- Roll Call — Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO
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
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