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Good evening everyone from the frigid ice palace
of Echo Mike 69. It's HamTalk Live episode number
151. Eris update recorded live on Thursday, January
31st, 2019. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9 VPG.
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Frank Bauer, KA -3 HDO, has been licensed since
1974 and in 1983 in preparation for the first
ever ham radio operation from space. He was responsible
for setting up and operating the worldwide retransmission
of space shuttle -aired ground communications
from the Goddard Amateur Radio Club station WA
-3NAN. This initiative provided a critical conduit
of information to hams attempting to contact
astronaut hams in the pre -internet era. Frank
now serves as the amateur radio on the International
Space Station International Chairman. Frank holds
a bachelor's and master's degree in aeronautics
and astronautics from Purdue University and his
career in aerospace fans spans four decades within
NASA and in the private industry. And he's the
2017 Dayton Hamvention amateur of the year. So
Frank, welcome back. Well, thank you, Neil. It's
great to be back. Yeah, it's been a while since
we've done an update here on some of the heiress
plans and wanted to talk a little bit about those.
So thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule
to come and talk to us a little bit about some
of this, and there's a lot going on. So first
off, let's talk about the upgrades to the equipment
on board the space station. We've got a new radio
project that's been going on and a power supply
for it and a new antenna going up. So why don't
you tell us all about that? Sure, I can. Actually,
we have We have seven different activities going
on in the hardware world It's been very interesting
but the probably the most important one is our
next generation radio system that we're going
to be flying we call it the Interoperable radio
system because basically what we want to do is
develop one what we are doing is developing One
system that can operate throughout space station.
In other words, we'll have a identical setup
in the Columbus module and an identical setup
in the Russian service module. That includes,
as you said, Neil, this multi -voltage power
supply, which is a really cool device being developed
by Kerry Banke and, of course, Lou McFadden,
our chief engineer, in that it's going to allow
us to... use multiple voltages on Space Station
and we have multiple capabilities that will allow
us to do more in the Columbus module than we
could before and substantial improvements or
enhancements for the future. So we can actually
plug in four different systems at the same time.
An important piece of that whole thing is, of
course, the radio, which is the JVC Kenwood D
-710GA that we've worked with Kenwood to modify
for flight. And I think combined, those systems
will provide a really outstanding platform on
both sides of the space station, on the Russian
and the US side. And then as a result, it'll
be a lot easier for the crew to be able to get
ready and do a contact. So all in all, I think
it's gonna be a phenomenal capability. So where
are we on that right now? I know you've had some
fundraising to do for that. Where are we on that
right now? Right now, you know, the interesting
part about this is we have to build 10 units.
If you think about it, we have to have two flight
units. I talked about one in the service module
and one in the Columbus module. We need to have
flight backups for each one of those. That's
four. Then we have to have training units for
multiple areas in the world, United States, Russia.
test and verify and things like that. So we're
building 10 units. The funding, I mean we're
spending a lot of money right now because the
parts that go along with this are not cheap.
We need to take some extensive travel down at
the NASA Johnson Space Center to do testing there.
Literally I have a whole bunch of emails today
on preparing for the testing. We have to go through
testing twice. We have to go through an engineering
unit, which we call a flight identical unit,
which is built now. And then once we've done
that, we're going to do a subset of testing with
the flight unit. And then the flight unit, both
flight units, the flight unit, we're going to
start with the one in the Columbus module, and
then we'll do the one in the Russian service
module. So that's all. You know, we're working
towards Trying to get this thing flown this year
if possible. So we you know, it's all a function
of you know, how the testing goes and you know
getting through the the safety certification
paperwork and all of that approving to NASA and
to Roscosmos the Russian Space Agency that our
unit has past all the engineering and safety
testing that verifies that it's ready for flight.
And if people want to help out with that process
they can donate at? Yeah, best place to do is
just go to the ARIS website www .aris .org. There's
a donate button there and we're doing it a couple
different ways. We have a fundraiser campaign.
That's it's part of that and then we also have
a Donate button that'll go right to the M set
PayPal all of the money that goes into a M set
for heiress goes directly to heiress hundred
percent. So Basically, that's it's very simple
just go to that donate button and and you should
be able to do it Okay, and then let's talk about
this new antenna going up in the Columbus module
Sure. So the Europeans are going to be doing
something similar to the Japanese have done.
