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AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition 2018 AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition 2018 Held at the AIAA SPACE Forum 2018 Orlando, Florida, USA 17 - 19 September 2018 Volume 1 of 5 ISBN: 978-1-5108-7648-4 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. The contents of this work are copyrighted and additional reproduction in whole or in part are expressly prohibited without the prior written permission of the Publisher or copyright holder. The resale of the entire proceeding as received from CURRAN is permitted. For reprint permission, please contact AIAA’s Business Manager, Technical Papers. Contact by phone at 703-264-7500; fax at 703-264-7551 or by mail at 12700 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 200, Reston, VA 20191, USA. TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 COL-01: MARS MISSION CONCEPTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES MARSH: MULTI-MISSION ARTIFICIAL-GRAVITY REUSABLE SPACE HABITAT (AIAA 2018- 5100)........................................................................................................................................................................................1 Dale Martin, Melissa Adams, Spencer Aman, Derek Bierly, Caleb Fricke, Simon Hochmuth, Nicholas Levitsky, Skylar Trythall, David L. Akin NAVIGATION REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF A MARTIAN ASCENT VEHICLE (AIAA 2018-5101)........................................................................................................ 22 Evan J. Anzalone, Juan Orphee, Terri Schmitt, Sarah Triana, Jared Leggett ADVANTAGES OF A MODULAR MARS SURFACE HABITAT APPROACH (AIAA 2018-5102) ........................ 43 Michelle A. Rucker, Stephen J. Hoffman, Alida Andrews, Kevin D. Watts RESULTS OF THE AIAA 2017 PHOBOS BASE STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION (AIAA 2018- 5103)................................................................................................................................................................................... N/A Marc M. Cohen, Donna M. Rodman, Edward Hodgson EXPL-01: ADVANCED POWER AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS OBTAINING FASTER TRANSIT TO SATURN WITHOUT A JOVIAN FLYBY (AIAA 2018-5104)...................... 62 Edgar A. Bering, Matthew Giambusso, Mark Carter, Jared Squire, Franklin Chang Díaz MARS NTP ARCHITECTURE ELEMENTS USING THE LUNAR ORBITAL PLATFORM- GATEWAY (AIAA 2018-5105) .......................................................................................................................................... 83 Daniel J. Levack, James F. Horton, Claude R. Joyner, Timothy S. Kokan, Frederick Widman, Brian J. Guzek ENERGY STORAGE FOR LUNAR SURFACE EXPLORATION (AIAA 2018-5106)................................................ 99 Monica C. Guzik, Ryan Gilligan, Phillip Smith, Ian Jakupca NEW MOON EXPLORER (NME) ROBOTIC PRECURSOR MISSION CONCEPT (AIAA 2018- 5107).................................................................................................................................................................................... 109 Jared A. Dervan, Les Johnson, Leslie McNutt, Joseph Nuth, Alex Few, Andy F. Heaton, John Carr, Darren Boyd, Dana Turse, Benjamin Malphrus, Aaron Zucherman, Michael Combs EXPL-02: ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION POLAR SAMPLE EXTRACTION IN-SITU DRILLING OPERATIONS NETWORK (POSEIDON): A LUNAR POLAR SAMPLE RETURN CONCEPTUAL MISSION ARCHITECTURE (AIAA 2018- 5108).................................................................................................................................................................................... 118 Adam Marcinkowski, Kevin Miller, Charlie Fuller, Deep Joshi, Bryce Frazee, Ben Burckel, David Shay, Nicholas Wagner, J G. McHargue, Nathan Vermeer, Daniela Machnik, Stela Cayatte, Jared Olson, Jacob Drozdowicz, Nam Do, Patrick Ng, Paul Stanton, Jackson Crutcher, Sergey Koryakin, Sepideh Kianbakht, Jamal Rostami ENERGY ANALYSIS OF GROWTH ADAPTABLE ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY SPACE HABITAT (AIAA 2018-5109).............................................................................................................................................................. 136 Muhao Chen, Yuling Shen, Raman Goyal, Manoranjan Majji, Robert E. Skelton MOON DIRECT: A NEW PLAN FOR A COST-EFFECTIVE LUNA BASE (AIAA 2018-5110) ............................ 148 Robert M. Zubrin SOLAR THERMAL HYBRID PROPULSION STAGE FOR MARS EXPLORATION (AIAA 2018- 5111).................................................................................................................................................................................... 157 Rosemary K. Davidson, David T. Nestor, Karenna A. Buco, Brian Davis, Zane B. Gardenhour, Luke W. Renegar, David L. Akin HSP-01: SPACE HISTORY AND PRESERVATION TIME MAPS OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT: 1962-1964 (AIAA 2018-5112)............................................................... 