Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
April 19, 2022 – 1100 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Armand Budzianowski
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Keigo Komuro
Chet Latawiec
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Marty Schulman
Dave Taylor
Masanobu Tsuji
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Unable to attend:
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Gaston Bertels
Emanuele D’Andria
Rita DeHart
Francesco De Paolis
Martin Diggins
Gianpietro Ferrario
Ana Guzman
Bruce Hunter
Tony Hutchison
Peter Kofler
Michel Nawrocki
Eric Oosterbaan
Sergey Samburov
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Mark Steiner
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 let everyone know that he had received the sad news that Gaston Bertels’ wife, Miriam, had passed away on Monday. They had been married for over 67 years.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on March 15, 2022 Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Rosalie made a motion to accept the minutes. Darin seconded that motion. The minutes was adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
2. Ear to Ear International Meeting in 2022 - Oliver Amend
[Informational]
Oliver stated that the feedback we received for the Ear to Ear meeting this year indicated that the third week in July is the preferred week. It will follow the same/similar schedule as last year, running from Tuesday to Friday. Possible topics to add include Continuation of SSTV Awards and Private astronaut flights. Delegates, if you have suggestions for other topics, please let the ARISS I officers know.
3. SSTV Cosmonautics Day/ Women In Space Event – Oliver Amend
[Informational]
Sergey is not available for today’s meeting so Oliver will direct the presentation of this topic. He first called upon Marty Schulman. Marty said that he adjusted the slides that were to be included in this event and sharpened the images and added in the background the flag of the country of the astronaut being featured. Next up was Will Marchant. Will said this was a short event, only 2 days long. As a result, the numbers are lower but the comments that came in are good. There was a good number of self-reporting students and teachers involved in this event. He congratulated everyone involved and supporting this event. Rosalie thanked Will for the available data. SSTV is a wonderful ARISS activity.
Frank reported that the timing of this event was scheduled to celebrate Cosmonautics Day (April 12). Schedulers had to work around the flight of Axiom-1, which had a couple of changes to its launch date.
Armand said that there were more than 1000 applications for awards for this event. He has not had time to analyze the data. He expressed thanks to
- ARISS Russia for bringing the event and transmitting the images.
- ARISS Ad-hoc Awards Committee members, for their fast cooperation on
arrangements of the ARISS SSTV award,
- To all the ARISS people involved in the event, especially those who made the
graphics, which were so well done that even with less than perfect reception,
their content was recognizable.
- Micol Ivancic IU2LXR and ISS FanClub for their good work on social media to
support the SSTV event and the ARISS SSTV award.
Frank thanked Armand and the team in Poland for their quick efforts to prepare the SSTV awards.
Oliver thanked Armand and his team for generating the awards. He thanked Marty for the modern looking images. He thanked Will for the data and comments. He thanked everyone involved in the program.
4. Axiom Flights – Frank Bauer
Frank presented an ARISS-Axiom-1 retrospective.Axiom-1 launched on April 8. Private astronauts Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe made 6 successful ARISS contacts with schools during their time on the ISS, a direct one in Israel and 5 telebridge contacts in Canada. These contacts were great but, but as with any new initiative, there were challenges.
Axiom is the first commercial company to send astronauts to the ISS. Axiom is building modules for the ISS that will have their own solar panels. These modules can become independent and decoupled from the ISS in the future, which is how human spaceflight in low earth orbit could evolve in the future. This would be part of the ARISS 2.0 mission.
There were a lot of lessons learned from the Axiom-1 flight. We need to decide on a future plan or if this is a one-time thing. We need to have a formal, signed document about our expectations and stick to it. Frank asked ARISS folks involved in the Axiom activity to please send to the ARISS-I officers their ‘lessons learned’ by one week from today.
Oliver said that the Eytan Stibbe’s contact with the Israeli school was his first time as a mentor. He learned a lot from the Canadian contacts which preceded the Israeli one. He gave thanks to Kenneth and Charlie for their help and for Charlie’s fast and accurate response in maintaining the Ops database. It was a good experience for us – we learned from this private company.
Kenneth said that operationally, things went pretty well. This short flight had them trying to cram a month’s worth of contacts in one week, which was especially challenging. Charlie had a lot to keep up with.
Rosalie thanked all the volunteers involved in this.
Chet said that the Axiom flight showed a transition from a government-run space program to working with a commercial entity - Axiom, SpaceX, and other private interests. We have to adapt to working with folks who work at lightningfast speeds. Frank responded saying that indeed we have a challenge to support. Dave Taylor said that we need to make it clear that we are providing an educational service for students, not a public outreach event. Shizuo said that we should support school contacts with private astronauts in the future.
Rosalie let the team know that Bruce Hunter passed along a media hit from a school in Canada that mentioned the ARISS program and Mark Pathy.
AOB (Any other business)
Frank thanked Shizuo for the information about the Chinese frequency coordination during last month’s ARISS-I meeting. Frank has been working with the IARU to avoid interference between the Chinese space station radio and the ARISS systems on the ISS.
Frank reports that, based upon his presentation at HamSCI and other organization’s requesting ARISS partnerships, there is interest in preforming ionosphere and space weather observations/transmissions on ISS using the high frequency bands, like 10 m and 20 m.
Oliver said that the SSTV Experiment Committee is planning for the next event which will be sometime between April and June. They will use the SSTV gallery.
There is an official ISS Facebook page.
Frank thanked everyone for attending this meeting.