They're putting a system around the outside of
the Columbus module so that they can put payloads
on there. And so to do that, some of the payloads
they want to fly are some RF payloads too. And
there's a feed -through that we're using right
now that has four, well, everyone that's listening
here knows all about antenna ports and the importance
of feed -throughs. There's a feed -through that
has the ability to put four pieces of coax through
it, if you will. And we're only using two of
them. We are in AIS antennas using it. They want
to use all four, and to do that means they've
got to disconnect the current antenna that we
have. So we've been working now with ESA and
NASA to get a new antenna, basically identical
to what we have, installed sometime late this
year when this payload system called Bartolomeo
gets launched. And so that's just another project
we're working on right now. We've got the antennas
built and ESA is supposed to be providing a clamp
that clamps the antenna to the handrail. And
then the feed line, the feed line because they
need to have a EVA or extra vehicular activity
space walk. Connector special connector on there
so that the crew that's in a in a spacesuit they
can actually install this so So ESA is provide
ESA NASA are providing that to us and then Sometime
late this year. We're going to be launching this
antenna. It should not be a big Very visible
I'll say to the ham radio community because the
intent is to disconnect and connect back up in
a couple days. But for us, it's a big deal in
that we're going through all the safety certification
for it as well as building it up and putting
on, you know, it's interesting because one of
the more expensive parts of this is a special
coating we got to put on the antenna. The antenna,
of course, needs to be safe. Basically, we've
got a measuring tape antenna, and the sharp edges
of the measuring tape, we put this Kapton tape
on it. But the Kapton tape, if you put it outside
for long periods of time, will deteriorate because
of atomic oxygen interaction. So we have to put
this special coating of silicon dioxide on it.
It's vacuum impregnated. to actually prevent
that from happening. So we're doing all these
things and these things are all expensive if
you will. So that's why we need those donations
I was talking about earlier. Now anytime you
have to go through, I've been through inspection
and anytime you have to go through NASA inspection,
it's going to take a while and it's not going
to be cheap. That's part of it. Okay. We've got
a lot of different modes going on. Let's talk
a little bit about the ham TV transmitter that's
actually being worked on. Yeah. So that's another,
that's another, I mentioned there's seven things.
Actually two of them are ham TV. One of them
is we just, uh, Brought back the ham TV unit
it it stopped. We don't know why and so on the
last SpaceX Dragon flight we were We basically
it's splashed down on the 13th of January and
so That is coming back and will be tested to
understand what the problems are At the same
time, we are looking at a HAM -TV2 system. So
if we can turn this around fast, that's fantastic.
But the other thing we are looking at is towards
the future. And can we use a higher resolution
HAM -TV capability? Can we use it to actually
transmit down high speed data that we might want
to transmit down with some student experiments?
So there's a number of things we're looking at
relative to both the current ham TV system and
Then also ham TV to so ham TV, you know current
system is back down It will be several weeks
before we get our hands, you know, they've got
a lot of Unpacking to do and transport back to
us. We should be seeing it in another couple
weeks from now and then We'll start the debugging
and try to understand whether we can quickly
turn it around. And then the packet system. You've
got some equipment up there and actually we got
a question in from Luciana Gasparini, PT9KK in
Brazil and said there's some new equipment stowed
on the ISS for APRS. Any chance? But that will
happen in the next eight weeks. He's working
on a dedicated iGate in Western Brazil just for
this. So what's going on with the packet system
and APRs? Well, I thank him. First off, I want
to thank him for doing that because we can use
all the capabilities as possible. Dedicated iGate
is a great thing to have. So it's interesting.
the beginning of the year, we were able to, we
call it UpMass, basically launch one of our packet
modules, one of our spare packet modules that
we had because the packet module stopped working.
It was intermittent for a while. And unfortunately,
we had a little bit of a hiccup because you know
what it's like when you lose your keys? Sometimes
it takes a little bit to find them, and then
all of a sudden you find them. When you're in
a microgravity environment, if you put something
in one place, it doesn't always stay there. Unfortunately,
that's what happened to our packet module. It
went missing for a little bit. I found out about
a week, within the past week that it was rediscovered,
I'll call it that, and we're being put on a list
to get the packet module installed. So I don't
know, I can't tell you for sure when that's gonna
happen, but I will say that if everything goes
well and the packet module works as expected,
I would say we should have it back up in the
eight weeks. that was described. Okay, very good.
And then you've got Lime SDR experiment that's
finishing up. So tell us a little bit about it.
Yes, that's a interesting experiment. It's called
Marconista. And it's, you know, like Marconi
ISSTA, if you will. And actually that... That
word, Marconista, means radio amateur in Italian.
