­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
  July 18, 2023 – 1100 UTC
 
Participants  
 
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Darin Cowan
Shizuo Endo         
Gianpietro Ferrario
Micol Ivncic
David Jordan  
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Martha Muir
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Masnobu Tsuji
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Alexandre Khalimov   
 
 
Meeting Agenda
 
Roll Call—Martha Muir, W4MSA
 
Martha took attendance by recording the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer KA3HDO
 
            Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and thanked everyone for another wonderful month of wonderful ARISS activities.
 
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes--Frank Bauer KA3HDO and Martha Muir W4MSA  [Decisional]

Darin made a motion to accept the minutes of the June meeting which was prepared by Rosalie White.Jan seconded that motion.The motion was adopted without dissent.The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting.

2. 40th Anniversary Celebration Status – Frank Bauer

While showing slides of the Space Shuttle SAREX, Mir MIREX, and ISS ARISS programs, Frank said that plans are coming together for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of what has evolved out of Owen Garriott’s initial use of Amateur Radio in space in 1983 on STS-9.This allowed astronauts to talk directly with ham radio operators on the ground and the public via ham radio.In the years following this led to school contacts, STEM activities, experiments, SuitSat/Radioskaf, and more.

In person celebrations will include the 2024 Face to Face meeting of ARISS-I, tours of the Kennedy Space Center, and then the 40th Anniversary Conference activities.Those activities will include exhibit booths, VIP keynote speakers (astronauts/cosmonauts), and a Gala dinner with VIP speakers as well.The venue for all of this will be the Center for Space Education located at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center.It has lots of room to accommodate lots of people.

Tentative Itinerary:Tuesday and Wednesday, February 20-21:ARISS-I Face to Face meetingThursday, February 22:Tours of the Kennedy Space Center.Friday and Saturday, February 23 -24:40th Anniversary Conference with the Gala dinner on Saturday or Friday night. The timing of all this is based on Richard Garriott’s availability (Richard is Owen’s son).

Design costs to be inclusive of costs for breakfasts and lunches.We have two options for the location of the Gala dinner:at the conference center’s ballroom or under the space shuttle Atlantis.Having it under the Space Shuttle Atlantis would cost more and would require getting sponsorship for this.Details are to be worked out.

Glenn asked if we can release this info to others.Frank said to wait until he confirms the dates with the venue, then yes. Frank said he will send out the slide deck with all this info.We need a big group working on this.Please nominate individuals to get involved in this.

Frank said he expects 50 to 60 people at the Face to Face meeting and up to 150-200 at the 40th Anniversary celebration.An online registration site for this will be set up once the venue is set and costs are understood.Invite member organizations.Look at the help wanted page for this event and volunteer for a task.Dave Taylor asked about formal invitations for supporting groups like AMSAT and IARU.We should generate a letter with photos.Oliver suggested we wait a couple of weeks for the details to settle out.

Shizuo said that the JARL is considering making a donation to the 40th Anniversary celebration.Now that there is a new president of this organization this might take more time to secure. Frank thanked Shizuo for his efforts with this. Glenn said that Canadian groups were considering a donation towards this, too.
 
3. HamTV Status Update – Frank Bauer

Frank said that in December of 2022, NASA did a spectrum study of the HamTV equipment.It showed that there is some interference between HamTV and some visiting vehicles and new ISS communications capabilities when HamTV is on.With so many visiting vehicles and communications systems, this would require HamTV being turned on and off many times which is impractical, since HamTV requires astronaut intervention to do so.A possible solution to this would be to install a filter in series with the HamTV.This will result in a much cleaner spectrum but will also result in some signal loss.It will also delay the return of HamTV to the ISS as the filter is designed, flight certified and installed.It is no longer scheduled to fly on NG-19 but there are hopes to fly it ‘soonest’ once the filter is installed.Frank concluded his remarks about HamTV saying that it is disappointing to have this delay in returning it to space.

4. ARISS at recent conferences ham radio conventions & agency events – Oliver Amend, Armand Budzianowski , Others

At Oliver’s request, Frank spoke first about activities in Florida at the SPACE conference for educators.He said that 22 educators attended the ‘Educate the Educator’ workshop and were given SPARKI kits and lessons on how to use them.ARISS had a booth in the SPACE Exhibit Hall, allowed teachers to ask questions during an ARISS contact, and had a forum there.Frank said that that the SPARKI kit is now operational.

