ARISS International Teleconference

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 11:15 UTC (7:15 am ET)
 

Participants:

Frank Bauer

Rosalie White

Mark Steiner

Larry Agabekov

Keigo Komuro

Masanobu Tsuji

Daniel Lamoureux

Ken Nichols

Gaston Bertels

Lou McFadin

Keith Pugh

Graham Shirville

Carlos Eavis

Miles Mann

Ken Pulfer

Carol Jackson

Stefan Wagener

Kenneth Ransom

Mark Severance

Interpreter, Angelique Brice

Not present:

Robin Haighton

Sergey Samburov

Dave Larsen

Tadeu Fernandes

Bill Boston, call in

ARISS I Agenda:

Administrative Session

1. Replacement of Ken Pulfer as RAC delegate to ARISS, Presenter: K. Pulfer/D. Lamoureux

It is with great regret that after many years of amateur radio activity, including involvement since the early days of amateur radio operations in space and the Radio Amateurs of Canada

(RAC), that Ken Pulfer announced his resignation from ARISS as one of the Canadian delegates. He is confident that Daniel Lamoureux, VP – National Affairs of RAC, will be a capable member of the ARISS team as his replacement as delegate. Frank expressed heartfelt appreciation for all of Ken’s efforts on behalf of the ARISS team, and welcomed Ken to stay involved as he is able and interested. Daniel’s appointment was accepted by the ARISS team.

2. ARISS-I Face to Face Meeting, Moscow, Status, Presenter: S. Samburov

Sergey was not in attendance, but Frank reported that Mark Severance met with Sergey while Mark was in Moscow in early October and discussed this topic. It looks as if the second or third week of June would work better, and most of today’s telecon attendees felt that those two weeks should work for them.

3. SuitSat-1 Certificates, Presenter: F. Bauer

No updates.

4. New Business (administrative only)

None.

General Session

5. SuitSat-2 Status, Presenter: L. McFadin

The team has completed the DSP boards, and it is anticipated that this will be the last revision. The internal housekeeping unit is in layout. The prototypes of the control unit are in fabrication. The RF portion is in prototype design. The solar panel mount prototype design has been completed.

Lou is waiting for inputs from Sergey for the IARU application.

6. Columbus Module Status, Presenter: G. Bertels

Both ARISS antennas were installed on the Columbus module on October 9, 2007. VSWR tests show good numbers. Qualification and performance testing continues on the flight identical units in parallel, and so far all is going well.

7. New business

None.

NOTE: Frank’s schedule has been rearranged, and he will be able to support Tuesday telecons in the future, so the ARISS telecons will return to the third Tuesday beginning in November. The next meeting will be November 20, 12:15 UTC.

Respectfully submitted,

Mark Steiner, K3MS, for the ARISS Team