So Marconista was an experiment that was proposed
by Martin Buscher, who's a student at the Technical
University of Berlin. And basically, like you
said, it's a LIME -SDR. It's a radio spectrum
experiment. Looking at the hand bands and they've
done some very interesting So basically what
they're looking at is 2 meters 70 centimeters
L band and s band they the antennas we have on
space station right now and so They've already
gotten some data and and and Martin is using
this actually He's getting his degree, you know
as part of this investigation they Have gotten
a lot of data now. I've seen a bit of it. It's
very intriguing I will let Martin, you know publish
out what he's planning on publishing out the
the data will be made available to Eris and Anyone
that wants to look at it. We're looking at trying
to get it on a on a website that is Public so
people could download this information once we
were able to to make sure we've got all of the
metadata there so that people aren't having to
ask 10 million questions about what all this
represents. The intent is that once this experiment
is over, which should be the end of February,
they'll be stowed away for a little bit, primarily
because the AstroPy, the RaspberryPy we're using,
needs to be used for another student experiment.
ESA student experiment, but our intent is to
utilize this again in the future and You know
to get some proposals of potential experiments,
so it's it's a pretty interesting capability
and we're pretty excited about it and And and
Martin Buescher is going to continue to work
with us on this thing, so it's a very interesting
Partnership, it's a great research project And
it could be a great resource for the ham community.
All right, we're going to switch gears from hardware
over to all the red tape. And in November, we
had a possibility that the space station wouldn't
have a crew because the rocket launch in Russia
failed and the expiration date on the return
vehicle was looming and we weren't sure what
was going to happen with heiress during that
time and Thankfully, they got a new crew up there
in time But I'm sure it brought up a lot of discussion
and planning for what would happen if and when
This happened and it may happen again So can
you tell us a little bit about maybe what to
expect if that ever would happen? Well, let me
let me let me start with you know When I say
we, the international community is going through
a transition right now, and a hunk of that transition
is happening in the United States. That has to
do with the fact that everybody knows that NASA
retired the space shuttle in 2011, and we're
on the cusp of being able to fly astronauts through
a commercial. The through commercial vehicles,
you know, the two main ones are are the SpaceX
Dragon vehicle and the the Boeing Crew capsule
also and so those are being ready to fly Hopefully
this year and that's a little bit of the I'll
say the rub, if you will, that's going on right
now is that because any new project always runs
into delays, I don't care if it's a space flight
project and it doesn't matter whose it is, industry,
NASA or whatever, they always run into delays.
It's not clear when exactly those flights will
happen. There are going to be situations where
Vehicle doesn't go as planned and and thank goodness
You know the two astronauts said that the cosmonaut
and astronaut that was on board Nick Hague on
the on the astronaut side Everything went It
didn't go as planned, but the abort system went
exactly as planned and the the individuals were
safe They're basically NASA and Roscosmos, the
Russian space agency, worked through the concerns
that went along with that and were able to fly
another set of crew fairly soon after that and
they didn't have a situation where the space
station had no crew on board. internationally
everyone wants to not have the space station
without a crew on it and that is an important
piece here and how that gets worked is I'll say
beyond my pay grade because I don't work on that
anymore but what I can tell you because of course
I had some insight being working at NASA is that
you know there are opportunities where they can
extend the crew I mean they can you mentioned
an expiration date well you know, there's margin
in some of these things and extending out longer
is an option. And so that's just one of the many
options we're looking at. But the most important
thing, and I'm going to go back to what I started
with, is we need to have a diverse set and robust
set of vehicles to fly because there's going
to be a problem here and there. And unfortunately,
We are down to one vehicle, that's Soyuz only.
And Soyuz is a phenomenal vehicle. But we all
need to have this diversity of vehicles. And
that's why NASA, when it started the Commercial
Crew Program, they didn't want to have one vehicle.
They wanted to have at least two. And there's
others out there that might make it three or
four in the future. But at least two that could
go into orbit and dock with Space Station. Does
that make sense? Yep. Yep. So hopefully it doesn't
happen. Well, yes, of course. We don't want that.
We do not want that to happen. So you asked about
how it would impact Eris. Well, Eris is primarily
a crew -tended capability. We're trying to change
that. That's a future thing, too, in that to
be able to command directly to our station and
do things like that. But our station is primarily
a crew -tended activity. So if the crew's not
there, they're not going to do contacts. And
whether we kept APRS on or not, that probably
would have to shut it down because we don't have
the ability to turn it off remotely, I'll say.
OK. All right, very good. Well, we are running
behind, but we've got so much to talk about.
So that's, uh, that's all right. But when we
come back, we're going to talk about bees in
space. So we'll talk about that and figure that
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before we do that, we want to talk about these
bees in space. So they're astrobees. Tell us
about that and how Ham Radio may tie into it.
