Minutes of ARISS-I meeting
ARISS International Monthly Meeting Teleconference
February 16, 2021 – 1200 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Gaston Bertels
Armand Budzianowski
Emanuele D’Andria
Francesco De Paolis
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Gianpietro Ferrario
Bruce Hunter
Bertus Husken
Tony Hutchison
John Kludt
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Interpreter: Ksenia Shelkova
Unable to attend:
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Jean-Pierre Courjaud
Darin Cowan
Martin Diggins
David Jordan
Peter Kofler
Chet Latawiec
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Mark Steiner
Meeting Agenda
Roll Call—Martha Muir, W4MSA
Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
Frank opened the meeting by thanking Sergey Samburov for allowing the use of the radio in the Service Module and recognizing the international cooperation shown in trying to solve the problem with the newly installed radio in the Columbus Module.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA
[Decisional]
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on February 16, 2021, Martha Muir took the Summary: Stefan Dombrowski made a motion to accept the January 2021 Minutes. Glenn MacDonell seconded that motion. The Minutes were approved without objection and will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting.
2. Columbus Module Radio System
[Informational]
Oliver summarized the situation by saying that the EVA (spacewalk) to install the Bartolomeo platform RF cabling in series with the ARISS antenna cable was completed on January 27. When the Columbus radio was attempted to be used for an ARISS contact with a school in Wyoming, that school could not pick up the astronaut on the ISS and the astronaut let the flight controllers know that he could not hear the school. Subsequent ARISS contacts are being made using the radio in the Russian Zvezda Service Module. ISS astronauts need to have Russian familiarization training to use that system.
It is presently suspected that there is a problem with cable HMU 601. Several cables located inside Columbus, next to the radio, will be tested one by one to determine if any will provide a clear RF path from the radio to the antenna. Oliver ended his summary by saying that so far, there is “no good news” here.
Frank added that, thanks to Sergey’s help, a scheduled contact in Canada happened within a week of that failure. Sergey replied “I did all I could for the betterment of ARISS”
.
3. Training of Russian Cosmonauts
[Informational]
Sergey Samburov reported that training and certification of all ISS cosmonauts and astronauts on the radio system in the Russian module have been completed except for the paperwork. It is expected that the paperwork will be completed within a week. He expects to have ARISS exchanges with school children to continue as scheduled. The attending conference delegates gave Sergey a big round of thanks.
4. Status of Waiver Requests
[Informational]
Summary: Frank Bauer spoke on behalf of the ARISS-I officers by expressing thanks to the ARISS mentors for their work with schools on the Multipoint Telebridge policy that was put into place as a result of the global pandemic and working with those schools on requesting a waiver from that policy. We all want the ARISS contacts to continue without interruption in a safe manner.
Frank continued by saying that some parts of the world have a better handle on this pandemic than other areas. As a result, some waiver requests have been granted and some have had their procedure plans adjusted to keep everyone safe. Australia is a ‘stellar’ place in keeping the pandemic in check and has had 3 of 3 waiver requests granted. Japan has had 2 of 2 such requests granted, too.
5. 2021 Ear to Ear Meeting
[Informational]
Summary: Oliver Amend summarized the current status and plans for this year’s ‘ear to ear’ meeting. Looking at a calendar, he pointed out that the week of June 21 to 26 is his recommendation for this year’s meeting as it didn’t conflict with other known big ham or NASA events going on.
Since this is the 20th anniversary of the ARISS program, Oliver recommended that Monday of that week be used for special commemorative events. A program about the Lunar Gateway needs to be added to the proposed agenda.
Once again, like last year, this will be a virtual meeting. Though there is desire to see and meet with others in person, there is still too much uncertainty about when it will be safe to travel again this year.
6. Status of ARISS-I and ARISS Ops Migration
[Informational]
Summary: Dave Taylor talked about the switch from ariss-i@amsat.org and ariss-ops@amsat.org to ariss-i@ariss-i.org and ops@ariss-i.org. The former of each of those is being phased out. Delegates to this conference should make sure they have upgraded to the new addresses.
Dave can do this manually for folks if they let him know. Bertus Hunter said he would work with Dave on this. Dave will send another email to folks about this. Next month’s meeting announcements should be sent using only the new ‘ariss-i.org’ list.
John Kludt said that he updated the ARISS Ops list by deleting folks who no longer want to be involved with it.
Ad Hoc
Frank let folks know that he did submit an Artemis-II proposal. It is too soon to have heard anything back about it.
Frank concluded today’s conference by saying that ‘today’s meeting and our positive outcomes, when issues arise, shows the impact of our international team working closely together.’
Next Meeting
The next meeting is March 16, 2021 at 1100 UTC.
