AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee Wednesday, August 6 from 12:30 to 15:30 PDT Mission Beach C Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA Teleconference: 605-475-4000, 591574# Agenda 12:30 12:40 13:10 13:20 13:35 13:45 14:00 15:15 15:25 15:30 Start meeting Welcome/Call to Order/Agenda Introduction of new members and guests AROUND THE “TABLE”-Any news, position changes, new members and guests welcome to contribute Review of minutes from Spring 2014 L.A. meeting ACTION ITEMS/RESPONSES Future Meeting Locations and Dates Discussion Conference Updates SPACE 2014 SMG Activities Subcommittee Reports a) Treasurer b) Education Student Design Competition Student Essay Competition Teacher STEM Awards STEM program? c) Science d) Awards e) Public Policy/CVD/Washington D.C. f) Website Membership Roster status and needs Action Item Review and Explosive Nut Close Meeting Carl Schueler All Samantha Infeld Carl Schueler Carl Schueler Peter A. Montgomery Shahzad Khaligh Mark Andraschko/ Bill Tomek Samantha Infeld Michele Brekke Jim Baker Chuck Lillie Shahzad Khaligh Hugh Cook Tim Sarver-Verhey Tim Sarver-Verhey Carl Scheuler All Around the Table Carl Scheuler, Schueler Consulting-Santa Barbara, SSTC chair Remote sensing, commercial hosting of payloads Experimental hosted payload program Brought launch of payloads cost down by factor of 10 Ron Kohl, Vice-chair of space colonization TC Reaching out to other TCs Samantha Infeld, Analytical Mechanics Associates, SSTC secretary SE for NASA Langley projects Integrated Design Center coordinator, building capability and a trained team 1 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Tim Sarver-Verhey, NASA Glenn, SSTC Membership and Website subcommittees chair In-space propulsion branch Supporting COMPASS as propulsion lead, seeing more micro-propulsion Supporting SE for electrical propulsion Peter Swan, President of international space elevator consortium Hugh Cook, Policy sub-committee chair Runs own company in Irvine. Works for air force and NASA – solar arrays Background in propulsion, mechanisms, structures Bill Tomek, NASA Langley Aerodynamics database development, experimental Uncertainty analysis Previous work on Ares, Orion Helping on student design competition Tim Howard Retired from Boeing Management consulting, and faculty for undergraduates in New Mexico Background in optical design for astrophysics Michelle Brekke Leading teacher grant awards Just retired from NASA Worked on shuttle and ISS, mission ops/ flight manager background Started own company, looking for first job in upcoming contracts Dan Kwon, Orbital Sciences, Vice-chair Formation flying, then military comsats, now launch vehicle Stratolaunch is the customer Chuck Lillie, Science subcommittee chair Retired from Northrop Astrophysicist, worked as SE Lead new business, including JWST Consulting for JWST follow-on – planning a flat budget that will periodically increase aperture and instrument capability Rick Gamble Just rolled-off missile systems lead, exploring other TCs Karen Barker, SMG deputy Long-time member 2 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Missiles, Athena launch vehicle, launch operations for large number of satellites, congressional fellow Current – test resources for launch vehicles and services Peter Montgomery, SMG director NASA KSC – transition to multi-user spaceport Supporting SLS and Orion Processing for missions, including MAVEN Dan Levack, Rocketdyne advanced concepts and technology Nicola Sarzi-Amade, Microcosm, Scorpius Chair of LALV Organizing conferences and tracks Microcosm – GPS/SBIR contract with Air Force for next gen GPS constellation Scorpius – launch vehicles with composite tanks for small s/c Space Tourism society Brij Agrawal, NPS 20 years at Comsat, then moved to faculty at Naval Postgraduate School to set up astronautics program s/c attitude control, more recently into optics Albert Glassman Retired, space intelligence GPS policy Jim Baker, former chair (phone/skype from Houston) Running Arrow Science and Technology- got more work recently, so had to stay there working with Carl to win Air Force hosted payload project supporting Orbital sciences with payload integration AIAA and the committee presented plaques for Jim’s service over the last 3 years Previous Actions All but last closed Discussion based on