Oliver spoke about the Teachers Session by ESA at Nordwyck.Micol and Oliver attended. Dave Honus, too.He spoke about SSTV.The conference can be viewed on YouTube.Armand’s 3 minute video about ARISS was well received.Teachers were interested in the video.ARISS was mentioned in several presentations.Oliver gave ‘big thanks’ to Armand and Micol.Micol added that she will be running a summer camp at the end of July.There will be five days of activities focused on a space theme.
 
AOB  (Any Other Business) 
    There was no AOB.
 
Next Meeting     August 15, 2023   1100 UTC 

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
June 20, 2023 – 1100 UTC
 
Participants  
 
Oliver Amend
Fabio Azzarello    
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo         
Ana Guzman 
Bertus Husken
David Jordan  
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Ciaran Morgan
Jan Poppeliers
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Alexandra Tussing   
 
 
Meeting Agenda
 
Roll Call—Rosalie White, K1STO
 
Rosalie took attendance by recording the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
 
Welcome—Oliver Amend, DG6BCE          
 
Oliver welcomed and thanked everyone for attending today’s meeting.  He presided, reporting that Frank and Martha are traveling to an educator conference at Kennedy Space Center, for ARISS. Oliver thanked Rosalie for taking the minutes at this meeting.   
 
             
1.   Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Oliver Amend, DG6BCE & Rosalie White, K1STO [Decisional]
           
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on May 16, 2023, Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates.  Rosalie asked if anyone had comments regarding those minutes. With nothing heard, she asked for a motion on the minutes. Stefan Dombrowski moved to accept the minutes; Ciaran Morgan seconded the motion. Hearing no objections, Rosalie stated the minutes were adopted and Carol Jackson would post the file on the ARISS-I web page.
 
 
2.  Axiom 2 Status Update – Oliver Amend, DG6BCE  [Informational]
           
Oliver gave a summary of the ARISS portions of the Axiom-2 mission and its four private astronauts, all with amateur radio licenses. Three of them supported ARISS activities; Peggy Whitson needed to focus on her duties as mission commander. John Shoffner, KO4MJC supported two ARISS school contacts—one was for youth with major medical issues at the Children’s Inn at NIH in Bethesda, MD. The other ARISS contact was for the Middlesboro Middle School in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Saudi crew members Ali Alqarni, 7Z1AJ and Rayyanah Barnawi, 7Z1RB supported an ARISS contact with youth invited to the Saudi Space Commission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John Shoffner pleased a large number of ham radio operators when he got on the air to talk to many hams around the world. Oliver said the ARISS team implemented lessons learned from the Axiom-1 mission and so this second mission was easier.  The ARISS-International Officers concluded this mission was a success and they thanked all ARISS team members who worked on Axiom activities.
 
 
3.  40th Anniversary Celebration Status – Oliver Amend, DG6BCE [Informational]
 
Oliver showed a meeting chart for this topic, displaying an image of the new 40th anniversary poster. It depicts scenes and facts from the past 40 years of amateur radio on space vehicles. The ARISS-International Board would like to hear more ideas for the 40th anniversary celebration. They ask everyone on the ARISS team to volunteer in some way for the events—please email comments to Astro-hams-40yrs@ariss-i.org.  Oliver commented on celebration activities as follows.
 

• The targeted timeframe is early 2024. The first week of February seems best for the majority of the ARISS team. Location is the Kennedy Space Center area.

 
The planning is still under discussion, the following schedule concept is an example and not yet confirmed:
 

• Tuesday and Wednesday (TBC): ARISS-I Annual Meeting. It is hoped that many ARISS team members can attend.  

 

• Thursday and Friday (TBC): two-day ham radio conference featuring 40-year celebration activities. Crewmembers who supported amateur radio contacts on Shuttle, Mir, and ISS missions will be invited and asked to give talks; some crewmembers have already been invited. This conference is for everyone who has participated in the 40 years of amateur radio on space vehicles—and for ideas on the future. A variety of topics will be discussed and presentations given. The conference will be open to the public.  

 

• Friday evening (TBC): ARISS Gala Dinner for everyone

 

• Saturday and Sunday (TBC): ARISS Educate the Educator workshop for teachers to learn how to use the SPARKI (Space Pioneers Amateur Radio Kit Initiative) Kit in a classroom. (if possible to manage)

 
At each upcoming ARISS-International meeting, the team will hear updates on all of these activities. Please volunteer.
 