ARISS International Monthly Meeting Teleconference
February 16, 2021 – 1200 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Gaston Bertels
Armand Budzianowski
Emanuele D’Andria
Francesco De Paolis
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Gianpietro Ferrario
Bruce Hunter
Bertus Husken
Tony Hutchison
John Kludt
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Interpreter: Ksenia Shelkova
Unable to attend:
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Jean-Pierre Courjaud
Darin Cowan
Martin Diggins
David Jordan
Peter Kofler
Chet Latawiec
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Mark Steiner
Meeting Agenda
Roll Call—Martha Muir, W4MSA
Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
Frank opened the meeting by thanking Sergey Samburov for allowing the use of the radio in the Service Module and recognizing the international cooperation shown in trying to solve the problem with the newly installed radio in the Columbus Module.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA
[Decisional]
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on February 16, 2021, Martha Muir took the Summary: Stefan Dombrowski made a motion to accept the January 2021 Minutes. Glenn MacDonell seconded that motion. The Minutes were approved without objection and will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting.
2. Columbus Module Radio System
[Informational]
Oliver summarized the situation by saying that the EVA (spacewalk) to install the Bartolomeo platform RF cabling in series with the ARISS antenna cable was completed on January 27. When the Columbus radio was attempted to be used for an ARISS contact with a school in Wyoming, that school could not pick up the astronaut on the ISS and the astronaut let the flight controllers know that he could not hear the school. Subsequent ARISS contacts are being made using the radio in the Russian Zvezda Service Module. ISS astronauts need to have Russian familiarization training to use that system.
It is presently suspected that there is a problem with cable HMU 601. Several cables located inside Columbus, next to the radio, will be tested one by one to determine if any will provide a clear RF path from the radio to the antenna. Oliver ended his summary by saying that so far, there is “no good news” here.
Frank added that, thanks to Sergey’s help, a scheduled contact in Canada happened within a week of that failure. Sergey replied “I did all I could for the betterment of ARISS”
.
3. Training of Russian Cosmonauts
[Informational]
Sergey Samburov reported that training and certification of all ISS cosmonauts and astronauts on the radio system in the Russian module have been completed except for the paperwork. It is expected that the paperwork will be completed within a week. He expects to have ARISS exchanges with school children to continue as scheduled. The attending conference delegates gave Sergey a big round of thanks.
4. Status of Waiver Requests
[Informational]
Summary: Frank Bauer spoke on behalf of the ARISS-I officers by expressing thanks to the ARISS mentors for their work with schools on the Multipoint Telebridge policy that was put into place as a result of the global pandemic and working with those schools on requesting a waiver from that policy. We all want the ARISS contacts to continue without interruption in a safe manner.
Frank continued by saying that some parts of the world have a better handle on this pandemic than other areas. As a result, some waiver requests have been granted and some have had their procedure plans adjusted to keep everyone safe. Australia is a ‘stellar’ place in keeping the pandemic in check and has had 3 of 3 waiver requests granted. Japan has had 2 of 2 such requests granted, too.
5. 2021 Ear to Ear Meeting
[Informational]
Summary: Oliver Amend summarized the current status and plans for this year’s ‘ear to ear’ meeting. Looking at a calendar, he pointed out that the week of June 21 to 26 is his recommendation for this year’s meeting as it didn’t conflict with other known big ham or NASA events going on.
Since this is the 20th anniversary of the ARISS program, Oliver recommended that Monday of that week be used for special commemorative events. A program about the Lunar Gateway needs to be added to the proposed agenda.
Once again, like last year, this will be a virtual meeting. Though there is desire to see and meet with others in person, there is still too much uncertainty about when it will be safe to travel again this year.
6. Status of ARISS-I and ARISS Ops Migration
[Informational]
Summary: Dave Taylor talked about the switch from ariss-i@amsat.org and ariss-ops@amsat.org to ariss-i@ariss-i.org and ops@ariss-i.org. The former of each of those is being phased out. Delegates to this conference should make sure they have upgraded to the new addresses.
Dave can do this manually for folks if they let him know. Bertus Hunter said he would work with Dave on this. Dave will send another email to folks about this. Next month’s meeting announcements should be sent using only the new ‘ariss-i.org’ list.
John Kludt said that he updated the ARISS Ops list by deleting folks who no longer want to be involved with it.
Ad Hoc
Frank let folks know that he did submit an Artemis-II proposal. It is too soon to have heard anything back about it.
Frank concluded today’s conference by saying that ‘today’s meeting and our positive outcomes, when issues arise, shows the impact of our international team working closely together.’
Next Meeting
The next meeting is March 16, 2021 at 1100 UTC.
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