• 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

• 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

 

• 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

 

• 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

 

• 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

 

• 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.
  

• 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.