Slide 1 Improving International Collaboration and Teamwork Within the ARISS Working Group Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO ARISS Chairman ARISS Meeting at ESA ESTEC 3 April 2014

Slide 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

Slide 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

Slide 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 Francescos concernUS/NASA proposal process Last minute postponement of Sergeys 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

Slide 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

Slide 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 neighbors radio station, located in their bedroom, to make ARISS contacts Interoperable equipment across segments would improve coordination & could minimize school contact issues

Slide 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

Slide 8 Actions to Improve Coordination Regular ARISS-I Face to Face meetings Revamp ARISS Terms of ReferencesAdministrative & Committeesand USE THEM Regular committee meetings by telecon and Goto Meeting –Excellent modelHam 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