,
 
February meeting minutes motion to accept by Darin Cowan and seconded by Rosalie White after correcting her name.

• Welcome— Frank Bauer
  • Doing great and making progress. Had first of our special topic meetings that covered hardware. Gives everyone a chance to understand were we are in those areas. We have an education meeting in two weeks and operations on May 5. We encourage you to attend since we will focus on strategic information during our face to face. The special topics cover where we are today and the face to face will discuss where we want to go in the future.
  • There have been discussions about extending ISS to 2032 by the NASA administrator. It will still need approval from the other supporters internationally.
  • NASA signed an addendum to the ARISS space act agreement. They have extended our agreement until Oct 1, 2026 to give them time to work on a new agreement.

 

• Face to face 2026 status — Oliver Amend
  • Face-2-Face 2026 meeting is now set for first week in June. Arrival & Setup on Monday, meetings Tuesday through Thursday with Friday as a reserve day (June 2-4, 2026) and departures.
  • Meeting schedule (DRAFT) Tuesday  – Learned lessons from recent missions and future space stations
  • Wednesday – New education, operations and hardware. Social dinner in the evening.
  • Thursday – Common goals, region roles and the plan forward. Final summary for planning over the next 10-15 years.
  • Hotel is the Travelodge and the venue is the British Interplanetary Society in Vauxhall. This is near central London so many tourist locations nearby.
  • Hotel reservations need to be coordinated with Oliver. Need minimum of 10 rooms to guarantee the group rate. They can support up to 20 rooms (all double rooms).
  • ETA and VISA  requirements for various countries will need to be verified. https://www.gov.uk/eta . ETA should be 16 pounds fee. Caution, as some other non-governmental sites charge more! ETA validity is for 2 years upon release, ETA processing within few days – don’t wait for last moment.
  • Frank – This meeting will involve discussions about a lot of change since the process will be changing due to the different opportunities and processes. This will be a good start to prepare for the new environment. Not all of these space stations will come to be and others might show up so we need to be well prepared and have a plan beforehand.

 

• Next SSTV Event  - Sergey Samburov and Will Marchant
  • Sergey - Our SSTV 20th anniversary special had a radio failure the next day. It appears that some radio components have issues. Radio is working on UHF. 437.55 is the frequency we plan to use for Cosmonautics Day SSTV. Output power will be medium (10 watts). 437.825 is also being used for APRS. Targeting SSTV April 10-14 but awaiting final schedule with MCC-M. Will is working with us on the imagery for the session.
  • Will – Images will include Gagarin, SuitSat, First shuttle flight, images of Tsiolkovsky and Goddard (liquid fuel rocket pioneers). Will discuss with Poland team about supporting award certificates.

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • Artemis 2 is targeting a launch on April 1 which supports the Doppler experiment.
  • Canada – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Europe – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Japan – Shizuo will be processing applications for the region.
  • Russia – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • USA – Meeting today with ESA engineering team on the Astro Pi and IORS integration efforts.

 
Next meetings:

• March 31: Education Status/Discussions (1.5 hours) 1100 UTC
• April 21: Monthly ARISS International meeting (1.5 hours) 1100 UTC
• May 5:  Operations Status/Discussions (1.5 hours) 1100 UTC
• May 19: Monthly ARISS International meeting (1.5 hours) 1100 UTC
• June 2-4: ARISS-I Face-to-Face meeting, London, England

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:38:10 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-february-17-2026

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Ana Guzman,  Frank Bauer, Kenneth Ransom, Will Marchant, Shizuo Endo, Ryan Krenzischek, Tanya Anderson, Jan  Poppeliers, Lou McFadin, Glenn MacDonell, Alexandra Tussing (interpreter), Sergey Samburov, Ciaran Morgan, Dave Taylor,  Oliver Amend, Micol Ivancic, Rosalie White, Michel F1AFW, Ciaran Morgan, Will Marchant,  Chris Thompson, Daryl Young,  Darin Cowan, Gianpietro Ferrario,  Bertus Husken
 
January meeting minutes motion to accept by Roslie White after name correction and seconded by Darin Cowen.
 

• Welcome and New Year greeting— Frank Bauer
  • Very busy with all aspects of the organization. Looking forward to future operation on other space stations and lunar. This will be a major topic at the face to face.
  • Thanks for your continued work and support.

