ARISS International Teleconference

Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 11:15 UTC (7:15 am ET)

Participants:

Sergey Samburov

Rosalie White

Mark Steiner

Larry Agabekov

Keigo Komuro

Masanobu Tsuji

Ken Nichols

Gaston Bertels

Lou McFadin

Keith Pugh

Carlos Eavis

Ken Pulfer

Carol Jackson

Fabiano Moser

Will Marchant

Kenneth Ransom

Mark Severance

Maurice André Vigneault

Ed Pritchard

Ginny Stephenson

Interpreter, Mark Leybovich

Not Present:

Robin Haighton

Graham Shirville

Daniel Lamoureux

Tom Clark

Tadeu Fernandes

Bill Boston

ARISS I Agenda:

Administrative Session

1. ARISS-I Face to Face Meeting, June 2009, Presenter: G. Bertels

Gaston provided an up to date list of planned attendees, which can be found at www.ariss-eu.org (click on the X at the right hand bottom of the page). He has a tentative agenda, but is anticipating updates from today’s telecon as well as perhaps other items. He noted that there will be a joint meeting between ARISS-I delegates and the members of the ARWG on Wednesday morning followed by a tour of ESTEC facilities that afternoon.

2. Committees to meet prior to the Annual Meeting, Presenter: R.

White Rosalie has asked for the committees to meet soon and get their reports to Gaston and Carol as soon as possible. The agenda is quite full already and we always seem to have more items than time to meet. The goal is to have the reports distributed prior to the meeting so meeting time is spent discussing the reports information rather than reading the reports themselves.

Gaston noted that we must vacate the meeting room by 1700 local time on Friday as there is another event that evening beginning at 1730.

3. Nomination Committee for election of Chairperson

Gaston informed the team that Daniel will not be able to attend the ESTEC meeting but that Robin Haighton will help with the nominations.

4. New business (administrative only)

Lou McFadin has not received any responses from current members of the Project Selection and Use Committee. The committee is responsible for reviewing equipment development proposals and then presenting a report to the ARISS-I delegates with a recommendation for approval or not. Lou will generate an email to the ARISS-I team with a full description of committee functions and individual responsibilities so the delegates can find members from their region to support this important function.

General Session

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

Gould Smith is helping Lou facilitate the operations of the SuitSat-2 development team, which is making great progress in bringing together the various parts of the hardware and software. Work remains to finalize the 400 baud telemetry stream. The team is working with the Kursk experiment team to finalize that interface and plans to include them in SuitSat-2. The team is looking forward to demonstrating some of the hardware and software at the Dayton Hamvention in May.

It is time for each region to prepare its 20 second voice greeting along with the list of CW calls to be included in the CW beacon. Lou will get the details out to the delegates later this week.

Gaston thanked the team for its great amount of hard work. He asked if the team would be able to demonstrate anything at the ARISS-I meeting at ESTEC this June, and Lou replied that he is hopeful to have hardware there to show the team.

6. New business

None.

The next international partners meeting will be Tuesday, May 19, 2009.

Respectfully submitted,

Mark Steiner, K3MS, for the ARISS Team