membership question: Tim - Track down more people to move to emeritus or remove Dan can ask - Stan Kennedy Nov. 1 is deadline to receive applications for new members (Carl or Tim should receive) Tim - Confirm that 2015 awards summary is on website Future Meetings 3 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Fall (Nov) and winter (Feb) 2014 not set Santa Barbara as an option because Carl (chair) is there, Orbital does work there (Dan, vice-chair’s company), ATK, etc., AIAA Vandenberg section Should be able to get a tour and host from these Carl and Dan - pursue this for both slots Space 2014 Updates Going well, many session chairs on this committee Great location SMG Activites Scott Jensen (former SSTC chair) and Kate Stambaugh (SMG young prof awardee) are new deputies Streaming plenaries and panels from Space 2014 Coordinating with Small Sat TC for future conference coordination with SmallSat conference (it is concurrent with Space this year) Defense Forum 2015 in March 10-12 at JHU APL, call for papers soon Combining missile science, strategic & tactical missiles, and weapon system effectiveness meetings These areas haven’t met in a few years ALL: Please get involved in organization if you can and please attend For AIAA Forum 2015 – “New Face of Space” Bring young professionals more directly into planning, partner with veterans Set it apart from other space conferences Look at breadth of industry we are impacting ALL: what are we missing? What kinds of sessions would include them? Who to invite to speak and who to target for promotion? (contact Ben) Ben Tutt is tech program chair, close to emerging industries and young profs. Lessons Learned during a career in systems and missiles – documented and recorded ALL: Contact Karen Barker to participate SMG Innovation – use technology for better interaction and communication ALL: Contact Kate Stambaugh with ideas SMG Lunch and Learn program – developments and accomplishments ALL: Contact Scott Jensen with ideas SMG Mentoring Program – share knowledge about technical areas and career, perspective and privacy or going outside your organization ALL: Contact Jeff Puschell with ideas for implementation New direction for SMG newsletter – 2-3 TCs focused in each newsletter, also key information in each issue. Kate will be associate editor (a)Treasurer Balance is $730.93 Shahzad: What transactions? (b)Education 4 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Student Design Competition Asteroid retrieval is of interest, smallsats also of interest, so focused on smallsat asteroid precursor mission. People at LaRC involved in ARM concept helped formulate the request for proposal. Draft will be sent to committee. ALL: Return comments to Bill and Mark in next few weeks. Then will send to AIAA to implement for spring semester (it is one of several ideas from TCs from which AIAA will select the RFP to be implemented). To be awarded in July; present poster at Space Forum 2015. Student Essay Competition The 2014 middle school essay competition was successful in engaging more AIAA sections. We had interest from 7 sections, 5 of which awarded local winners and entered them into the SSTC competition (LALV, New Orleans, NWFL, Hampton Roads, Netherlands). We awarded $100 each to 1 7th grade student from the NW FLorida section and an 8th grade student from the Greater New Orleans section, and $250 each to their science teachers for STEM materials. The sponsors were Michigan Space Grant and Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. We also gave applications for Educator Associate membership to the teachers (interest from other teachers at the schools too) and purchased a year student membership for student winners, along with certificates and AIAA student brochures (Samantha paid for this, took contributions from committee). When we have feedback from teachers as to how they used the award in the fall, Samantha will write up results for the SMG newsletter and Aerospace magazine TC activities as we did last year. Samantha: Send entries to CASIS and Congressional Visits Day coordinator to show what students are interested in. (through Karen Barker, Space Ops TC, Life Sciences TC) Samantha: Send out updated contest info slide package, including suggestion to sections to award with visit to local space sites. ALL: Contact your local sections to get commitment