 
Any Other Business
 
Oliver asked Sergey Samburov about the resumption of SSTV sessions. Sergey said a cargo vehicle is scheduled tentatively to launch in the second half of August. If the schedule stays firm, and depending on crew time, he plans a first SSTV session in September. Sergey wants to have two SSTV sessions for the 40th anniversary before January 2024.  He said the team should start working together on images, now. He will provide Mir images and Frank had said he would lead the team on the overall complement of images.
 
Oliver thanked everyone for participating in today’s meeting. He thanked the interpreter Alexandra Tussing, and he thanked Ana Guzman for setting up the GoToMeeting.  
 
The next ARISS-International telecon meeting will be July 18, 2023 at 1100 UTC.  

Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
May 16, 2023
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
 
Participants:  
 
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer 
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Gianpietro Ferrario
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
Dave Jordan
Keigo Komuro 
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Will Merchant
Ciaran Morgan 
Martha Muir
Kenneth Ransom 
Sergey Samburov 
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor 
Rosalie White 
Satoshi Yasuda

Interpreter:  Olga Kornyushyna
 
Meeting Agenda  
 
Roll Call—Martha took attendance by using the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO 
          Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.  He was excited to have participated in the first Face to Face meeting in three years last month.  It is important to get together with everyone like that.  Thanks to the European team for hosting us, especially Oliver for organizing the meetings.  

1.  Face to Face 2023 Wrap Up – Oliver Amend

[Informational]
 
Oliver said that he was glad to have the Face to Face meeting this year in Noordwijk.  Jörg Hahn and Dave Honess welcomed us to ESTEC.  It was sad not to have the camaraderie of our Canadian colleagues on site.  It was sad not to have Sergey join us, either. 
We talked about Axiom 2 and 3. This reminded us that we are an international organization.  We talked about ARISS 2.0, the future of ARISS.  Please send feedback about ARISS 2.0 to the ARISS-I officers.   Randy gave an interesting presentation on ARISS engineering.  Phil Crumb presented the digital radio communicator for the ISS.   We are now working with partners – Gateway and different space agencies for future developments and operations in cislunar space.
We talked about the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of human spaceflight.  Thanks for everyone who has sent in ideas for the celebrations.
No committees were organized and no voting was needed.  Presentations are in the dropbox:  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/kb8yb57hw7qa0xsomsiqv/h?dl=0&rlkey=ewytru0n7177hawg10egulttt. 
Thanks to Eric for creating the patch for the meeting at Noordwijk.  The patch will be mailed to the participants who were not on site.  Thanks to Graham for operating QO-100 on the deck outside the restaurant.  It caught the interest of ESTEC employees. 
Frank:  “Oliver, you did a great job.”  We do have the dropbox available.  It contains the agenda, reports, presentations, and photos. 
        
      2.  Update on HamTV – Frank Bauer
[Informational]
 
Frank said the the HamTV unit was delivered to NASA for flight onboard the Northrup-Grumman 19 flight which is scheduled to fly no earlier than July 7.  Spectrum tests on the unit revealed that the noise floor does get raised in visiting vehicles.  We will have to turn off HamTV when visiting vehicles dock or undock from the ISS.  This should not be a huge issue.  We are working with the spectrum management team on HamTV is in use while the Russian EKTC is operational.  It appears that issue depends on what and where the visiting vehicle is docked.  This is still a work in progress.  We will continue to work with NASA on this. 

         3.  40th Anniversary of Ham Radio in Human Space Flight – Frank Bauer
[Informational]
 
          Frank showed a poster made for the 40th anniversary celebration. See: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7erd02ike4ljmrr/40th%20Anniversary%20Poster%20Concept%2024x36%20v3.jpg?dl=0  In December of 1983 Owen Garriott made the first ham radio communication from the space shuttle.  This led to SAREX, MIREX, and ARISS.
In early 2024, we will have a conference and celebration at or near the Kennedy Space Center.Current plans include a two day ARISS-I
meeting and then a two day 40th Anniversary Conference.  Finally, there will be a one day tour of the Kennedy Space Center area.  Frank said he has contacted Richard Garriott and will work with him to schedule the dates for all of this.  Frank will let everyone know the dates at the next ARISS-I meeting. 
Frank has set up a special email address for volunteers and sponsors to use for this celebration:Astro-hams-40yrs@ariss-i.org. It is
important to get sponsors to help pay for the costs of this.  Sponsors will be listed in a booklet to be handed out at the gala.  We will also need a number of volunteers to do things in preparation for this big event.  We need to set up a sub-committee with at least one person per region on it.  Oliver pointed out that this is not a regional activity but an international one.  The more participation, the richer the experience. 
 
