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U.S. Amps up Planning, Dollars for Hypersonic Weapons. PAGE 20 AERONAUTICS 30 ON-ORBIT SERVICING 34 YOUR CULTURE 40 Wind tunnels vs. CFD Buying years more of life Are you a cat or a dog? NEW TRY THE AEROPUZZLER PG 11 THE NEW ARMSU.S. amps up planning, RACEdollars for hypersonic weapons. PAGE 20 JUNE 2018 | A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org AA_June18_COMPLETE_ISSUE_FINAL.indd 1 5/22/18 11:26 AM FEATURES | June 2018 MORE AT aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org 17–19 SEPTEMBER 2018 ORLANDO, FLORIDA TECHNICAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE FORUM TOPICS: › Green Engineering › Space History, Society & Policy › Human Space Flight › Space Logistics & Supportability › Hypersonics › Space Operations 14 30 34 › Information Systems and Software › Space Resources Utilization 20 Remembering Wind tunnels and Extending the › National Security Space › Space Robotics and Automation Hypersonic “John Young CFD need each lives of satellites › Reinventing Space › Space Systems cool” other on orbit › Small Satellites › Space Systems Engineering and Space weapons race A veteran astronaut who Far from being Commercial satellite Economics trained and fl ew with relegated to history by operators and builders › Space Exploration The United States sees itself in an the NASA legend refl ects computational fl uid predict when they’ll be › Space Transportation urgent game of catch-up, mainly on his personality and dynamics, wind tunnels able to repair or refuel character. remain critical to their spacecraft in the against China. aerospace engineers. geosynchronous belt. By Keith Button By Tom Jones By Joe Stumpe By Henry Canaday REGISTRATION IS OPEN space.aiaa.org On the cover: A conceptual hypersonic waverider aircraft simulation. Image credit: Pointwise Inc. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | JUNE 2018 | 1 AA_June18_COMPLETE_ISSUE_FINAL.indd2018_Space AA June Ad.indd 1 2 5/22/185/15/18 11:26 11:42 AM AM FEATURES | June 2018 MORE AT aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org 17–19 SEPTEMBER 2018 ORLANDO, FLORIDA TECHNICAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE FORUM TOPICS: › Green Engineering › Space History, Society & Policy › Human Space Flight › Space Logistics & Supportability › Hypersonics › Space Operations 14 30 34 › Information Systems and Software › Space Resources Utilization 20 Remembering Wind tunnels and Extending the › National Security Space › Space Robotics and Automation Hypersonic “John Young CFD need each lives of satellites › Reinventing Space › Space Systems cool” other on orbit › Small Satellites › Space Systems Engineering and Space weapons race A veteran astronaut who Far from being Commercial satellite Economics trained and fl ew with relegated to history by operators and builders › Space Exploration The United States sees itself in an the NASA legend refl ects computational fl uid predict when they’ll be › Space Transportation urgent game of catch-up, mainly on his personality and dynamics, wind tunnels able to repair or refuel character. remain critical to their spacecraft in the against China. aerospace engineers. geosynchronous belt. By Keith Button By Tom Jones By Joe Stumpe By Henry Canaday REGISTRATION IS OPEN space.aiaa.org On the cover: A conceptual hypersonic waverider aircraft simulation. Image credit: Pointwise Inc. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | JUNE 2018 | 1 2018_Space AA June Ad.indd 1 5/15/18 11:42 AM AA_June18_COMPLETE_ISSUE_FINAL.indd 1 5/22/18 11:26 AM IN THIS ISSUE AEROSPACE★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ AMERICA JUNE 2018, VOL. 56, NO. 6 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Button Ben Iannotta Keith has written for C4ISR Journal and Hedge Fund Alert, where he broke [email protected] news of the 2007 Bear Stearns scandal that kicked off the global credit crisis. ASSOCIATE EDITOR PAGE 20 Karen Small [email protected] 25–29 JUNE 2018 ATLANTA, GEORGIA STAFF REPORTER Tom Risen Henry Canaday [email protected] A former energy economist, Henry has written for Air Transport World, EDITOR, AIAA BULLETIN Aviation Week and other aviation publications for more than two decades. Christine Williams PAGE 34 EXPANDING THE ENVELOPE: [email protected] EDITOR EMERITUS Jerry Grey PARTNERING FOR TRANSFORMATION CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Tom Jones Aerospace is in a time of transition. While sports cars in orbit grab global Keith Button, Henry Canaday, Tom fl ew on four space shuttle missions. On his last fl ight, STS-98, he Tom Jones, Robert van der Linden, headlines, the aviation community is quietly establishing new paradigms led three spacewalks to install the American Destiny Laboratory on the Joe Stumpe, Debra Werner, International Space Station. He has a doctorate in planetary sciences. that will have near-term, broad impacts on the way we interact with flying Frank H. Winter PAGE 14 machines. Through collaboration and innovation, established and emerging John Langford AIAA PRESIDENT aerospace companies are developing transformational technologies that Daniel L. Dumbacher PUBLISHER until now were only possible in science fiction. Rodger S. 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ASSOCIATE EDITOR PAGE 20 Karen Small [email protected] 25–29 JUNE 2018 ATLANTA, GEORGIA STAFF REPORTER Tom Risen Henry Canaday [email protected] A former energy economist, Henry has written for Air Transport World, EDITOR, AIAA BULLETIN Aviation Week and other aviation publications for more than two decades. Christine Williams PAGE 34 EXPANDING THE ENVELOPE: [email protected] EDITOR EMERITUS Jerry Grey PARTNERING FOR TRANSFORMATION CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Tom Jones Aerospace is in a time of transition. While sports cars in orbit grab global Keith Button, Henry Canaday, Tom fl ew on four space shuttle missions. On his last fl ight, STS-98, he Tom Jones, Robert van der Linden, headlines, the aviation community is quietly establishing new paradigms led three spacewalks to install the American Destiny Laboratory on the Joe Stumpe, Debra Werner, International Space Station. He has a doctorate in planetary sciences. that will have near-term, broad impacts on the way we interact with flying Frank H. Winter PAGE 14 machines. Through collaboration and innovation, established and emerging John Langford AIAA PRESIDENT aerospace companies are developing transformational technologies that Daniel L. Dumbacher PUBLISHER until now were only possible in science fiction. Rodger S. Williams DEPUTY PUBLISHER Joe Stumpe ADVERTISING A freelance reporter based in Wichita, Kansas, Joe has written for The New Be a part of the transformation at the AIAA AVIATION Forum. [email protected] York Times, Agence France-Presse and The Huffi ngton Post. PAGE 30 PLENARY AND
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