 
 

• Face to face 2026 status — Oliver Amend
  • Face-2-Face 2026 meeting is now set for first week in June. Arrival & Setup on Monday, meetings Tuesday through Thursday with Friday as a reserve day (June 2-4 2026).
  • Expecting 19 attendees based on email responses plus local guests from AMSAT UK and RSGB
  • Evening dinner on Thursday with about 23 attendees + guests expected.
  • Ciaran – location preliminarily reserved :-
    •  - British Interplanetary Society (BIS) in central London / Vauxhall.
  • BIS will give access to most of the facility and kitchen for use. No food & drinks are currently included in the planning.
  • Proposal to RSGB in works to assist with charges.
  • Inquiry to team about local availability and hotel accommodation needs for first week in June to be sent to the ARISS-I team. Contact to Travelodge   https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/576/London-Vauxhall-hotel but no group discount online, but do have a block booking option that can be booked in advance. Email with specifics to be sent.
  • Contacted Libby Jackson who was at ESA and ex UK Space Agency but now the head of space at the science museum. Possible tour on Wednesday afternoon for free. Other private options at science museum are of a significant additional cost.
  • Heathrow is better airport for travel to London and the hotel area in Vauxhall.
  • ETA and VISA  requirements for various countries will need to be verified. https://www.gov.uk/eta . ETA should be 16 pounds fee. Caution, as some other non-governmental sites charge more! ETA validity is for 2 years upon release, ETA processing within few days – don’t wait for last moment.
  • Progress report and discussion telecons :

March 3 [Hardware] topics to Frank, Oliver and Lou
March 31[Education] topics to Tanya and Micol
May 5 [Operations] topics to Frank and Ryan
These will be performed in advance of the F2F 2026 meeting. Same time period that we normally hold the ARISS-I meeting and lasting no more than 1.5 hours.
 

• Crew 11/ Crew 12 impacts —Ana Guzman
  • Crew 11 returned to earth on 14 January, crew 12 launch was 13 February 2026 and crew is now on ISS and getting settled in.
  • Ana – Jack Hathaway and Sofie Adenot getting ham radio handover training this week.

 

• Artemis II doppler expriment —Daryl Young
  • Five stations participating.  Located in Europe and USA.
  • Antennas are considered small due to being under 9 meters.

 

• Astro PI integration with IORS —Chris Thompson
  • Initial Astro Pi launched as part of the Tim Peake mission. Mark II version launched in 2024.
  • Currently configured for mode changes performed by on-board crew. SSTV only available from Russian segment.
  • Automation of the COL radio would eliminate the crew need to configure radio and add SSTV capability from COL as well.
  • Units are already certified and on ISS. Could send simplified sensor data and automation of mode changes to free up crew.
  • Test scenarios include HDMI output to Ham TV, SSTV, Student telemetry, IORS control. IORS control via ground station command.
  • Up mass would only be a few cables (~300 grams).

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • Canada – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Europe – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Japan – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Russia – Status of D710GA testing next week to see if they can get the SSTV to work. Hoping for session in April if successful,
  • USA – Submitted Proposal to VAST (commercial space station) for Haven 1. Basically V/U system with option for L/S capability. VAST will fly crew to ISS for training in mid-2027. Axiom 5 to launch crew in early 2027, sent radio size, weight and power information to Axiom, per their request.
  • Next meeting March 17, 2026 at 1100 UTC

 
]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:36:58 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-january-20-2026

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Oliver Amend, Will Marchant, Dave Taylor, Kenneth Ransom, Shizuo Endo, Ryan Krenzischek, Tanya Anderson, Jan  Poppeliers, Lou McFadin, Glenn MacDonell, Ana Guzman,  Armand Budzianowski, Alex  Khalimov (interpreter), Tanya Anderson, Sergey Samburov, Ciaran Morgan, David Jordon, Graham Shirville, Micol Ivancic, Rosalie White, Keigo Komuro, Michel F1AFW, Graham Shirville, Ciaran Morgan, Ryan Krenzischek, Armand Budzianowski, Keigo Komuro, Will Marchant,
 
December meeting minutes motion to accept by Cirian Morgan and seconded by Ryan Krenzischek.

• Welcome and New Year greeting— Oliver Amend
  • Frank is in Houston and attended ISS 25th celebration.
  • Working on VAST proposals from December.
  • Thanks for your continued work and support.