 
Any Other Business
 
          -Will Marchant asked Sergey if there is any news on SSTV.  Sergey responded that they have a plan to deliver to the ISS in August a replacement for an adapter that broke which would mean there could be more images sent down in September but schedules are subject to change. 
          -Graham asked how to continue the work on the digital communicator.  Frank suggested they set up a meeting of folks to talk about this.  Perhaps they will meet twice a month (or more often). 
          -Oliver announced that Francesco is now serving as president of AMSAT-Italia, taking over for Emanuelle.  He expressed thanks to Emanuelle for his years of service to AMSAT-Italia and congratulations to Francesco. 
          -Frank said that some of us are heading to Hamvention, the world’s largest gathering of Amateur Radio operators.  ARISS has a booth there and will host a major forum and some mini-forums on education, engineering, and spaceflight operations. 
          -Axiom 2’s flight is scheduled for May 21.  There will be four licensed Amateur Radio operators onboard.  Peggy Whitson will be serving as commander of this mission and will not be getting on the radio.  John Shoffner is a long time ham and has two ARISS contacts scheduled and ‘more.’   There are two Saudi private astronauts onboard, both licensed with special Saudi callsigns, who will do two ARISS contacts with Saudi schools. 
          -Oliver announced that he is looking forward to Friedrichshafen in June.  ARISS will have a presence there including Oliver, Mic, and Francesco. 
          -Rosalie said that Christy Hunter will want to know if she needs to do a press release for the Axiom crew and when it will be released.  Frank said that Jim Reed is working with Axiom on what we can communicate about this.  Keep Frank and Kenneth in the loop about this.  It is good to know how to work with commercial space agencies.  Turn on and listen during the Axiom 2 flight. 
          -Glenn congratulated Frank on putting a lot of information (today’s meeting) into one hour!  Frank responded by saying that we are doing a lot of stuff!  It’s amazing how well we work together (as Sergey said).  We have many moving parts – we need to keep it going!
 
 
Next meeting:  June 20 at 1100 UTC. 
 
Thanks, Olga.

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
February 21, 2023 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Gaston Bertels
Armand Budzianowski
Emanuele D’Andria
Francesco De Paolis
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Diana Schuler
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Anna Boyer
 
Meeting Agenda
 
Roll Call—Martha took attendance by using the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer     
 
            Frank welcomed and thanked everyone for attending today’s meeting.  He said that there were lots of exciting things happening last month and lots of exciting things to come this month as well as in the months to come.  The Face to Face meeting is coming up in April.  Progress is being made on Ham TV recertification and flight and on the development and deployment of the ARISS Radio Kit (SPARKI). 
            The Axiom-2 flight is coming up and ARISS will be supporting some private astronaut contacts.  More details will come in future meetings.  Talks are also happening about ARISS operations on Axiom-3.   We need to continue to network and develop contacts with commercial space station organizations as that will be our future in Low Earth Orbit. 
 
1.   Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA [Decisional]
           
            For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on January 17, 2023, Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting.  Gaston made a motion to accept the minutes. Rosalie seconded that motion. The minutes were adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
 
2.  2023 Face to Face meeting status update – Oliver Amend  [Informational]
           
            Oliver reminded everyone that the F2F meeting will be held April 18 to April 20, with April 21 as a wrap up day.  Tuesday will focus on Welcome and Education.  Wednesday will focus on ARISS 2.0.  Thursday will be focused on special interest topics such as BATC, the British Amateur Television Club.
            Oliver is still working on hotel reservations.  He hopes to have all of that resolved within 24 hours.  He will send out details about hotels and transportation to ESA ESTEC Noordwijk site soon.  Oliver is still working with ESA to accommodate Sergey’s attendance at the F2F meeting.
 