Sure, Neil. Yeah, astrobees is a set of robotic
systems that are going to be operating on Space
Station being coordinated through the Ames Research
Center. And right now there are some robotic
vehicles. They're called SPHERES and CASIS, the
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space.
Has a program called first. I'm sorry zero robotics.
We're actually students do competition with these
fear spheres Satellites if you will there satellites
inside the space station The Astro bees are supposed
to be Like that but more companions to the crew
in other words being able to do different things
for the crew members We're starting to see robots
in stores and things like that now, you know,
internal the space station, you know, being a,
and then of course we've got Alexa and Siri and
things like that. Having something like that
on space stations is important. And so that's
what the primary purpose of these Astro -B robots
are. Now the interesting thing when you spheres
could only be in one module whereas these astra
be Robots which are you know about the size of
a little bit bigger than a CubeSat Okay, for
those that understand, you know how big a CubeSat
is What They can do is they can propel themselves
into different modules so if they can come into
this Columbus module, which is the case You know,
there could be an opportunity where ham radio
and these asterisks communicate with one another
and We do some different things with them and
so we've been in some preliminary discussions
with some of the folks at Ames and in cases about
these ideas and and We're you know, all I can
say is stay tuned we've got some meetings later
this year. So this is not going to happen this
year, but maybe next year or the year after.
Not sure yet. And it all is a function of whether
we can come up with an agreement that suits everybody.
But that's pretty much the idea. And it's a pretty
cool little device. And it has capabilities,
communication capabilities, that we can leverage
off of. All right. It sounds pretty cool. Some
of the things that you could actually do by,
you know, you could control it and it'll respond
somehow and that's pretty cool that you'd be
able to do that up in the space station. So hopefully
that will all... pan out. Well, let's get to
some of these questions here. First off, Jim
Wilson K5ND sent us a question. He wants to know,
when will approved ARIS contacts for the second
half of 2019 be announced? Oh, that's a good
question. Yeah, we are running a little longer
than normal this year. But let me just say that
we are on the cusp of making the announcement
I can't what we've publicly said is that before
the end of the Sorry by around the first of February
we would be making the announcement while we're
getting awful close to the first of February
and I would say with I would say within the week
we will make announcements on that so That's
probably the best thing to me to say. So again,
stay tuned, but it won't be too long, so. Yeah.
Okay, very good. And then Kevin Zeri, KK4YEL,
wrote in about some NASA on -the -air things
and says, how cool was it to work with the NASA
on -the -air group? And hams around the globe
were excited to receive those slow scan images.
And so tell us about the potential for retransmission
of those images. OK, well, let me just first
say NASA on the Air has been a really cool program.
I really applaud the whole team on what they've
done. We are trying to do our part. Airis is
trying to do our part and help them, enable them
to continue. describing the legacy or the history
of NASA and so in this we're going to have a
slow -scale television event that will have several
images from the note of team the NASA on the
air team as well as some specific historic items
associated with the image radio in space and
so that is going to occur February 8th To February
10th, so we're talking a little little more than
a week away You will there will be a press release.
It's literally being worked as we speak here
The plan is that we will use the similar Mode
sstv mode that we've been using in the past which
has been PD 120 and My understanding is we would
expect this to start on February 8th around 1825
UTC. So, um, it should be very interesting. I
think we've got eight, um, Noda images and, um,
uh, four, uh, human space flight, um, image radio
images in there. And so, uh, I think people will,
uh, will enjoy that. All right. So that's coming
up and, and you got to work with somebody really
cool like Kevin's area. Yeah. I give a shout
out to Kevin. I appreciate him and, uh, and,
and Scott and, uh, and Rob Suggs, uh, all, all
have been, uh, working with us pretty closely
on the SSTV activities. All right. Well, we had
to, we had to get Kevin in there, but, uh, you
know, those images, uh, there were some issues
and, and, you know, Working through those and
and so that'll be a great chance to try to catch
those again We've got some greetings from John
in for JTK from warm Orlando, Florida So thanks
for listening John and JD JJ 1 in JM says good
morning from Japan. So we've got an international
audience here about the International Space Station.
So if you have a question, give us a call. That
phone number is 812. 650 -9556. We have Frank
on here for a few more minutes tonight, so give
us a call. 812 -650 -9556 is the number to call
for this evening and we'll keep going here. We've
got a tweet from Patrick. WD9EWK says, nice to
hear Frank on and glad to hear the crew located
that replacement packet module and is hoping
that can get back on the air soon. I guess I
don't feel quite so bad now if I lose my keys.