 

• Crew 11/ Crew 12 impacts — Oliver Amend and Ana Guzman
  • Crew 11 returned to earth on 14 January, crew 12 launch was initially planned NET 15 February 2026, which may be advanced now by some days. For a period of at least 4-5 weeks, only 1 USOS astronaut instead of 3 is on board ISS but loaded with a lot of standard ISS tasks.
  • Ana – We had to reduce the schedule since we now only have one USOS crew member. Next week our planned 3 events had to be just 1 event. We will reschedule the other 2 later in the year. We will maintain one a week contacts until crew 12 arrives.
  • Oliver – We only have Chris Williams supporting 1 a week until crew 12 arrives. Initially, crew 12 was scheduled for NET 15 Feb. Waiting to see when they actually launch. Frank sent a status email outlining the changes.
  • Ciaran - any info on doing 2 events in the governors’ week. Ana – planners have the info for both events. They will look and see if it is possible and then ask Chris if he can support both.

 

• Face to face 2026 status — Oliver Amend
  • Face-2-Face 2026 meeting is now targeted for  first week in June. Arrival & Setup on Monday, meetings Tuesday through Thursday with Friday as a reserve day (June 2-4 2026).
  • Ciaran – F2F - Airbus not possible due to site restrictions.
  • Ciaran – Other options are still being looked at including :-
    •  - University of Surrey at Guildford
    •  - Holiday Inn in Guildford
    •  - British Interplanetary Society (BIS) in central London.
    •  - Oxford/Harwell campus (near UK Space agency and ESA UK office)
  • Preferred location is BIS, Ciaran will check if still possible
  • Inquiry to team about local availability and hotel accommodation needs for first week in June to be sent to the ARISS-I team
  • ETA and VISA  requirements for various countries will need to be verified. https://www.gov.uk/eta . ETA should be 16 pounds fee. Caution, as some other non-governmental sites charge more!
  • Oliver – F2F 2026 Agenda is changing from previous meetings. Future opportunities involve many possible space stations and lunar activities. Multiple opportunities will need to be pursued at the same time. We need to focus on that in the F2F meeting on strategies.
  • Progress report and discussion telecons (March 3 [hardware], March 31[education] and May 5 [Operations]) will be performed in advance of the F2F 2026 meeting. Same time period that we normally hold the ARISS-I meeting and last no more than 1.5 hours.
• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • 25th anniversary status –
  • Russia – Status of D710GA reset is to send a radiogram in Feb. Will to try SSTV to celebrate 20th anniversary of RadioSkaf (AKA SuitSat). Russian crew also busy due to reduced on orbit support.
  • Europe – HDMI converter installed. Color bars is now the default signal. Testing with Cameras is having to be delayed due to crew 11 early departure. Planning for S. Adenot school contacts.
  • Japan – Prepare topic list for items at F2F.
  • Canada – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • USA – Working on Proposal to VAST (commercial space station).
  • Next meeting February 17, 2026 at 1200 UTC

 
]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:28:30 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-december-16-2025

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Ana Guzman,  Dave Taylor,  Tanya Anderson, Ciaran Morgan, Deb Lebair, Graham Shirville, Maria Pogodina (interpreter), Jan  Poppeliers, Kenneth Ransom, Lou McFadin, Oliver Amend, Rosalie White, Ryan Krenzischek, Shizuo Endo, Sergey Samburov, Will Marchant, Keigo Komuro, David Jordon, Micol Ivancic, Bertus Husken, Stefan Dombrowski, Glenn MacDonell
 
 
November meeting minutes motion to accept by Dave Taylor and seconded by Cirian Morgan.

• Welcome— Oliver Amend
  • Hope everyone is having a great day. Thank you for joining.
  • 2025 achievements. Thanks for all your help for 25 years of continuous operation on ISS. One additional note to the list is the SSTV on RS=38.

 

• Face to face 2026 status — Oliver Amend
  • Targeting April to Mid-September 2026
  • Location – TBD (focusing on European region. Preference should be accessible for Sergey, like UK.) Calendar shown with public holidays and major conferences or exhibitions.

Request to participants to identify other “NO GO” events to be respected in the detailed meeting week scheduling.