3.  Introduction of new ARISS-USA Project Manager for STEREO – Frank Bauer [Informational]
 
            Frank introduced Diana Schuler as the new Project Manager for STEREO (Student and Teacher Education via Radio Experimentation and Operations).  The STEREO grant from ARDC pays for part of our contact operations costs, for teacher workshops and for the development and deployment of SPARKI (Space Pioneers Amateur Radio Kit Initiative).  The SPARKI ARISS Radio Kit will be given to schools and informal education organizations.  It includes lessons and equipment on waves, electronics, a self-contained SDR attached to a Raspberry Pi, and more.  There will be ‘teach the teachers’ workshops where teachers will learn about ARISS and about how to teach with the equipment in the kit.  We plan to roll out the SPARKI kit in June at a ARISS Education Workshop. 
            Diana said that she worked for NASA at the Johnson Space Center on the space shuttle and Artemis/Orion Cockpit Displays.  She spent a few years at NASA HQ working as the Deputy Chief Engineer on what is now called Artemis.  She came on board with ARISS in January.
 
4.  Ham TV Status – Frank Bauer [Informational]
 
            Frank showed an image of Samantha Christoferreti with the Ham TV system on the ISS.  Kaiser Italia shipped the repaired unit to NASA in late November.  This was then forwarded on to Kerry Banke.  Kerry has performed a battery of tests in his lab in San Diego to prepare the Ham TV unit for flight and to ensure it is functioning as it did before.  We are going to start out operating the system as it was last time it was on the ISS.  It will not be connected to the IORS yet, but we expect that to happen after we get permission to integrate Ham TV with the multi-voltage power supply.  Once that occurs, we will not have to share a power receptacle with other payloads.
            We are working with ISS National Lab and NASA to get the system launched on the Northrup-Grumman-19 (NG-19) cargo mission, which is currently scheduled for early May. 
            Frank showed a picture of Kenneth Ransom prepping the Ham TV system for astronaut training.  Frequency tests have been completed; we are waiting for the final report from NASA.  There is also testing to confirm a new HDMI camera will work with the Ham TV unit and an attached HDMI converter.  Testing has been done with the HAM TV unit alone, with the IORS, and with the HDMI converter/overlay unit.  All are working well.  As of February 2, the unit was delivered to NASA CMC (Cargo Manifesting) to be launched on NG-19.  We are currently finalizing the flight certification paperwork. It is working its way through the approval process; significant progress has been made towards getting it ready to fly. 
            Graham asked how much power the unit has.  Frank said no changes were made in the system from how it operated before so about 10 watts.  Gaston added ‘nominal power’ is 10 watts.  There is loss of power in the cable but gain from the antenna.  Frank said for more information, contact Kerry Banke, Lou McFadin, and Randy Berger.  Frank said that he is super excited to get this system back in operation. 
            Emanuele thanked Frank for taking care of this.  Rosalie said she would like to amplify Emanuele’s comments.  This is a huge project with a lot of parts to get this done.  Thanks.  Oliver added his thanks to ESA and NASA for getting the system down from the ISS and thanks to Kaiser Italia for taking care of repairing the unit.  Graham added that BATC and AMSAT-UK are working to re-establish the Ham TV reception facility at Goonhilly Ground Station in Cornwall, UK.  Hopefully, it will be completed in time for testing in April or May.    
            Frank summarized all this by saying this took an international effort to get this accomplished.  He is looking forward to the first video images to beam down from the fixed system.  (Ciaran raised his fists in excitement.)  We need to return borrowed equipment to Kaiser Italia, perhaps at the Face to Face meeting.
 
            Frank turned over the running of the meeting to Oliver.
 
5.  International Talent Release Forms – Oliver  [Informational]
 
            Oliver said that we are a volunteer group.  An important part of our operation is public relations.  We need signed talent release forms so that we can share photos and videos with our sponsors.  To get funding from NASA, ESA, and others, we need to send numbers about involvement and attendance AND photos.  If we want to please the crew, we should uplink images of the kids – for which we need the talent release forms. 
            Carol Jackson maintains the database of schools but has only about 10% of the talent release forms for them.  Mentors should aim to get the completed forms well before the contact.  Maybe 2-3 months before.
            This will be one of the topics at the Face-to-Face meeting.  We may set up a subcommittee to deal with this.  Bertus recommended that we include the talent release forms with the submission of the questions. Stefan said that 1) we need talent release forms from photographers and 2) European talent release forms should be stored in Europe.  We should keep records if the schools have sent them in.
            Oliver summarized this by asking everyone to send their ideas about this to the ARISS-I officers.  Any input is welcome.
 
Any Other Business
 
            Oliver pointed out that there are time changes coming in the US and in Europe.  The March meeting will begin at 1100 UTC. 
 
            Oliver thanked everyone for their participation in today’s meeting.  Sergey sent his thanks to everyone.
 

