Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
May 17, 2022 – 1100 UTC
Participants:
Frank Bauer
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
Keigo Komuro
Chet Latawiec
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Unable to attend:
Oliver Amend
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Gaston Bertels
Armand Budzianowski
Darin Cowan
Emanuele D’Andria
Rita DeHart
Francesco De Paolis
Martin Diggins
Gianpietro Ferrario
Ana Guzman
Bruce Hunter
Tony Hutchison
David Jordan
Peter Kofler
Michel Nawrocki
Ken Nichols
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Marty Schulman
Mark Steiner
Masanobu Tsuji
Interpreter: Anya Ezhevskaya
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 said that many in North America are getting ready to go to Xenia, Ohio, for Hamvention, the largest ham radio convention in North America. He’s looking forward to seeing many folks in person for over two years and looking forward to the ARISS team meeting in person next year.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on April 19, 2022 Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Rosalie had a suggested change about the SSTV event and Armand had sent in an adjustment about the team working on the awards for that event. Given those changes, Dave Taylor made a motion to accept the minutes. Rosalie seconded that motion. The minutes was adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage with those adjustments.
2. Axiom-1: Lessons Learned - Frank Bauer
[Informational]
Frank said that he had received many great comments from ARISS team members involved in the Axiom-1 (Ax-1) contacts. Frank, Ana, and Kenneth combined the comments into a one page official ‘lessons learned’ document for NASA.
Frank attended a virtual meeting with Axiom on Ax-1. He offered to them some suggestions to improve our collaboration and operations for future Axiom private astronaut missions.
Suggested improvements included some changes to the ARISS facility Payload Integration Agreement (PIA). A segment of the PIA documents agreements between ARISS, Axiom and NASA on Axiom private astronaut missions. Specifically, the ARISS team recommended a preflight communications briefing to best articulate ARISS operations processes and how with Private astronauts and their teams would engage. Another salient point was to limit the number of school contacts to be performed during the shorter 7-10 day missions. For Ax-1 ARISS conducted 6 contacts. 3 contacts for these short-duration missions was recommended. The lessons learned meeting with Axiom is scheduled for May 25.
In addition, Frank, Kenneth, Ana, and ARISS-USA Director of Engineering Randy Berger, plan to meet with Axiom sometime in the future at their facility in Houston. Axiom is one of the first commercial space stations – an important future initiative as part of ARISS 2.0. Glenn commented that this is an important document that deals with many of the issues we experienced. He will share these comments with his team.
3. Reminder of Ear to Ear Meeting – Frank Bauer
Frank referred everyone to Oliver’s chart about the Ear to Ear meeting, which will be held from July 17 to July 22. Everyone was reminded to generate and submit regional and committee reports in advance of these meetings.
Each region delegation is to create a report.
Committee reports expected include:
- Public relations: Dave Jordan
- Operations: Frank
- Sustainability and Funding: Frank
- Technical Support and Evaluation: Oliver
- Ad Hoc Awards: Armand
- Ad Hoc Ham TV: Gaston
- Ad Hoc SSTV Experiment Team: Oliver
All reports are due by July 5 so that we can distribute them to everyone to read in advance of the Ear to Ear meetings. This will help all get up to speed on what is happening in ARISS and will allow us to focus our discussions on more strategic efforts.
4. IARU Frequency Coordination – Frank Bauer
Frank said that ARISS received a request from the IARU satellite frequency coordinator lead, Hans Timmerman, about our ARISS frequencies. The intent was to ensure there is no conflict with the frequencies that the Chinese space station plan to use. He gave this confidential information to Hans, with assurance that the IARU team will keep this data private and just to use it to resolve the frequency issues with the Chinese space station. Frank said that he is glad that the IARU reached out to us for this info. If anyone hears about the frequencies that the Chinese space station will use, please let Frank and the ARISS ops team know.
5. Upcoming Deployment and Testing of 6 CubeSats – Sergey Samburov
Sergey effusively greeted everyone on this telecon. He said that he anticipates a big activity with the Southwest State University in Kursk. Six CubeSats are already on the ISS. Two more will go up in July. These are Tsiolkovsky satellites, named in honor of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and will mark his 165th birthday.
The first six satellites are being prepped for deployment. They will be running tests on these satellites as they are flying over Kursk and parts of Europe. Sergey will let folks know when these tests are being conducted.
Frank thanked Sergey for this info and asked him to be sure to let ARISS-I members know when the tests are being conducted so that they can listen in on the tests. Frank also asked Sergey about the next SSTV event. Lou asked about the format of the SSTV images. Sergey replied that they generally use PD 120 for downlink and JPEG for image development.
Frank said that there are plans to install the new radio in the Russian Service Module on May 25 and suggested that maybe we can set one radio up in packet mode and the other in voice repeater mode. Sergey said that sounded like a good idea.
Any Other Business
Frank thanked everyone ‘for all you do for ARISS.’ It is great to see your impact on schools around the world.
Frank thanked Anya for her interpretation.