• Ciaran – F2F - we have ruled out the option of SSTL in Guildford due to the limited size.
• Ciaran – Other options are still being looked at including :-
  •  - University of Surrey at Guildford
  •  - Hotel in Guildford
  •  - British Interplanetary Society in central London.
  •  - Plus a new option that is being investigated which is Airbus in Stevenage.
• We need to select a week to progress further since the sites want to know when to host, We also need an approximate number of attendees.
• Following discussions, preferred option 1 is week June 2-4 2026, alternative is option 2 for week June 9-11 2026
• Inquiry to team about availability for first or second week in June to be sent.
• Visa requirements for various countries will need to be verified. https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration
• Oliver – Topics to cover include education, operations and some technical (see presentation slide 9)

 

• SSTV status—Will Marchant, Sergey Samburov
  • Sergey – We had an issue with our ISS SM station so we accepted a proposal to send them via RS-38S. That worked well. Plan for end of the year is to recover the ISS SM radio.
  • Will – Event on RS-38S was from Dec 5-13 using 70 cm. Thanks to Sergey for the satellite use and Slavik & team for the awards.

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • 25th anniversary status – Regional achievement list was due Nov 28. Webinar planned for Dec 21 to commemorative 25th anniversary of first school contact.
  • Ciaran - HDMI converter to be installed on Ham TV unit next week.
  • Graham – question if anyone has experience using an IC-905 for school contacts. Looking at possible remote use of display.
  • Russia – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Europe – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Japan – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Canada – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • USA - NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Next meeting January 20 2026 at 1200 UTC

 
]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:27:38 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-november-18-2025

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Ana Guzman, Frank Bauer,  Tanya Anderson, Alexandra Tussing (interpreter), Armand Budzianowski, Ciaran Morgan, Graham Shirville, Jan  Poppeliers, Kenneth Ransom, Lou McFadin, Oliver Amend, Rosalie White, Ryan Krenzischek, Shizuo Endo, Sergey Samburov, Will Marchant, Keigo Komuro, David Jordon, Dave Taylor, Michel Nawrocki, Micol Ivancic,
Stefan Dombrowski,
 
October meeting minutes motion to accept by Stefan and seconded by Cirian.
 

• Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 
  • Welcome. Thanks for being here and congratulations on 25 years of continuous operation. We have operated with all 73 crew expeditions. We have done 1744 contacts and touched over 1 million youth.

 

• Face to face status — Oliver Amend
  • Targeting April to Mid-Autumn 2026
  • Location – TBD (focusing on European region. Preference should be accessible for Sergey, like UK.) Calendar shown with public holidays and major conferences or exhibitions.

Request to participants to identify other “NO GO” events to be respected in the detailed meeting week scheduling.

• Ciaran – One option is Central London, British Interplanetary society but limited capacity. Accommodations nearby for housing are limited. Ideal time would be May/June. Heathrow and Gatwick airports would serve that area. Alternatively, Guildford has a couple of venues. Surrey Satellite Technologies but limited for 20 attendees. University of Surrey possible but only during school holiday periods. A hotel near the University could host the conference and also be the location for accommodations. Heathrow is preferred airport for this location. A few other locations still being reviewed. RSGB is keen to support the meeting.

 

• 25th Anniversary Planning—Frank Bauer
  • Celebration would run from now until Nov. 2026.
  • 25th Anniversary article on ARISS.org website
  • Each region is requested to compile the most impactful activities and write 2-4 paragraph description. To be sent to ARISS officers
  • Developed a 3 page list of achievements. Comments requested NLT Nov 28th to ARISS officers
  • Plan to develop 1 page graphic of accomplishments
  • Webinar planned around Dec 21 to commemorate 25th anniversary of first school contact.
  • SSTV end of year event (TBD).
  • Future efforts? (see slide for ideas).

 

• SSTV status—Will Marchant, Sergey Samburov
  • Event started Nov 12. Planned for a week. Worked for a few hours.
  • Hoping for Holiday greeting at the end of the year and/or SuitSat anniversary in Feb 2026 if hardware can be operational.
  • Sergey – Cycle systems and check connectors but found no solution. Voice contact worked using D710E. Still troubleshooting D710GA. Symptom is that radio shuts down about 4 seconds after PTT depressed.

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • Russia – NTR (Nothing to Report)
  • Europe – Aware of the issue with Azerbaijan contact. Ops team working on it.
  • Japan – Satoshi is key person for ARISS but Shizou cannot contact him but still trying.
  • Canada – not present
  • USA - NTR
  • Next meeting December 16 at 1200 UTC

 
]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:25:53 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agendaoctober-21-2025

• Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Frank Bauer, Tanya Anderson, Kenneth Ransom, Ciaran Morgan, John Croft, Jan  Poppeliers, Lou McFadin, Shizuo Endo, Will Marchant, Rosalie White, Michel Nawrocki, Graham Shirville, Dave Jordan, Micol Ivancic, Keigo Komuro, Dave Taylor, Stefan Dombrowski, Armand Budzianowski,
 
 
September meeting minutes motion to accept by Rosalie White and seconded by Oliver Amend
 

• Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 
  • Welcome. We have a secretary so thanks for doing acceptance of the agenda minutes. Glad that Ham TV is working.

