Inside baseball Not that any of this is secret, it is appreciated that it not be directly shared to the public. If questions come up from members however, you will have some idea of the long term plans of ARISS and its future in space. Mark, HDX snip-- (From Rosalie) Hi to all, A couple of you have emailed about CNN's story on Russia not being able to support the ISS after 2024. So I figured I'd email the committee. ARISS heard a couple of years ago that Russia was talking about this because of the annual support costs and their Service Module's age. You all probably remember when they knew they must have a small leak in their module and finally did a spacewalk to find the hole. Even before that, you'll remember I reported to the ARRL-ARISS Committee that ARISS was working with Axiom Space and other commercial space companies for future opportunities because of situations such as this one, and that the ISS couldn't last forever. NASA has been holding discussions on this for a long time and always planned on ISS activity until at least 2030 (Congress says they'll support until at least 2032, but with Russia, timing of their announcements is usually unknown. Our team will talk more about all this at our telecon next week. This week, Frank Bauer is at the annual ISS R&D Conference with all the bigwigs from the space industry. ARISS has an exhibit table and a major purpose of this conference is for the space industry to network. I'm sure he'll learn from NASA about this announcement. He called yesterday and said he's been networking with more private space companies, some of whom are interested in talking more. 73, Rosalie K1STO endsnip--