175 Thomas Gangale, Christian Adams TIME MAPS OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT: 1965-1967 (AIAA 2018-5113)............................................................... 272 Thomas Gangale FROM SCIENCE FICTION TO THE STARS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY (AIAA 2018-5114) ........................................................................................................................................... 382 Tom D. Crouch FIRST GEMINI 6 FOLLOWED BY GEMINI 7, THEN 7 FOLLOWED BY 6A: TURNING A CRISIS INTO A SUCCESS (AIAA 2018-5115) .............................................................................................................. 396 Benjamin G. Davis RSA-01: SPACE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION I A SURVEY OF ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR IN-SPACE ASSEMBLY AND SERVICING (AIAA 2018-5116).............................................................................................................................................................. 404 William J. Gallagher, Kristen Solberg, Gardell G. Gefke, Brian Roberts SPACECRAFT DORMANCY OPERATIONAL DESIGN FOR A CREWED MARTIAN REFERENCE MISSION (AIAA 2018-5117)................................................................................................................... 414 Julia Badger, Jeremy D. Frank THE DEMONSTRATION OF A ROBOTIC EXTERNAL LEAK LOCATOR ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (AIAA 2018-5118)........................................................................................... 425 Adam Naids, Dino Rossetti, Tim Bond, Alvin Huang, Alexandra Deal, Katie Fox, Michael Heiser, Jesse Buffington, David Autrey, Chris Craw, William Hartman, Ronald Mikatarian INTELLIGENT APPROACH FOR COLLABORATIVE SPACE ROBOT SYSTEMS (AIAA 2018- 5119).................................................................................................................................................................................... 441 Anoop Sathyan, Ou Ma, Kelly Cohen SATS-01: SMALL SATELLITES I – ENSURING SUCCESS EXTERNAL VERIFICATION AND COMPARISON OF CUBESAT ATTITUDE DETERMINATION FILTERS USING VISUAL FIDUCIALS (AIAA 2018-5120) .................................................... 450 Jordan Liss, Gabriel Elkaim, Matthew Sorgenfrei, Dayne Kemp INVESTIGATIVE MICROGRAVITY DEPLOYMENT TESTS OF THE CANISTERIZED SATELLITE DISPENSER (CSD) (AIAA 2018-5121) .................................................................................................... 463 Stephen K. Tullino, Eric Swenson, Jessica Tullino METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS FOR REDUCING CUBESAT MISSION FAILURE (AIAA 2018- 5122).................................................................................................................................................................................... 488 Abdulaziz Alanazi COMBINED LOADING ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE’S CRITICAL STRUCTURE COMPONENTS (AIAA 2018-5123).............................................................................................................................................................. 495 Amir M. Wagih, Moutaz M. Hegaze, M. A. Kamel SRU-01: MARS ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESSING ADVANCING IN SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION CAPABILITIES TO ACHIEVE A NEW PARADIGM IN SPACE EXPLORATION (AIAA 2018-5124) ..................................................................................... 505 Gerald B. Sanders TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MARS: COMPARING NOVEL ISRU / ISM ARCHITECTURES USING LIFETIME EMBODIED ENERGY (AIAA 2018- 5125).................................................................................................................................................................................... 514 George C. Lordos, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Sarah E. Summers DESIGN OF A SECOND GENERATION ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR FOR MARTIAN ATMOSPHERIC DUST MITIGATION OF ISRU INTAKES (AIAA 2018-5126)...................................................... 538 James R. Phillips, Michael Johansen, Jerry Wang, Jaysen Mulligan, Carlos Calle THE DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION: SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LESSONS LEARNED FOR TERRESTRIAL AND PLANETARY APPLICATIONS (AIAA 2018-5127) ............................................................................................................................... 545 Michael Fiske, Jennifer E. Edmunson, Edward Weite, John C. Fikes, Mallory Johnston, Robert P. Mueller, Behrokh Khoshnevis SSEE-01: ARCHITECTURES SPACE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA'S ADITYA-L1 MISSION TO STUDY THE SUN (AIAA 2018-5128).............................................................................................................................................................. 565
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