 

• Ham Video Operations Status — Frank Bauer, Ana Guzman, Ciaran Morgan
  • Ciaran presented slides on Ham TV (Attached).  Showed video of the contact. Video from ISS available at: https://live.ariss.org/media/HAMTV%20Recordings/2025-10-18%20Radford%20Semele%20UK/merged-2025-10-18_contact.mp4

 Ana reported successful and Jonny Kim was excited and happy. Frank – Working to prepare operations to allow for use of the more modern X705 camera with the HDMI adapter.
 

• SSTV: Upcoming events—Will Marchant
  • Will presented slides on World Space Week SSTV events (Attached). Rosalie – Great to see statistics and participation levels. Also, some comments are very interesting. Frank – Tim Peake is a scout so we can include him in the upcoming SSTV event.

 

• 25th Anniversary Planning—Frank Bauer
  • Soon after crew arrived in Nov 2000, radio was tested and a little over a month later the first successful school contact occurred. Develop a one pager of all the accomplishments during the past 25 years. Identify youth that are now in STEAM/STEM careers. More ideas on the slide presented.
  • JARL celebrating 100 year in 2026.

 

• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • K6DUE Status – NASA is likely looking at a large reduction in personnel. They are closing down the building that houses K6DUE. As a result, K6DUE will be moving.

 

• Face to Face planning – Oliver – We are discussing in background to try and get a location and time frame for a face to face that is as inclusive as possible and having good public transportation from airport and the venue. Currently looking around April time frame and likely in European region.

 

• Time Change coming next month for ARISS-I meeting (Nov 18). Moving from 11:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC.
  

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:21:01 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/ariss-i-meeting-agenda-september-16-2025

• Roll Call— Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO

Attendees: Frank Bauer, Kenneth Ransom, Ciaran Morgan, Graham Shirville, Rosalie White, Dave Taylor, Shizuo Endo, Ana Guzman, Tanya Anderson, Bertus Husken, Jan  Poppeliers, Will Marchant, Ryan Krenzischek, Lou McFadin, Randy Berger, Keigo Komuro, John Croft, Michel Nawrocki, Micol Ivancic,
 
 

• Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 
  • Welcome back Kenneth in his new role as Sec/Tres.
• HamVideo Operations Status — Frank Bauer, Ana Guzman, Ciaran Morgan
  • Subcommittee setup to take over for technical team. Initial meeting had 60 attendees. Several stations from Europe willing to support. A few from Australia. Big push to add stations in North America. Merger system testing in works. Several on board hardware tests needed.
• SSTV: Upcoming events—Will Marchant
  • Several short SSTV events coming up. The short downlink opportunities (1-3 days) makes it hard to get all 12 images. Proposing to duplicate slides in the 12 image (required) set, which should increase the chances of getting a full set of 6. An alternate option is to have 4 images repeated 3 times.
  • Sessions Oct 3-6 for Sputnik-1, World Space Week, (6  distinct slides), Oct 17-20 for JOTA (4 distinct slides,  Potentially Nov 13 and Dec 21 for ARISS 25th Anniversary, Holiday greetings and 40th Anniversary of MIR launch.
• ARISS APRS Reporting—Will Marchant
  • ARISS.net has been a source of ISS packet info since early 2000’s. It is not part of ARISS and has advertising to support the funding. Will has been testing a version that would run on the ARISS.org site. Please let Will know if you are interested in serving on the APRS server committee
• 25th Anniversary Planning—Frank Bauer
  • November 2000 began ARISS testing and events. The first school contact was held on Dec 21, 2000. We are looking for ideas on how to celebrate.
• NASA SCaN Request for Information (RFI): Lunar Opportunity to receive one-way doppler signals on Artemis-II—Frank Bauer
  • NASA SCaN is one of our sponsors. Support from ARISS on this project would be beneficial. Ciaran and Rosalie are supportive of having AREx being restarted to support.
• AOB  (Any Other Business)
  • Next meeting Oct 21.
  • Will was our ops lead but stepped down to support other areas. Frank has been filling in for the interim but Ciaran Morgan will be stepping up as the ops  lead for ARISS International.