They lost the packet module. They found it. It
was lost and has now been found. I will tell
you, I got to say some real kudos. Of course,
go to our Ares team and getting that packet module
done quickly. Also, our payload integration manager,
Juliet Tseng, really worked hard to make sure
we got on the progress flight when we did because
we were trying to get it up there as quickly
as possible. So, you know, we turned that around
in just a couple of months and that's pretty
cool if you think about it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, a
couple of months for the red tape alone is pretty
amazing. Very good stuff. All right. Well, let's
take one more standby here for calls at 812 -650
-9556 or you can tweet us. We've got several
of those coming in tonight. So let us know what
your questions are here while we have Frank before
he takes off yet again in the morning. I think
he's busier than I am, which is kind of scary.
Let's see, you know, we had this big, we hosted
here in the, I say we, the United States, the
International Ares Conference this year and I
know that cool dude Kevin Zeri was there too.
So tell us a little bit about that. I know there
was a whole lot going on and we don't have, you
know, a lot of time, but tell us a little bit
about hosting that and some of the things that
happened here this summer. Okay, yeah, I can
I mean one thing I want to say Because we did
do this both at the M set meeting as well as
at the heiress meeting in College Park, Maryland
It was great to have Serena, you know on the
air and she got on and said a few words to some
of the folks at the heiress meeting as well as
at the M set meeting and to hams all over the
world. It was phenomenal to see that. We haven't
had too many astronauts get on the air, and that
was great. The heiress meeting went very well.
We had individuals, of course, from all over
the world. And then another thing we did was
we had an education summit. So let me talk a
little bit about the ERIS meeting. One of the
things we're working on, a project that we're
working on, is looking at the Deep Space Gateway,
which is the next project in human spaceflight,
which is to actually bring people around the
vicinity of the Moon. And we had someone from
NASA present. on Gateway, very interested. They're
very interested in us being involved from an
education perspective, from an amateur radio
perspective. So we're working that. We've got
an exploration team that, ARIS has an exploration
team that's looking at what kind of antennas
we need and radios and both on the ground and
in space. So that was an interesting piece of
the ARIS meeting that we had. Of course, we talked
about the hardware systems, the interoperable
radio system, which will also, I didn't say this,
but we'll have a voice repeater on there too.
So I, you know, we'll have packet, we'll have
voice repeater and all kinds of things like that.
And then we had this education summit, which
was the first time we've ever done it. We brought
in educators from our education committee within
ARIS, as well as educators from around the vicinity
of Maryland, and also our two major, our two
organizations that provide funding for us, CASIS,
the Center for the Advancement of Science in
Space, and NASA's Space Communication Navigation
Organization. So they came in, brought in all
kinds of education ideas. The idea of the education
summit was to get our educators better. To better
understand what's going on in heiress because
they attended the heiress meeting what's going
on relative to Amongst themselves to improve
our overall Education outcomes that that we do
with heiress the more these teachers that That
have had an heiress contact can convey to other
teachers what it's like and some of the pitfalls
and the positives That just provides a better
opportunity every time we do these so all in
all Of course, I'm biased but all in all we had
a really good. We had a really good set of sessions
both internationally With the air speeding as
well as you know with the education summit Yeah,
I've heard heard all kinds of good comments about
both and so I think while you may be biased I
think you're still accurate so That's uh, that's
some good stuff and and we've got more school
contacts coming up and Jim K5 nd says he's got
his fingers crossed for the let's see which One
was it it was a scouting event and I scrolled
down the page World jamboree. Yes world jamboree
fingers crossed for that. So we'll Will know
soon, so yes, we will know soon I can't divulge
anything All right. Well, Frank, I know you've
got to catch a flight in the morning. So we will
get you out of here on time. But thanks so much
for coming back on the show again to update us
as we do from time to time and all kinds of cool
projects, both hardware and human stuff going
on. And appreciate your time and have a good
flight. And we'll catch you on here next time
and talk more about it. Okay, Neil. Well, thank
you very much for having the opportunity to share
what's going on in ARIS. As you can hear, there's
a lot of interesting and exciting things across
operations, across hardware development, across
education. And I just, you know, say one more
time, you know, we're trying to build these hardware
systems right now and keep this program going.
And any kind of donations anybody can provide
through the ARIS. website at the donate button
would be very much appreciated. And if you donate
over at AMSAT it's 100 % going over to the ARIS
as long as you click on that ARIS donate button.
So I would love to see that be taken care of
so that way that can get going and maybe this
year that sounds like a great opportunity and
a great timeline if that can actually get pulled
off by the end of the year. Alright, well thanks
Frank. Appreciate it and that is a wrap for this
week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to Frank
Bauer, KA3 HDO, and everyone out there in cyberspace
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