Next meeting: June 21, 2022
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
May 17, 2022 – 1100 UTC
Participants:
Frank Bauer
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
Keigo Komuro
Chet Latawiec
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
Unable to attend:
Oliver Amend
Fabio Azzarello
Kerry Banke
Gaston Bertels
Armand Budzianowski
Darin Cowan
Emanuele D’Andria
Rita DeHart
Francesco De Paolis
Martin Diggins
Gianpietro Ferrario
Ana Guzman
Bruce Hunter
Tony Hutchison
David Jordan
Peter Kofler
Michel Nawrocki
Ken Nichols
Gordon Scannell
Graham Shirville
Marty Schulman
Mark Steiner
Masanobu Tsuji
Interpreter: Anya Ezhevskaya
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 said that many in North America are getting ready to go to Xenia, Ohio, for Hamvention, the largest ham radio convention in North America. He’s looking forward to seeing many folks in person for over two years and looking forward to the ARISS team meeting in person next year.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on April 19, 2022 Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Rosalie had a suggested change about the SSTV event and Armand had sent in an adjustment about the team working on the awards for that event. Given those changes, Dave Taylor made a motion to accept the minutes. Rosalie seconded that motion. The minutes was adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage with those adjustments.
2. Axiom-1: Lessons Learned - Frank Bauer
[Informational]
Frank said that he had received many great comments from ARISS team members involved in the Axiom-1 (Ax-1) contacts. Frank, Ana, and Kenneth combined the comments into a one page official ‘lessons learned’ document for NASA.
Frank attended a virtual meeting with Axiom on Ax-1. He offered to them some suggestions to improve our collaboration and operations for future Axiom private astronaut missions.
Suggested improvements included some changes to the ARISS facility Payload Integration Agreement (PIA). A segment of the PIA documents agreements between ARISS, Axiom and NASA on Axiom private astronaut missions. Specifically, the ARISS team recommended a preflight communications briefing to best articulate ARISS operations processes and how with Private astronauts and their teams would engage. Another salient point was to limit the number of school contacts to be performed during the shorter 7-10 day missions. For Ax-1 ARISS conducted 6 contacts. 3 contacts for these short-duration missions was recommended. The lessons learned meeting with Axiom is scheduled for May 25.
In addition, Frank, Kenneth, Ana, and ARISS-USA Director of Engineering Randy Berger, plan to meet with Axiom sometime in the future at their facility in Houston. Axiom is one of the first commercial space stations – an important future initiative as part of ARISS 2.0. Glenn commented that this is an important document that deals with many of the issues we experienced. He will share these comments with his team.
3. Reminder of Ear to Ear Meeting – Frank Bauer
Frank referred everyone to Oliver’s chart about the Ear to Ear meeting, which will be held from July 17 to July 22. Everyone was reminded to generate and submit regional and committee reports in advance of these meetings.
Each region delegation is to create a report.
Committee reports expected include:
- Public relations: Dave Jordan
- Operations: Frank
- Sustainability and Funding: Frank
- Technical Support and Evaluation: Oliver
- Ad Hoc Awards: Armand
- Ad Hoc Ham TV: Gaston
- Ad Hoc SSTV Experiment Team: Oliver
All reports are due by July 5 so that we can distribute them to everyone to read in advance of the Ear to Ear meetings. This will help all get up to speed on what is happening in ARISS and will allow us to focus our discussions on more strategic efforts.
4. IARU Frequency Coordination – Frank Bauer
Frank said that ARISS received a request from the IARU satellite frequency coordinator lead, Hans Timmerman, about our ARISS frequencies. The intent was to ensure there is no conflict with the frequencies that the Chinese space station plan to use. He gave this confidential information to Hans, with assurance that the IARU team will keep this data private and just to use it to resolve the frequency issues with the Chinese space station. Frank said that he is glad that the IARU reached out to us for this info. If anyone hears about the frequencies that the Chinese space station will use, please let Frank and the ARISS ops team know.
5. Upcoming Deployment and Testing of 6 CubeSats – Sergey Samburov
Sergey effusively greeted everyone on this telecon. He said that he anticipates a big activity with the Southwest State University in Kursk. Six CubeSats are already on the ISS. Two more will go up in July. These are Tsiolkovsky satellites, named in honor of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and will mark his 165th birthday.
The first six satellites are being prepped for deployment. They will be running tests on these satellites as they are flying over Kursk and parts of Europe. Sergey will let folks know when these tests are being conducted.
Frank thanked Sergey for this info and asked him to be sure to let ARISS-I members know when the tests are being conducted so that they can listen in on the tests. Frank also asked Sergey about the next SSTV event. Lou asked about the format of the SSTV images. Sergey replied that they generally use PD 120 for downlink and JPEG for image development.
Frank said that there are plans to install the new radio in the Russian Service Module on May 25 and suggested that maybe we can set one radio up in packet mode and the other in voice repeater mode. Sergey said that sounded like a good idea.
Any Other Business
Frank thanked everyone ‘for all you do for ARISS.’ It is great to see your impact on schools around the world.
Frank thanked Anya for her interpretation.
Next meeting: June 21, 2022
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