 
 

]]>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/december-17-2024­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
December 17, 2024 – 1200 UTC

Participants

Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Ana Guzman
Micol Ivancic 
Keigo Komuro
Deb Lebair
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda                 
 
 
Meeting December 17, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
              
Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
   
               Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and began it by talking about the passing of ARISS Elder Statesman Gaston Bertels ON4WF. A moment of silence was held in Gaston’s honor. Gaston provided foundational support in the early days of ARISS, particularly through drafting and coordinating the adoption of the ARISS Terms of Reference. He was the ARISS Chair for several years.  And he led the development and installation of the Columbus module L/S band antenna systems, getting ESA approval to install them before the launch, fundraising for the project, and working with Pawel Kabacik from the Wroclaw University on antenna development, testing and certification. Before that, he conducted some of the first SAREX contacts from Europe, most notably the 1992 contact between astronaut Dirk Frimout, ON1AFD, with youth at the ESA.  Graham shared that Gaston inspired the European parliaments to support ARISS.  He will be greatly missed and greatly remembered, Graham concluded.   
Frank next introduced Deb Lebair, who will be taking over some of the ARISS website responsibilities from Carol Jackson and metrics activities from Rosalie. Deb might be contacting you if your school or engagement activity report is overdue.
Frank pointed out that this is the last meeting of the year.  We’ve had 1700 contacts in 24 years!
   
1.  Call for Acceptance Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
 
Martha sent out the minutes of the November ARISS-I meeting prior to today’s meeting.
 Ciaran made a motion to accept the minutes and Rosalie seconded that motion.  The motion was accepted without dissent. They will be sent to Deb Lebair to be posted on the ARISS website.
 

2.  HamTV Update – Kenneth Ransom
 
Kenneth said that the topology assessment has been completed by ESA.It is now
 in the review cycle.  After that is completed, we can start installing the HamTV system.  

3.  ARISS-I Delegates Face to Face Meeting – Glenn MacDonell

Glenn said that the first person to book a hotel is Shizuo!   The hotel now has an internet link for us to use.  Click on the link and select the room type that you want.   Glenn was asked to send out that link to ARISS I.  He will check into visa requirements. 
Glenn said that he is still waiting to hear which representative from CSA will be speaking with us.    
The 2025 ARISS-I meeting will be from Monday, April 7, to Wednesday, April 9.

5.  Axiom IV – Frank Bauer

Frank said that we will be supporting this venture.  Peggy Whitson will be the commander of this crew.  The other crew members are from Poland, Hungary, and India.  Those three have agreed to be involved making ham radio contacts while on the ISS, at least two school contacts each.  The launch is scheduled for no earlier than May 16 and the mission is scheduled to continue for 14 days.   (If that schedule holds, perhaps we will do something with this at the Dayton Hamvention.)

Any Other Business
 

• Frank said that the NAVCOM experiment was launched on SpaceX-31 and is close to integration on ISS.  It will be using the ARISS S-band antennas to support an experiment on Lunar Navigation.  NAVCOM will perform 10 passes over four ground stations in Italy to conduct the experiment. GNSS-like navigation receivers on the moon plan to use a segment of S-band for their navigation signal, which has been coordinated internationally. 
  

• Frank said that there is a proposal in work that would be a partnership with NASA-KSC for an externally mounted payload on Artemis IV.  This would include an amateur radio payload located at the lunar south pole.  This will require us to reinvigorate AREX if NASA asks for a step 2 proposal. 

 

• Mission Opportunity #1 (MO#1).  Frank expects to talk more about this at the January and/or February meetings.  Because ARISS is under a Non-Disclosure Agreement during feasibility and initial development, it currently involves a limited number of ARISS team members, mainly the USA and ESA teams.  This project is supported by members from Education, Operations, and Engineering.     

 

• Will said that the next SSTV event will run until January 5.  Frank showed attendees a ‘rough draft’ of the 12 images, which includes an ESA tribute to Gaston.   Will said he will announce this program via social media before school lets out on Friday.

 

• Frank wished everyone a Happy Holiday season.  Merry Christmas.  Happy New Year.  Happy Hannukah.  Happy whatever you celebrate.

 
We need to continue to build up the team.We will talk about this at the Face-to-Face meeting.
 
