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Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study
Publications 4-2-2012 Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study John Brophy California Institute of Technology Fred Culick California Institute of Technology Louis Friedman The Planetary Society Pedro Llanos Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, [email protected] et al. Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/publication Part of the Astrodynamics Commons, Space Vehicles Commons, and the The Sun and the Solar System Commons Scholarly Commons Citation Brophy, J., Culick, F., Friedman, L., Llanos, P., & al., e. (2012). Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/893 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study 2 April 2012 Prepared for the: Keck Institute for Space Studies California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California 1 2 Authors and Study Participants NAME Organization E-Mail Signature John Brophy Co-Leader / NASA JPL / Caltech [email protected] Fred Culick Co-Leader / Caltech [email protected] Co -Leader / The Planetary Louis Friedman [email protected] Society Carlton Allen NASA JSC [email protected] David Baughman Naval Postgraduate School [email protected] NASA ARC/Carnegie Mellon Julie Bellerose [email protected] University Bruce Betts The Planetary Society -
GAO-07-595T NASA: Issues Surrounding the Transition from The
United States Government Accountability Office Testimony before the Subcommittee on GAO Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, U.S. Senate For Release on Delivery Expected at 2:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 28, 2007 NASA Issues Surrounding the Transition from the Space Shuttle to the Next Generation of Human Space Flight Systems Statement of Allen Li, Director Acquisition and Sourcing Management GAO-07-595T March 28, 2007 NASA Accountability Integrity Reliability Highlights Issues Surrounding the Transition from Highlights of GAO-07-595T, a testimony the Space Shuttle to the Next Generation before the Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences, of Human Space Flight Systems Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, U. S. Senate Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found On January 14, 2004, the President NASA is in the midst of a transition effort of a magnitude not seen since the announced a new Vision for space end of the Apollo program and the start of the Space Shuttle Program more exploration that directs the than 3 decades ago. This transition will include a massive transfer of people, National Aeronautics and Space hardware, and infrastructure. Based on ongoing and work completed to- Administration (NASA) to focus its date, we have identified a number of issues that pose unique challenges to efforts on returning humans to the moon by 2020 in preparation for NASA as it transitions from the shuttle to the next generation of human future, more ambitions missions. space flight systems while at the same time seeking to minimize the time the United States will be without its own means to put humans in space. -
The Role and Training of NASA Astronauts In
Co-chairs: Joe Rothenberg, Fred Gregory Briefing: October 18-19, 2011 Statement of Task An ad hoc committee will conduct a study and prepare a report on the activities of NASA’s human spaceflight crew office. In writing its report the committee will address the following questions: • How should the role and size of the activities managed by the Johnson Space Center Flight Crew Operations Directorate change after space shuttle retirement and completion of the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS)? • What are the requirements of crew-related ground-based facilities after the space shuttle program ends? • Is the fleet of aircraft used for the training the Astronaut Corps a cost-effective means of preparing astronauts to meet the requirements of NASA’s human spaceflight program? Are there more cost-effective means of meeting these training requirements? The NRC was not asked to consider whether or not the United States should continue human spaceflight, or whether there were better alternatives to achieving the nation’s goals without launching humans into space. Rather, the NRC’s charge was to assume that U.S. human spaceflight would continue. 2 Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations • FREDERICK GREGORY, Lohfeld Consulting Group, Inc., Co-Chair • JOSEPH H. ROTHENBERG, Swedish Space Corporation, Co-Chair • MICHAEL J. CASSUTT, University of Southern California • RICHARD O. COVEY, United Space Alliance, LLC (retired) • DUANE DEAL, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. • BONNIE J. DUNBAR, President and CEO, Dunbar International, LLC • WILLIAM W. HOOVER, Independent Consultant • THOMAS D. JONES, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition • FRANKLIN D. MARTIN, Martin Consulting, Inc. -
Lightsail 2 Set to Launch in June “We Are Go for Launch!” Said Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye