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
January 17, 2023 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants:
Oliver Amend  
Frank Bauer 
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Keigo Komuro 
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan 
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan  
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Jim Reed
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville 
Dave Taylor
Satoshi Yasuda 
 
Interpreter:  Rita deHart
 
Meeting Agenda  
 
Roll Call—Martha took attendance by using the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer      
            Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and stated that ARISS accomplished a lot in 2022!  It is exciting to know that we have such outstanding volunteers working as a solid team from all five ARISS regions (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, and Europe).  It is exciting to see the breadth and depth of what we are accomplishing in education, in human space flight and in amateur radio.  We act as one.  ISS National Lab and NASA recognized ARISS as a top research and education outreach entity in 2022.
          
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA  [Decisional]
            For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on December 20, 2022, Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting.  Stefan made a motion to accept the minutes. Darin seconded that motion. The minutes were adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
 
2. 2023 Face to Face meeting status update – Oliver Amend  [Informational]
Oliver reminded everyone that the 2023 Face to Face meeting will happen from the 18th of April through the 20th of April.  He requests input of items to put on the conference agenda be submitted now or via email.  The agenda shows three days of meetings but we may extend into Friday (April 21) to wrap up discussions.
Ciaran stated that Phil Crump has offered to come to the conference to talk about HamTV if we want.  Frank said that would be good.
Glenn asked about a list of hotels for the conference.  Oliver said he will send that list soon.
Frank said that delegates and officers should reserve Friday, April 21, for strategic discussions of ARISS 2.0.  They should adjust their travel plans to stay at the conference through Friday.  Oliver stated that ARISS 2.0 is an important concept to discuss.
Regarding ARISS 2.0, Frank said that we are now being called an ISS implementation partner by ISS NL and by NASA.  As a ‘facility’ (or implementation partner) on the ISS, ARISS will sometimes be asked by outside organizations to “implement” STEM education opportunities (school contacts) or employ our on-board systems to perform experiments.  Some of these activities will totally align with our interests. And some might not. MarconISSta from TU Berlin is an example of one experiment that aligned with our interests. We are actively working with Axiom now to host school contacts and, hopefully, to include our hardware systems on their Space Station Modules.  We also see that folks want to use our antennas to receive various signals. The important question we need to ask is:  How do we prioritize these opportunities in the future?  Which do we select?  In some cases, will we have a choice? How will we staff the hardware integration effort required?  Or the operations infrastructure needed?
  Oliver said that ARISS-I will discuss these aspects on the F2F meeting.
 
3. Social Media – Jim Reed ARISS-USA Social Media  [Informational]
Jim stated that he is the new social media leader for ARISS-USA.He wants to coordinate and standardize social media posts across all regions.
Social media views have increased five-fold recently.His focus in his posts are student contacts, fundraising, and volunteering.
Twitter is the most popular platform for ARISS.Facebook is the second most popular platform with 8500 followers.Instagram has 500 followers.Mastadon also has 500 followers.
We need to standardize what we call ourselves on different platforms.Twitter will refer to us as ARISS-Intl, for ARISS-International.He wants to reserve ARISS Space and ARISS STEM for non-ARISS and educational activities.
Jim said that he is glad to work with the team to maintain a standard branding name.Frank thanked Jim.Glenn thanked him for this great presentation.He continued by saying that you (Jim) want more content for all five ARISS regions.How do we do that?Jim replied that each region should start posting local info about school contacts and this can be picked up internationally.

AOB  (Any Other Business) 
  Frank said that Rosalie compiled a Quarterly Report for our sponsors that Frank presented to NASA last week.  That document contained many great photos of happy, excited, and engaged students, however, we cannot share these photos unless we have signed media/talent release forms on file for each student in those photos. 
In each quarterly report, we usually focus on two US schools and two international schools.  Look at all the educational activities going on!  You can see the excitement in the faces of the students at the British School in the Netherlands, the St. Lucia Convent schools, and at the Argentine school in Antarctica.  Many times we don’t have signed media release form for contacts like these. This means we can’t post those photos on social media sites, in documents for our sponsors, or materials that help us better communicate our program to others.  Please encourage your region’s schools to send signed Talent Release forms in to correct this situation.  The release forms are available on the ARISS web page. 
 
Frank thanked Rita for being the interpreter for this meeting.   He concluded the meeting by saying “Stay safe. I look forward to seeing you on the 21st of February.”
 
Next Meeting     February 21, 2023   1200 UTC 

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