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“Where Do I Start?” Rides to Space for Scientific and Academic Payloads
SSC02-VII-06 “WHERE DO I START?” RIDES TO SPACE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC PAYLOADS Matt Bille Tony Williams Tracy Martin Booz, Allen & Hamilton Booz, Allen & Hamilton Booz, Allen & Hamilton 1050 S. Academy Blvd. #148 1050 S. Academy Blvd. #148 1050 S. Academy Blvd. #148 Colorado Springs, CO 80910 Colorado Springs, CO 80910 Colorado Springs, CO 80910 719-570-3172 719-570-3109 719-570-3105 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT. The launch problem for small payloads is nowhere as serious as it is for scientific and academic users, who cannot tap the purchasing power available to spacecraft funded by the military and large corporations. The options available for the researcher at a university who has an instrument or a spacecraft are limited, sometimes depressingly so. Dedicated vehicles are usually unaffordable, and secondary payload opportunities require meeting a host of requirements, from payload design to timing to integration, dependent on the needs of the primary payload. In this paper, the authors survey the options available and answer the question, “Where do I start?” Sources of potential rides, including NASA, military, commercial, and non-U.S. programs and organizations were surveyed. The results are presented here, along with recommendations for an improved process which, at low cost, could improve the “matchmaking” system and simplify the obstacle course faced by spacecraft and instrument developers today. Introduction Who To Call First While the technology to reduce the size and The payload developer can start by approaching increase the capability of small scientific and two government programs which aim to help in academic satellites continues to advance, the providing rides to space. -
NASA APPEL 2013 Annual Report
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Annual Report Fiscal Year 2013 Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) www.nasa.gov Table of Contents 3 About the Academy 3 Mission and Goals 4 Leadership Team 5 Executive Summary 7 Core Business 9 Innovations and Cost Management 13 Building Individual Capability Through Training 17 Learning Through Hands-On Experience 22 CKO – Promoting a Learning Organization Through Knowledge Services 26 Learning and Working Through International Collaboration 28 Meeting the Needs of Young Professionals 30 Facilitating Open Communication and Dialogue 32 2014 Outlook 2 About the Academy Before assuming its present structure, the NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) underwent several metamorphoses in response to changing needs at the agency. Beginning with the Program and Project Management Initiative (PPMI) in 1988, which was founded in response to the Challenger disaster, NASA leadership identified a need to develop program and project management excellence in the workforce through training. Ten years later, the agency outgrew the PPMI model as its mission portfolio and workforce evolved. The renamed APPEL grew to place a greater emphasis on curriculum, certification, team performance, and knowledge sharing across NASA. Since then, the Academy’s initiatives have provided support to the agency’s technical workforce through its integrated curriculum, team support services, and knowledge sharing activities. In January 2012, a Congressionally established advisory group called the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, recommended that NASA establish a single focal point within the agency to develop the policy and requirements necessary to integrate knowledge capture across programs, projects, and centers. In response, NASA appointed its first-ever agency-wide Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO), building upon of the wealth of knowledge sharing activities already underway across NASA, including APPEL. -
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Commercial Orbital Transportation Services A New Era in Spaceflight NASA/SP-2014-617 Commercial Orbital Transportation Services A New Era in Spaceflight On the cover: Background photo: The terminator—the line separating the sunlit side of Earth from the side in darkness—marks the changeover between day and night on the ground. By establishing government-industry partnerships, the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program marked a change from the traditional way NASA had worked. Inset photos, right: The COTS program supported two U.S. companies in their efforts to design and build transportation systems to carry cargo to low-Earth orbit. (Top photo—Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on May 22, 2012, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Second photo) Three days later, the company successfully completed the mission that sent its Dragon spacecraft to the Station. (Third photo—Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) Orbital Sciences Corp. sent its Antares rocket on its test flight on April 21, 2013, from a new launchpad on Virginia’s eastern shore. Later that year, the second Antares lifted off with Orbital’s cargo capsule, (Fourth photo) the Cygnus, that berthed with the ISS on September 29, 2013. Both companies successfully proved the capability to deliver cargo to the International Space Station by U.S. commercial companies and began a new era of spaceflight. ISS photo, center left: Benefiting from the success of the partnerships is the International Space Station, pictured as seen by the last Space Shuttle crew that visited the orbiting laboratory (July 19, 2011). More photos of the ISS are featured on the first pages of each chapter. -
Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace
Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Joseph, Christine and Danielle Wood. "Understanding Socio- Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace." 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2019, Big Sky, Montana, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, June 2019. © 2019 IEEE As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aero.2019.8742202 Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Version Author's final manuscript Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131219 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace Christine Joseph Danielle Wood Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] [email protected] Abstract— For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) 1. INTRODUCTION has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgravity research. Beyond enabling For anyone who is a teenager in October 2019, the insights into human physiology in space, the ISS has served as a International Space Station has been in operation and hosted microgravity platform for numerous science experiments. In humans for the entirety of that person’s life. The platform has recent years, private industry has also been affiliating with hosted a diverse spectrum of microgravity, human space NASA and international partners to offer transportation, exploration, technology demonstration, and education related logistics management, and payload demands. -
Bethany L. Ehlmann California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 150-21 Pasadena, CA 91125 USA Ehlmann@Caltech
Bethany L. Ehlmann California Institute of Technology [email protected] 1200 E. California Blvd. Caltech office: +1 626.395.6720 MC 150-21 JPL office: +1 818.354.2027 Pasadena, CA 91125 USA Fax: +1 626.568.0935 EDUCATION Ph.D., 2010; Sc. M., 2008, Brown University, Geological Sciences (advisor, J. Mustard) M.Sc. by research, 2007, University of Oxford, Geography (Geomorphology; advisor, H. Viles) M.Sc. with distinction, 2005, Univ. of Oxford, Environ. Change & Management (advisor, J. Boardman) A.B. summa cum laude, 2004, Washington University in St. Louis (advisor, R. Arvidson) Majors: Earth & Planetary Sciences, Environmental Studies; Minor: Mathematics International Baccalaureate Diploma, Rickards High School, Tallahassee, Florida, 2000 Additional Training: Nordic/NASA Summer School: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe, Iceland, 2009 Vatican Observatory Summer School in Astronomy &Astrophysics, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, 2005 Rainforest to Reef Program: Marine Geology, Coastal Sedimentology, James Cook Univ., Australia, 2004 School for International Training, Development and Conservation Program, Panamá, Sept-Dec 2002 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor of Planetary Science, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor 2011-2017, Professor 2017-present; Associate Director, Keck Institute for Space Studies 2018-present Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 2011-2020 Lunar Trailblazer, Principal Investigator, 2019-present MaMISS -
Dr. Donna L. Shirley Nasa Oral History
DR. DONNA L. SHIRLEY NASA ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWED BY CAROL BUTLER NORMAN, OKLAHOMA – 17 JULY 2001 BUTLER: Today is July 17, 2001. This oral history with Donna Shirley is being conducted for the NASA Oral History Project in her offices at the University of Oklahoma. Carol Butler is the interviewer. Thank you very much for allowing me to come visit with you today. SHIRLEY: Okay. BUTLER: To begin with, I did take a look at your autobiography before coming, and it was very interesting. It did cover a lot about your early life and how you got interested in the space program. So I'd like to just expand on some of the things that were in your book. To begin with, when you first came to JPL [Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California] early on, were here at JPL, you worked on an early Mars mission— SHIRLEY: Right. BUTLER: —by doing some entry studies, I believe. SHIRLEY: Right. 17 July 2001 1 NASA Oral History Donna L. Shirley BUTLER: What were the similarities of that project with what you worked on later that was Mars-related, and then some of the differences? SHIRLEY: Well, the similarities of the projects were, this project was called Voyager. It wasn't the Voyager that went on the grand tour, but its name was Voyager, and it was going to be a really big project, bigger than anything that had flown and so on. It was going to land on Mars in 1971. One of the big differences was that in 1966 we didn't have a very good understanding of the thickness of the atmosphere. -
GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, and CONTROL 2020 AAS PRESIDENT Carol S
GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, AND CONTROL 2020 AAS PRESIDENT Carol S. Lane Cynergy LLC VICE PRESIDENT – PUBLICATIONS James V. McAdams KinetX Inc. EDITOR Jastesh Sud Lockheed Martin Space SERIES EDITOR Robert H. Jacobs Univelt, Incorporated Front Cover Illustration: Image: Checkpoint-Rehearsal-Movie-1024x720.gif Caption: “OSIRIS-REx Buzzes Sample Site Nightingale” Photo and Caption Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Public Release Approval: Per multimedia guidelines from NASA Frontispiece Illustration: Image: NASA_Orion_EarthRise.jpg Caption: “Orion Primed for Deep Space Exploration” Photo Credit: NASA Public Release Approval: Per multimedia guidelines from NASA GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION, AND CONTROL 2020 Volume 172 ADVANCES IN THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES Edited by Jastesh Sud Proceedings of the 43rd AAS Rocky Mountain Section Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference held January 30 to February 5, 2020, Breckenridge, Colorado Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, Incorporated, P.O. Box 28130, San Diego, California 92198 Web Site: http://www.univelt.com Copyright 2020 by AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY AAS Publications Office P.O. Box 28130 San Diego, California 92198 Affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science Member of the International Astronautical Federation First Printing 2020 Library of Congress Card No. 57-43769 ISSN 0065-3438 ISBN 978-0-87703-669-2 (Hard Cover Plus CD ROM) ISBN 978-0-87703-670-8 (Digital Version) Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, Incorporated, P.O. Box 28130, San Diego, California 92198 Web Site: http://www.univelt.com Printed and Bound in the U.S.A. FOREWORD HISTORICAL SUMMARY The annual American Astronautical Society Rocky Mountain Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference began as an informal exchange of ideas and reports of achievements among local guidance and control specialists. -
A New Hope for International Space
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Seton Hall University Libraries A NEW HOPE FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW: INCORPORATING NINETEENTH CENTURY FIRST POSSESSION PRINCIPLES INTO THE 1967 SPACE TREATY FOR THE COLONIZATION OF OUTER SPACE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Brandon C. Gruner∗ INTRODUCTION Legend has it that a friend once asked Mark Twain what he should invest in, and the good-humored author responded “Buy land; they’ve stopped making it.”1 The author’s advice was given more than 100 years ago and it still makes good sense. If a resource is scarce, it is almost always going to become more valuable.2 It is ∗ J.D. Candidate, 2005, Seton Hall University School of Law; B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, History, 1999, New York University: College of Arts and Science. I would like to thank my parents, Robert and Maria Gruner, for their unwavering support throughout my education, and Paula A. Franzese, the Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, for her invaluable knowledge and guidance in writing this Comment. 1 A search of the Lexis and Westlaw databases, as well as the World Wide Web, demonstrates that hundreds of newspapers and Web sites have attributed this quote or some similar version to Mark Twain. See, e.g., Clinton J. Fynes, “Ambassadorial Role” Leads Ian to Property, COURIER-MAIL, Oct. 12, 1990 (relaying the story of Mark Twain advising his friend to “Buy land, they’re not making any more of it.”); Tom Fegely, Lack of Action on Tag Fees Pinches Gamelands Purchases, Maintenance, MORNING CALL (Allentown, PA), Sept. -
Space Planes and Space Tourism: the Industry and the Regulation of Its Safety
Space Planes and Space Tourism: The Industry and the Regulation of its Safety A Research Study Prepared by Dr. Joseph N. Pelton Director, Space & Advanced Communications Research Institute George Washington University George Washington University SACRI Research Study 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………………………………… p 4-14 1.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………….. p 16-26 2.0 Methodology…………………………………………………………………….. p 26-28 3.0 Background and History……………………………………………………….. p 28-34 4.0 US Regulations and Government Programs………………………………….. p 34-35 4.1 NASA’s Legislative Mandate and the New Space Vision………….……. p 35-36 4.2 NASA Safety Practices in Comparison to the FAA……….…………….. p 36-37 4.3 New US Legislation to Regulate and Control Private Space Ventures… p 37 4.3.1 Status of Legislation and Pending FAA Draft Regulations……….. p 37-38 4.3.2 The New Role of Prizes in Space Development…………………….. p 38-40 4.3.3 Implications of Private Space Ventures…………………………….. p 41-42 4.4 International Efforts to Regulate Private Space Systems………………… p 42 4.4.1 International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety… p 42-43 4.4.2 The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)…………….. p 43-44 4.4.3 The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).. p 44 4.4.4 The European Aviation Safety Agency…………………………….. p 44-45 4.4.5 Review of International Treaties Involving Space………………… p 45 4.4.6 The ICAO -The Best Way Forward for International Regulation.. p 45-47 5.0 Key Efforts to Estimate the Size of a Private Space Tourism Business……… p 47 5.1. -