Lightsail 2 set to launch in June “We are go for launch!” said Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye. Funded by space enthusiasts, LightSail 2 aims to accomplish the 1st-ever, controlled solar sail flight in Earth orbit next month. Writing at the Planetary Society’s blog, Jason Davis this week (May 13, 2019) described the upcoming challenge of the launch of LightSail 2, a little spacecraft literally powered by sunbeams and dear to the hearts of many. He wrote: Weighing just 5 kilograms, the loaf-of-bread-sized spacecraft, known as a CubeSat, is scheduled to lift A one-unit CubeSat measures 10 centimeters per side. off on June 22, 2019, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy LightSail is a three-unit CubeSat measuring 10 by 10 by 30 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Once in centimetres. Here, an early LightSail model sits next to a space, LightSail 2 will deploy a boxing ring-sized solar loaf of bread for size comparison. sail and attempt to raise its orbit using the gentle push from solar photons. It’s the culmination of a 10-year project with an origin story linked to the three scientist-engineers who founded The Planetary Society in 1980. Indeed, although the Lightsail 2 project itself is 10 years old, the idea for lightsail or solar sail spacecraft goes back decades, at least. Carl Sagan – who was one of those Planetary Society founders -- popularized the idea for our time. Now the mantle for popularizing lightsails, and helping to bring the dream many steps closer to reality, has been passed to Bill Nye, the current CEO of the Planetary Society. -
GAO-05-230 Space Shuttle: Actions Needed to Better Position
United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters GAO March 2005 SPACE SHUTTLE Actions Needed to Better Position NASA to Sustain Its Workforce through Retirement GAO-05-230 March 2005 SPACE SHUTTLE Accountability Integrity Reliability Highlights Actions Needed to Better Position NASA Highlights of GAO-05-230, a report to to Sustain Its Workforce through congressional requesters Retirement Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found The President’s vision for space The Space Shuttle Program has made limited progress toward developing a exploration (Vision) directs the detailed long-term strategy for sustaining its workforce through the space National Aeronautics and Space shuttle’s retirement. The program has taken preliminary steps, including Administration (NASA) to retire the identifying the lessons learned from the retirement of programs comparable space shuttle following completion to the space shuttle, such as the Air Force Titan IV Rocket Program, to assist of the International Space Station, planned for the end of the decade. in its workforce planning efforts. Other efforts have been initiated or are The retirement process will last planned, such as enlisting the help of human capital experts and revising the several years and impact thousands acquisition strategy for updating the space shuttle’s propulsion system prime of critically skilled NASA civil contracts; however, actions taken thus far have been limited. NASA’s prime service and contractor employees contractor for space shuttle operations has also taken some preliminary that support the program. Key to steps to begin to prepare for the impact of the space shuttle’s retirement on implementing the Vision is NASA’s its workforce, such as working with a consulting firm to conduct a ability to sustain this workforce to comprehensive study of its workforce. -
A Review of Nasa's Exploration
A REVIEW OF NASA’S EXPLORATION PROGRAM IN TRANSITION: ISSUES FOR CONGRESS AND INDUSTRY HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE AND AERONAUTICS COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MARCH 30, 2011 Serial No. 112–8 Printed for the use of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://science.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 65–305PDF WASHINGTON : 2011 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY HON. RALPH M. HALL, Texas, Chair F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas Wisconsin JERRY F. COSTELLO, Illinois LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas LYNN C. WOOLSEY, California DANA ROHRABACHER, California ZOE LOFGREN, California ROSCOE G. BARTLETT, Maryland DAVID WU, Oregon FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma BRAD MILLER, North Carolina JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois W. TODD AKIN, Missouri GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas DONNA F. EDWARDS, Maryland MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia BEN R. LUJA´ N, New Mexico SANDY ADAMS, Florida PAUL D. TONKO, New York BENJAMIN QUAYLE, Arizona JERRY MCNERNEY, California CHARLES J. ‘‘CHUCK’’ FLEISCHMANN, JOHN P. SARBANES, Maryland Tennessee TERRI A. SEWELL, Alabama E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi HANSEN CLARKE, Michigan MO BROOKS, Alabama ANDY HARRIS, Maryland RANDY HULTGREN, Illinois CHIP CRAVAACK, Minnesota LARRY BUCSHON, Indiana DAN BENISHEK, Michigan VACANCY SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE AND AERONAUTICS HON. -
Happy Holidays!!!