Next Meeting:  January 21, 2025.

]]>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/november-19-2024Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
November 19, 2024 – 1200 UTC

Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Ana Guzman
Micol Ivancic  
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Jim Reed
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White

Interpreter:  Maria Pogodina                 
 

Meeting  November 19, 2024
 
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
     
Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.


Welcome – Frank Bauer
   
        Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and said this month has been spectacular with several outstanding school contacts with educational activities.  Also there were two wonderful SSTV events, one of which ended yesterday.  Thank you for everything you do.    

1.     Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
Martha sent out the minutes of the October ARISS-I meeting prior to today’s meeting.
 
Stefan made a motion to accept the minutes and Ciaran seconded that motion.  The motion was accepted without dissent. They will be sent to Deb Lebair to be posted on the ARISS website.


2.    HamTV Update – Kenneth Ransom
Kenneth said that we are waiting for the final topology report to be completed. After that, the HamTV will be integrated into the Columbus module.  Frank mentioned that there are new people at NASA and at ESA working on this assessment and have started from scratch, which is why it is taking so long.  Frank asked Oliver if we can get Ham TV CAD model to move this along faster.  Oliver said he will ask Kaiser.  

An HDMI converter is needed to support the new cameras on-board ISS.  Randy expects that the HDMI converter will be launched to the ISS mid-next year.  

3.    ARISS-I Delegates Face to Face Meeting – Oliver Amend and Glenn MacDonell
Glenn said the hotel we used at the last Face to Face meeting in Canada has agreed to hold several rooms for ARISS at a good price-point.  People who will be attending should contact the hotel and book their rooms directly.  For the special rates at the hotel, mention that you are with the ARISS delegation.  He has asked the CSA for a presentation on their Lunar Gateway initiatives and they are working on it.  
Oliver said he is collecting suggested topics to discuss at the meeting and will sort them into the meeting days in the near future.  
Frank asked everyone to get suggested topics to Oliver by December 15.   He also asked Glenn to put together the name of the hotel, the special rates, and contact information for the hotel and send it to the officers for distribution to the team.  Oliver will send this out to everyone.  
Frank thanked Glenn and Oliver for their work on our next Face to Face meeting.

4.    SSTV Update – Sergey Samburov
Sergey said that he is very happy with the results of the SSTV transmissions, which include images of the first use of ham radio in human space flight.  Hams, educators and youth from all over the world were involved and received diplomas.  Thanks to everyone involved in this, especially Armand and Slawek.   
Will said that image gallery has been moved to cloud based image storage system at this address:  https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV.  There is also a new method to request a certificate but there were a couple of glitches during operations that have since been fixed.  This new system aligns well with the awards program that the team in Poland has been supporting for so many years.  
Rosalie thanked Will for adding a “Please Donate” button to the web page.  We have already received donations from it.   
Oliver said an Indonesian group had their own certificates that featured an image of Owen Garriott.  A Chilean group also had their own certificate.  
A map showed SSTV from all over the world.  There was a lot of activity in the USA, Europe, and Asia.  
Sergey said would like to do another SSTV event during the last week of December and the first week of January.  The images will include seasonal greetings and images of great ARISS related activities of the past year and asked international folks to start gathering their images to be used.    
Sergey thanked Slawek, Armand, and Will for their work curating the images and certificates.  He would like to prepare some special awards for them.  
**Action Item:  Each  region should provide 2 images to be used for this event.  We will add a Seasons Greeting image and Sergey will provide 3 images.  Please send your two images to Frank by December 10.

AOB  (Any Other Business)
-    Rosalie said she would no longer be taking in Activity Reports and numbers.  Please send them to Deb Lebair at ariss.us.education@gmail.com

-      Thanks to Maria for interpreting today.
Next Meeting:  December 17, 2024

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.ariss.org/meeting-minutes/october-15-2024Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
  October 15, 2024 – 1200 UTC

Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Kerry Banke
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Ana Guzman
Micol Ivancic  
Dave Jordan
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Michel Nawrocki
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda

Interpreter:  Oxana Giannetti                 
 

Meeting October 15, 2024
 
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
     
Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.


Welcome – Frank Bauer
   
        Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and said this month has been spectacular and featured an outstanding SSTV event and school contacts around the world.    

1.     Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
Martha sent out the minutes of the September ARISS-I meeting prior to today’s meeting.
 Ciaran made a motion to accept the minutes and Glenn seconded that motion.  The motion was accepted without dissent. They will be sent to Carol to be posted on the ARISS website.