Involvement in Undergraduate Research NASA's
NASA’s involvement in undergraduate research Edmond W. Wilson, Jr. Professor and Coons Biomedical Sciences Chair, Harding University Introduction Are you looking for a new research area, or are you looking adverse effects of humans living outside the friendly for some new approaches to advance an existing research confines of Earth’s environment. What are the changes in project? If so, the National Aeronautics and Space body chemistry occurring under reduced gravity? What Administration (NASA) may be an excellent organization to types of exercise and diet regimens can help to support life in help you enhance your undergraduate research and elevate it a hostile environment? What types of irreversible changes to a higher level of excellence. NASA is devoted to science can be expected to occur due to extended missions in low and engineering research projects that improve aeronautics gravity? What can be done to minimize the excessive and provide information about the Earth, our solar system, radiation hazard found outside Earth’s atmosphere? Research and the universe as a whole. You might be surprised to know into human health and mobility is actively being carried out that there are very few science or engineering areas that are at the Johnson Space Center. Psychologists are involved not of importance to some mission of NASA. Virtually every in NASA projects to identify the right mix of personality science research area has been (or can be) applied to an existing traits required for extended shuttle missions and future space NASA project. This article will give some information about station missions. Biologists are needed in NASA studies in NASA research areas and how you can use NASA to advance several areas. -
Nasa's Commercial Crew Development
NASA’S COMMERCIAL CREW DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CHALLENGES HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 Serial No. 112–46 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 70–800PDF 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 BRAD MILLER, North Carolina FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois JUDY BIGGERT, Illinois GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, Arizona W. TODD AKIN, Missouri DONNA F. EDWARDS, Maryland RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas BEN R. LUJA´ N, New Mexico PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia PAUL D. TONKO, New York SANDY ADAMS, Florida JERRY MCNERNEY, California BENJAMIN QUAYLE, Arizona JOHN P. SARBANES, Maryland CHARLES J. ‘‘CHUCK’’ FLEISCHMANN, TERRI A. SEWELL, Alabama Tennessee FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida E. SCOTT RIGELL, Virginia HANSEN CLARKE, Michigan STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi VACANCY MO BROOKS, Alabama ANDY HARRIS, Maryland RANDY HULTGREN, Illinois CHIP CRAVAACK, Minnesota LARRY BUCSHON, Indiana DAN BENISHEK, Michigan VACANCY (II) C O N T E N T S Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Page Witness List ............................................................................................................ -
Southeastern Space Supporter
Southeastern Space Supporter Newsletter of HAL5 – the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society chapter of the National Space Society 3 Volume 8, Number 4 — July–August 1999 S ________________________________________________________________________ The Mighty Saturn V Stands Tall Again FIRST WORD HAL5 Hosts a Successful Southeast Space Summit (by Greg Allison, HAL5 President) Three NSS chapters from the southeast (Region 5) staged a summit meeting on the 17th and 18th of July in Huntsville, Alabama. The chapters in attendance were NSS Atlanta (which supplied 6 members), Middle Tennessee Space Society (which supplied 2), and the host chapter, HAL5 (which supplied 11). Bill Wood from NSS Memphis was also scheduled to attend, but had to cancel at the last minute. Michael Gilbrook of the Metro Orlando Space Society, had expressed interest in participating, but had a work conflict. Though the meeting was staged with little notice and little planning, it was a huge success! 19 members of these chapters participated in two days of chapter management workshops and planning sessions at the Holiday Inn. (see Summit on page 3) HAL5 Program Night Thursday, October 7, 1999 7 to 8:30 p.m. (with social afterwards) Huntsville Public Library Auditorium “Aerospace Planes: A New Arena for the Home Builder” Guest speaker will be HAL5 member Dr. John A. Bossard, B.S. Aerospace and Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering. All HAL5 and NSS members are encouraged to attend, and to bring interested friends and coworkers. Open to the public. Free admission. Photo by Ronnie Lajoie July–August 1999 SOUTHEASTERN SPACE SUPPORTER The Saturn V Rises Again Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (by Ronnie Lajoie, HAL5 Member) President — Greg Allison Day: 544-4440, Eve: 859-5538 On July 13, the Turner Universal Vice-President — Gladys Young Construction Company completed — on Day: 852-0561, Eve: 852-0561 schedule, albeit with the accidental loss Treasurer — Ronnie Lajoie of worker Ed Stovall — a full scale Day: 971-3055, Eve: 721-1083 replica of the Saturn V launch vehicle.