December 2000 Cosmonotes Décembre 2000 The Newsletter of the Canadian Alumni of the International Space University Le Bulletin des Anciens Etudiants Canadiens de l’Université Internationale de l’Espace reminiscing on an Aerospace Medicine docked to the Station, three HAPPY Elective at KSC, and an article from the spacewalks will be conducted to busy, busy, busy MSS6. Another deliver, assemble, and activate the opinion piece is included in this issue, U.S. electrical power system on board HOLIDAYS!!! this time on The Dreams our Star Stuff the ISS. The electrical power system, Here is the December 2000 edition of is Made of – thank you to Eric Choi which is built into a 47-foot integrated your CAISU newsletter, Cosmonotes, (SSP 99) for polling the alumni and truss structure known as P6, consists again packed with many fascinating writing a delightful article from all of solar arrays, radiators for cooling, articles from alumni and friends. This responses received. batteries for solar energy storage, and electronics. P6 is the first section of a issue of Cosmonotes was slightly Thank you to all alumni who system that ultimately will deliver 60 delayed to include an article on the volunteered to write articles for times more power to the ISS research November 30th launch of STS-97 with Cosmonotes! It is thanks to the facilities than was possible on Mir. Canadian Astronaut Marc Garneau on constant willingness of alumni to board, a launch that many CAISU contribute that this newsletter keeps Mission Specialist Marc Garneau members were present in Florida to getting better (and thicker!) with each (Ph.D.) will attach P6 to the evolving view thanks to an invitation from the issue. -
Planetary Report
The PLANETARY REPORT Volume XXX Number 3 May/June 2010 Why Go Into Space? From The Editor On the Cover: This dazzling, visible-light portrait of the Orion nebula was his 30th anniversary year has had me looking taken by the European Southern Observatory’s new Visible Tback to the beginning of The Planetary Soci- and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). Most of ety, while our LightSail program keeps pulling the light from the spectacular clouds comes from hydrogen gas glowing under the fierce ultraviolet glare of the hot young my thoughts to the future. In 1980, The Planetary Society launched while stars at center. The region above Orion’s center is obscured Carl Sagan was presenting his personal view of by clouds of dust. Image: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA & R. Gendler, the universe on television screens around the with thanks to the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit world. There’s no question that our organization’s success is linked directly to the phenomenon that Background: was Cosmos. To honor that connection, in 2005, It’s easy to forget—as we deal with the day-to-day challenges we created the Cosmos Award for Outstanding of life—that we live on a planet whose normal geologic Public Presentation of Science. The first recipi- activity can trump our most important plans. Here, lava ent was filmmaker James Cameron (who’s had spews out of a mountain on March 21, 2010, in the region a rather big success of his own lately). This February, we presented The Planetary of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano. -
Lightsail Program Status: One Down, One to Go
SSC15-V-3 LightSail Program Status: One Down, One to Go Rex Ridenoure, Riki Munakata, Alex Diaz, Stephanie Wong Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation Pasadena, CA; (626) 278-0435 [email protected] Barbara Plante Boreal Space Hayward, CA; (510) 915-4717 [email protected] Doug Stetson Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group Pasadena, CA, (818) 854-8921 [email protected] Dave Spencer Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, (770) 331-2340 [email protected] Justin Foley California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA, (805) 756-5074 [email protected] ABSTRACT The LightSail program involves two 3U CubeSats designed to advance solar sailing technology state of the art. The entire program is privately funded by members and supporters of The Planetary Society, the world’s largest non- profit space advocacy organization. Spacecraft design started in 2009; by the end of 2011 both spacecraft had largely been built but not fully tested, and neither had a firm launch commitment. Following an 18-month program pause during 2012-2013, the effort was resumed after launch opportunities had been secured for each spacecraft. The first LightSail spacecraft—dedicated primarily to demonstrating the solar sail deployment process—was launched into Earth orbit on 2015 May 20 as a secondary payload aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, and on June 9 mission success was declared. The mission plan for the second LightSail includes demonstration of solar sailing in Earth orbit, among other objectives. It is on track for a launch in 2016 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket as a key element of the Prox-1 mission. -
Bill Nye: Science Guy a Film by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg
POV Community Engagement & Education DISCUSSION GUIDE Bill Nye: Science Guy A Film by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg www.pbs.org/pov LETTER FROM THE FILMMAKERS We’re documentary filmmakers, but we’re also Bill Nye fans who spent our middle school years learn- ing about the ecosystem and the color spectrum from his trusty VHS tapes. Bill’s passion and en- thusiasm stayed with us, and when we got older, we started making films about science and tech- nology. When we learned that Bill Nye was doing something new—working outside of the classroom to champion science and space exploration and helping lead the fight against climate change, we knew we had to make this documentary. As filmmakers, we tell stories about interesting people in the worlds of science, health, informa- tion and technology. Our last film THE IMMOR- TALISTS was about the personal lives of two anti-aging scientists. We focused the story more on their humanity, love and death, and less on the technological “how to” of living forever. We take a similar approach in BILL NYE: SCIENCE GUY— Directors David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. documenting Bill’s journey from popular kid show Photo courtesy of Erika Kapin host to serious science statesman, coupled with in- timate access to his personal life. We see the human-side of a much larger social friction between science and anti-science. Bill is a dream subject for a documentary. He is someone everybody knows of, but no one really knows— where did he come from, what were the experiences that formed his worldview, why is he so mission-driven? Bill was absolutely open to every filming possibility we presented—an amazing leap of faith that allowed us to really get to know the man behind the bow tie. -
Page 8373 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH and WELFARE § 18363
Page 8373 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 18363 SUBCHAPTER V—SPACE SHUTTLE available for activities pursuant to this para- RETIREMENT AND TRANSITION graph. § 18361. Sense of Congress on the Space Shuttle (Pub. L. 111–267, title VI, § 602, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 program Stat. 2828.) (a) Findings REFERENCES IN TEXT Congress makes the following findings: Section 101(2)(B), referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Pub. (1) The Space Shuttle program represents a L. 111–267, title I, § 101(2)(B), Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2809, national asset consisting of critical skills and which is not classified to the Code. capabilities, including the ability to lift large § 18363. Disposition of orbiter vehicles payloads into space and return them to Earth. (2) The Space Shuttle has carried more than (a) In general 355 people from 16 nations into space. Upon the termination of the Space Shuttle (3) The Space Shuttle has projected the best program as provided in section 18362 of this of American values around the world, and title, the Administrator shall decommission any Space Shuttle crews have sparked the imagi- remaining Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles ac- nation and dreams of the world’s youth and cording to established safety and historic pres- young at heart. ervation procedures prior to their designation as (b) Sense of Congress surplus government property. The orbiter vehi- cles shall be made available and located for dis- It is the sense of Congress that— play and maintenance through a competitive (1) it is essential that the retirement of the procedure established pursuant to the disposi- Space Shuttle and the transition to new tion plan developed under section 613(a) of the human space flight capabilities be done in a National Aeronautics and Space Administration manner that builds upon the legacy of this na- Authorization Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. -
Testing the Lightsail Program: Advancing Solar Sailing Technology Using a Cubesat Platform Rex W
Spencer, D. et al. (2016): JoSS, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 531–550 (Peer-reviewed article available at www.jossonline.com) www.DeepakPublishing.com www. JoSSonline.com Testing The LightSail Program: Advancing Solar Sailing Technology Using a CubeSat Platform Rex W. Ridenoure, Riki Munakata, Stephanie D. Wong, and Alex Diaz Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, Pasadena, CA USA Dr. David A. Spencer Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA Douglas A. Stetson Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group, Pasadena, CA USA Dr. Bruce Betts The Planetary Society, Pasadena, CA USA Barbara A. Plante Boreal Space, Hayward, CA USA Justin D. Foley and Dr. John M. Bellardo California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA USA Abstract The LightSail program encompasses the development, launch, and operation of two privately funded 3U CubeSats designed to advance solar sailing technology state of the art. The first LightSail spacecraft— dedicated primarily to demonstrating the solar sail deployment process—successfully completed its mission in low Earth orbit during spring 2015. The principal objective of the second LightSail mission, scheduled for launch in 2017, is to demonstrate sail control in Earth orbit and to increase apogee. Managed by The Planetary Society and funded by members and private donors worldwide, LightSail represents the most ambitious private- ly funded solar sailing program ever launched. By demonstrating the capability to deploy and control a solar sail from a 3U CubeSat platform, the LightSail program advances solar sailing as a viable technology for in- space propulsion of small satellites. This article provides an overview of the LightSail program, describes the spacecraft design, and discusses results from the initial test flight of LightSail 1.