2.    HamTV Update – Kenneth Ransom
Kenneth said that work continues on the topology assessment and they are
 moving closer to approval.  Next up:  installation.  
Graham said that Noel Matthews gave a presentation at the RSGB meeting this past
 weekend.  Graham asked if it would be appropriate to present it at the upcoming AMSAT Symposium.  Frank said it might be good for folks on the ARISS team but he (Frank) is not in charge of the symposium schedule.  Get in touch with Dan Schultz.  Frank said it might be good to have a separate ARISS meeting and have Noel make his presentation there.  Graham said that Noel’s presentation was aimed at folks who do not know much about ARISS.
Frank said that when the HamTV unit was moved to a new location because another payload is now in the planned spot for HamTV, the HamTV cable was not long enough.  Thanks to the fact that we have the MarconISSta cables on-board, one of the MarconISSta cables was long enough to support HamTV operations.  “It is nice to have extra equipment available on the ISS.”

3.    ARISS-I Delegates Face to Face Meeting – Oliver Amend and Glenn MacDonell
Oliver asked Glenn for any updates about the facilities for the Face to Face meeting.   Glenn said he is working the dates with his contacts at the CSA.  In trying to work with the hotels, he asked for an estimate of the number of people who will likely attend.  Frank said he estimates about 30 for the hotels.  Oliver asked delegates to let him know if they will or will not need hotel accommodations.  Oliver is also asking for suggestions of topics to be discussed at the meeting such as new telebridge requirements or changes to the ARISS-I webpages.  Please get your topic suggestions to the ARISS-I officers.  Oliver thanked Glenn for keeping us up to date on this.
Frank said that we should add someone from CSA to speak about Gateway at the meeting.  Glenn said we would probably want to hear Ken Gutswaldy talk about this.  Glenn will ask him about this.  
Frank said we need to ensure we have a robust virtual meeting capability.  Glenn said he will check into this.  Rosalie said we had virtual meeting capability when ARISS-I met there before.

4.    SSTV Activities – Sergey Samburov
Frank congratulated Sergey on a successful SSTV event.  Sergey thanked Frank for his comment.  He said it took several years but it was successful.  It was not easy with the new computer but with great effort we had great results.  It was joint effort of the whole ARISS team.   It was a good idea to be able to do this in the Service Module.  Thanks to Southwest University for their work on this.  The number of diplomas (certificates) earned is unknown but Armand may be able to tell us.  
Frank asked Sergey if we will able to use different modes with the new software.  Sergey said he will ask Southwest University to work on this.  
Will thanked Sergey and his team.  There have been more than 7000 submittals so far from over 2700 individuals, from over 200 high school or younger students, from over 200 teachers in high schools or younger, and from over 200 college level students and teachers.  This was a tremendously popular activity.  
Oliver showed a show of several of Armand’s slides as Armand presented his comments:   Participants commented on the quality of the slides.  Requests for awards are still coming in.  The awards were created by Slawek Szymanowski.  He is glad that SSTV is online again.  Thanks for all who made this possible including the folks on the ISS.  
Oliver thanked Armand and the PZK team.  Armand continued saying that he will keep the request for awards open until tomorrow.  He has to make sure that the 1000 plus emails with awards he sent out is not classified as spam.  Armand appreciates the international cooperation on this.  Thank you for the kind words.  
Frank said the ham radio community, youth, and teachers all enjoy this.  

AOB  (Any Other Business)
-    Frank talked about the ARISS contact with the Girl Guiding Group.  Royalty was present!  The Duchess of Edinburgh was there.  Ciaran and Graham were running this.  The Duchess said she had many more questions she would have liked to have asked Sunni Williams.  Ciaran expressed his thanks to Graham and other members of the team.  

-    Frank said that some transitions are coming up.  Carol Jackson will continue to serve as treasurer for ARISS-US but is stepping back from some other duties.  Rosalie is stepping back on some metrics duties.  Frank has brought on board Deb Lebair.  She used to work on satellites for NASA.  After that she became a middle school teacher.  She comes from a family of hams, including her brother and her father.  

-    The next ARISS-I meeting will be on November 19.  Notice the UTC time change to 1200 UTC.  This accommodates the time changes in some areas.  This may impact Ops meetings, too.

-    Thanks to Oxana for her interpretations and to everyone for attending this meeting.
Next Meeting:  November 19, 2024

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