for next year. ALL: Send Samantha ideas for topics. Teacher STEM Awards $500 awards for K-12 teachers based on their proposals SSTC usually awards 2 Space Transportation TC usually awards 2, and is interested in funding more awards this year Need to get more funding from industry (we only have funding secured for 1) NASA Alumni League Houston section has committed $500 – will name for them Challenger Learning Center of CO provides administrative support Michelle: announce to all NASA Alumni to ask for donations to this ALL: ask industry and organizations for donations toward this grant RFP will be in August ALL: Want 5 volunteers for judging – contact Michelle 5 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Would like to use SSTC website to host grant application information Eventually be able to load and judge through website Tim: put RFP on wiki (c)Science Rosetta just arrived at its comet after 10 years and 6 orbits of sun, Earth flybys. Flying in triangular formation with it about 100m away, moving 1m/s relatively. Looks like a small and big snowball stuck together. First rendezvous with comet. Planning to land in November. Trying to figure out why moon is shaped like lemon. They think they’ve figured it out. Looking at galaxies formed only 500 million years after big bang. Gone 96% of the way back to Big Bang. Formed 50x faster. Using gravitational lensing to see stars forming – makes them brighter. AQUA past 10 years, Chandra 15 years old, NuSTAR in extended mission with guest observers Climate models need to be updated with effect of aerosols because they do effect cloud formation JWST still on schedule and cost, 2018 launch (d)Awards (Shahzad’s presentation to be put on SSTC wiki – ask Tim if you don’t have access) ALL: be thinking about nominations for Technical Excellence, Space System, and Von Braun. Contact Shahzad (e)Public Policy Churn in launch world. NASA budget okay, but the NRC report is down on asteroid mission. Big down-select coming on commercial space ISS servicing. Geopolitics impacting space big time via Russia. It’s a brutal existence for SeaLaunch. Key Policy Paper published. ALL: See Hugh for link and get comments or other ideas back to him. Congressional Visit Day (CVD) on March 11, 2015. Webinars will begin early February (This is during the Defense Forum) There is a stipend for travel costs (which may or may not be available this year) – apply on AIAA website. OCO2 launched on old Delta 2s purchased by NASA. One more left. NASA $400M short to finish SLS by 2017 (this is not unexpected) NASA did a panel at Comic Con with Bobak (from MSL) NASA Cubesat Launch Initiative targeting all 50 states – have about half now. Last Antares launched a bunch. Langley “flying saucer” decelerator got lots of attention China’s Yutu rover is stuck but still transmitting after 7 solar cycles Space science conference in Moscow – 35 NASA employees attending! 3 massive volcanic eruptions on Io in a 2-week period last year Big coronal ejection noted by media. It missed Earth. Funding for Russian engine is not settled. ULA is moving on rocket engine replacement for Russian engine. 6 AIAA SSTC Summer 2014 Air Force has called Falcon 9 successful on 3 launches, so cleared for launch service awards SpaceX lawsuit progressing – (Suing your customer? Interesting marketing strategy) Final ATV launch to ISS completed (only 5 commissioned). Will be repurposed for Orion service module. Angara had a successful suborbital launch, the successor to Proton (which has noxious gases) ISEE-3 reactivation didn’t work, abandoned Falcon 9 first stage completed flyback test for future recovery First crewed commercial vehicle will carry NASA astronauts (not employees of the vehicle’s company) Ron: If we have a CVD contribution, we should run it by other TCs to get more backing. Karen: Any CVD contribution needs to be something that can be funded, with a clear way to get that funding, and would not upset an industry player. (Otherwise it won’t make it for inclusion.) (f)Website Will put Teacher STEM award information on wiki Membership Covered during meeting notes review Explosive Nut Karen – comment aboutessays read by congress Hugh - (about moon formation and the moon’s lemony shape) “Are you sure it’s not an avocado?” I got to watch Gemini in my pajamas/underwear? Close Of Meeting Meeting adjourned 1520 7