The next meeting will begin at 1100 UTC on May 17, 2022.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
April 19, 2022 – 1100 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Armand Budzianowski
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Keigo Komuro
Chet Latawiec
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Marty Schulman
Dave Taylor
Masanobu Tsuji
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Unable to attend:
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Gaston Bertels
Emanuele D’Andria
Rita DeHart
Francesco De Paolis
Martin Diggins
Gianpietro Ferrario
Ana Guzman
Bruce Hunter
Tony Hutchison
Peter Kofler
Michel Nawrocki
Eric Oosterbaan
Sergey Samburov
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Mark Steiner
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 let everyone know that he had received the sad news that Gaston Bertels’ wife, Miriam, had passed away on Monday. They had been married for over 67 years.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on March 15, 2022 Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Rosalie made a motion to accept the minutes. Darin seconded that motion. The minutes was adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
2. Ear to Ear International Meeting in 2022 - Oliver Amend
[Informational]
Oliver stated that the feedback we received for the Ear to Ear meeting this year indicated that the third week in July is the preferred week. It will follow the same/similar schedule as last year, running from Tuesday to Friday. Possible topics to add include Continuation of SSTV Awards and Private astronaut flights. Delegates, if you have suggestions for other topics, please let the ARISS I officers know.
3. SSTV Cosmonautics Day/ Women In Space Event – Oliver Amend
[Informational]
Sergey is not available for today’s meeting so Oliver will direct the presentation of this topic. He first called upon Marty Schulman. Marty said that he adjusted the slides that were to be included in this event and sharpened the images and added in the background the flag of the country of the astronaut being featured. Next up was Will Marchant. Will said this was a short event, only 2 days long. As a result, the numbers are lower but the comments that came in are good. There was a good number of self-reporting students and teachers involved in this event. He congratulated everyone involved and supporting this event. Rosalie thanked Will for the available data. SSTV is a wonderful ARISS activity.
Frank reported that the timing of this event was scheduled to celebrate Cosmonautics Day (April 12). Schedulers had to work around the flight of Axiom-1, which had a couple of changes to its launch date.
Armand said that there were more than 1000 applications for awards for this event. He has not had time to analyze the data. He expressed thanks to
- ARISS Russia for bringing the event and transmitting the images.
- ARISS Ad-hoc Awards Committee members, for their fast cooperation on
arrangements of the ARISS SSTV award,
- To all the ARISS people involved in the event, especially those who made the
graphics, which were so well done that even with less than perfect reception,
their content was recognizable.
- Micol Ivancic IU2LXR and ISS FanClub for their good work on social media to
support the SSTV event and the ARISS SSTV award.
Frank thanked Armand and the team in Poland for their quick efforts to prepare the SSTV awards.
Oliver thanked Armand and his team for generating the awards. He thanked Marty for the modern looking images. He thanked Will for the data and comments. He thanked everyone involved in the program.
4. Axiom Flights – Frank Bauer
Frank presented an ARISS-Axiom-1 retrospective.Axiom-1 launched on April 8. Private astronauts Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe made 6 successful ARISS contacts with schools during their time on the ISS, a direct one in Israel and 5 telebridge contacts in Canada. These contacts were great but, but as with any new initiative, there were challenges.
Axiom is the first commercial company to send astronauts to the ISS. Axiom is building modules for the ISS that will have their own solar panels. These modules can become independent and decoupled from the ISS in the future, which is how human spaceflight in low earth orbit could evolve in the future. This would be part of the ARISS 2.0 mission.
There were a lot of lessons learned from the Axiom-1 flight. We need to decide on a future plan or if this is a one-time thing. We need to have a formal, signed document about our expectations and stick to it. Frank asked ARISS folks involved in the Axiom activity to please send to the ARISS-I officers their ‘lessons learned’ by one week from today.
Oliver said that the Eytan Stibbe’s contact with the Israeli school was his first time as a mentor. He learned a lot from the Canadian contacts which preceded the Israeli one. He gave thanks to Kenneth and Charlie for their help and for Charlie’s fast and accurate response in maintaining the Ops database. It was a good experience for us – we learned from this private company.
Kenneth said that operationally, things went pretty well. This short flight had them trying to cram a month’s worth of contacts in one week, which was especially challenging. Charlie had a lot to keep up with.
Rosalie thanked all the volunteers involved in this.
Chet said that the Axiom flight showed a transition from a government-run space program to working with a commercial entity - Axiom, SpaceX, and other private interests. We have to adapt to working with folks who work at lightningfast speeds. Frank responded saying that indeed we have a challenge to support. Dave Taylor said that we need to make it clear that we are providing an educational service for students, not a public outreach event. Shizuo said that we should support school contacts with private astronauts in the future.
Rosalie let the team know that Bruce Hunter passed along a media hit from a school in Canada that mentioned the ARISS program and Mark Pathy.
AOB (Any other business)
Frank thanked Shizuo for the information about the Chinese frequency coordination during last month’s ARISS-I meeting. Frank has been working with the IARU to avoid interference between the Chinese space station radio and the ARISS systems on the ISS.
Frank reports that, based upon his presentation at HamSCI and other organization’s requesting ARISS partnerships, there is interest in preforming ionosphere and space weather observations/transmissions on ISS using the high frequency bands, like 10 m and 20 m.
Oliver said that the SSTV Experiment Committee is planning for the next event which will be sometime between April and June. They will use the SSTV gallery.
There is an official ISS Facebook page.
Frank thanked everyone for attending this meeting.
The next meeting will begin at 1100 UTC on May 17, 2022.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary
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