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Improving International Collaboration and Teamwork Within

the ARISS Working Group

Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDOARISS Chairman

ARISS Meeting at ESA ESTEC3 April 2014

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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