Observations

1. Improving International Collaboration and Teamwork Within the ARISS Working GroupFrank H. Bauer, KA3HDOARISS ChairmanARISS Meeting at ESA ESTEC3 April 2014

2. Observations • ARISS has not had a face to face meeting since 2011 • In the past, ARISS held 1-2 meetings every 1.5 years • Face to face meetings foster information sharing, networking, strategic planning and serves as a major team milestone • We have experienced many changes & issues since 2011 • Change: ISS construction complete • Change: US proposal process • Change: New Ham TV Equipment • Issue: Service Module and Columbus Module Hardware • Issue: NASA Education Funding Losses • To sustain ARISS, we need to work very close as a team • Shows the space agencies that we can be effective in an international forum • If NASA and the other space agencies sees ARISS as too much of a burden, they will ask us to stop ARISS operations   • Teamwork minimizes overlap & maximizes volunteer support

3. What we Need • We need to ensure, through processes and frameworks, that individuals can bring up new ideas early.  • We need to ensure that these ideas go through the committees and get approved or denied through the full set of international delegates.   • We need to ensure that these processes and frameworks catch this early enough, before individuals and organizations spend time and money • We need to document the team roles and responsibilities and stick to them

4. Recent Examples Where Closer Coordination Could Have Helped (Page 1 of 3) US Examples • Telebridge Station coordination • ARISS-USA assumed this exclusive role during SAREX and never modifed it • Francesco’s concern—US/NASA proposal process • Last minute postponement of Sergey’s Technical Interchange Meeting at NASA JSC Europe Examples • While successful, Ham TV could be even better if, early-on, design was internationally coordinated Canada Examples • More international team collaboration beyond school operations

5. Recent Examples Where Closer Coordination Could Have Helped (Page 2 of 3) Russia Examples • Russian MAI 75 SSTV experiment conflicted with the Greece school group contact, our first ever school contact conflict on ISS • Closer coordination on development & installation of Kenwood D-710 • Kenwood frequency reprogramming • SSTV ops coordination would spread the word and improve educational benefit Japan Examples • More international team collaboration beyond school operations

6. Recent Examples Where Closer Coordination Could Have Helped (Page 3 of 3) Overall Examples • With station development complete, ISS crew members do not favor using equipment in other segments as they do not want to interfere with on-going work • Kenwood (Service Module) vs Ericsson (Columbus Module) • Concerns that crew member ham would be going into “neighbor’s” radio station, located in their bedroom, to make ARISS contacts • Interoperable equipment across segments would improve coordination & could minimize school contact issues

7. Some Examples of Excellent International Cooperation • Initial deployment of radio systems in service module • Service module antennas • AIS & ARISS VHF antennas • L/S band antennas on Columbus • S-Band beacon design • HAM-TV Teleconference • ARISS-I Teleconference • School group mentoring • Operations leadership

8. Actions to Improve Coordination • Regular ARISS-I Face to Face meetings • Revamp ARISS Terms of References—Administrative & Committees—and USE THEM • Regular committee meetings by telecon and Goto Meeting • Excellent model—Ham TV Telecon • Suggestions: School Selection, PS&U/Hardware planning, PR, Operations (outside weekly ops tagup) • Committee face to face meetings, including ISS Ham Technical Interchange Meetings • Fundraising • Compile all existing agency agreements and work with agencies on new agreements, as needed • Improve teamwork through international compromise