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| NAME | INTRO |
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| Tim Pickens | Tim Pickens is the President and founder of Orion Propulsion. Mr. Pickens
worked for several small, aggressive aerospace start-ups before launching his
own company. He has more than a decade of experience in the aerospace industry
and has worked on multiple programs that involved all aspects of launch vehicle
development, design, fabrication, testing, launch ops, and recovery.
Tim Pickens led the development of a hybrid rocket vehicle with the Huntsville,
Alabama L5 Society (HAL5). This vehicle became the world’s highest flying
amateur rocket, achieving an altitude of 36 miles as documented in the Guinness
Book of World Records 2000 Edition. In addition, he co-designed a 50,000 pound
thrust regeneratively-cooled rocket motor for NASA on the Fastrac Block II
engine program. Mr. Pickens worked as in-house propulsion lead for Burt Rutan
(Scaled Composites, LLC) on SpaceShipOne. Today his company provides support
services to a number of innovative aerospace companies, including t/Space and
Airlaunch LLC. |
| Bruce Betts | |
| J. Storrs Hall | J. Storrs Hall, PhD., is Chief Scientist at Nanorex Inc., and a research fellow
at the Molecular Engineering Research Institute and at the Institute for
Molecular Manufacturing. He is the author of "Nanofuture: What's Next for
Nanotechnology" (Prometheus, 2005). He is the inventor of Utility Fog, and an
independent co-inventor of adiabatic logic and of agoric operating systems. He
founded the Usenet sci.nanotech group in 1988 and has been involved in
nanotechnology research ever since. |
| Henry W. Brandhorst, Jr. | Dr. Brandhorst received his BS from the University of
Oklahoma and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is
Director of the Center for Space Power and Advanced
Electronics (CSPAE, a NASA Research Partnership Center)
and Director of the Space Research Institute at Auburn
University. He has specialized in a wide variety of space
and terrestrial power systems over his career and is
focusing on lightweight solar arrays, free piston Stirling
engines, electric propulsion systems and hypervelocity
impact studies. The CSPAE works with industry partners to
develop technologies that meet NASA mission needs as well
as industry partners' commercial interests.
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| Tom Hill | Tom Hill is a practicing aerospace engineer by day and a
space activist by
night. He has served in the US Air Force and currently works with America's
weather satellites. As an author, he's written several articles for web-based
publications and recently completed a book entitled Space: What Now? The
Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Activities in Space. In space activism,
he's lead several grass-roots projects and lobbied Congress on behalf of
space efforts.
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| Richard L. Fork | Dr. Fork received his PhD in Physics from (MIT) in 1962. He is currently
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UAH. He was Professor of
Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1990-1994 and Member of
Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs from 1962-1990. He is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society and Fellow of the Optical Society of America and has
multiple awards for advances in laser technology. Dr. Fork is currently working
on high power solid state lasers. His recent support is from the Army Research
Office and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. |
| Dae-Sung Ju | Graduated University Inha majoring in aeronautical
engineering at Incheon, Korea.
Worked for the Hyundai Group since 1994 after release from the
military service.
Trained in and worked for (a business firm) an affiliate of
the Group as an system engineer of liquid rocket engine
(methan/oxygen, kerosene/oxygen engine) till 2004.
At present a research engineer at C&SPACE Inc. which belongs to the Vitzro
Group also in Korea and also a doctoral candidate in University Yonsei in
Seoul, Korea.
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| Seth Potter | Seth Potter holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics from Columbia
University and a Doctorate in Applied Science from New York University. He is
an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company in El Segundo, California,
where his work has included satellite servicing, space solar power, Mars
exploration, lunar exploration, communications satellites, and navigation
satellites. He has written or co-written approximately 30 articles, papers, and
book chapters in the fields of space solar power, space telescope servicing,
wireless power transmission, advanced space missions, and energy. He is also a
member of the Board of Advisors of the National Space Society. |
| ID | TITLE | ABSTRACT |
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| 181 | How Grass Roots Space Efforts Create New Arerospace Businesses | A presentation on current and future projects of small areospace businesses
and the impact they will have on the industry as a whole. Mr. Pickens' talk
will include his personal experience, with an emphasis on SpaceShipOne. In
addition, Mr. Pickens will discuss the players in the small business arena
(Orion Propulsion, Scaled Composties, AirLaunch and T-Space)and how the
upcoming USAF ARES proposal will impact the aerospace industry. |
| 146 | Orion Propulsion and the X PRIZE | |
| 152 | Planetary Society projects incl. the world's first solar sail | |
| 17 | A Space Pier | Tsiolkovsky first conceived the notion of a static
structure allowing access to orbit on seeing the Eiffel
Tower. Since that time, numerous variants on the idea
have been studied, the most popular being a synchronous
satellite having a tension member reaching Earth's
surface.
However, a considerably smaller structure using
materials available with technology closer to the state
of the art is possible, which would provide inexpensive
(non-rocket) access to LEO. The structure consists of a
tower, 100 km tall by 300 km long, which would have an
electromagnetic launcher along the top. I refer to such
a tower as a space pier since, like a pier for water
ships, it extends just to the point where the vessels it
services can operate.
A reference design, presented here, calls for 10 tonne
payloads accelerated at just over 10 G's to LEO. Variants,
possibly the same tower operating in different modes,
could launch smaller packages to escape velocity at 20
G's, or into transfer orbits to Mars or Venus at 22 G's.
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| 18 | Power and Propulsion Technologies Update | The Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics is a
NASA Research Partnership Center. As such, we develop
technologies that are applicable to future NASA missions
and that an industry partner wishes to develop for their
commercial interests. Technology development efforts in
the center that will be discussed encompass lightweight
concentrator solar arrays, a hypervelocity impact facility
for testing spacecraft materials against micrometeoroid
impacts in space, new power processing technologies for
the pulsed inductive thruster electric propulsion system,
high temperature SiC-based power circuits for space and
free piston Stirling engine power convertors for both
terrestrial and space applications.
The lightweight solar array concept that is being
developed with ENTECH, Inc. is the Stretched Lens Array
(SLA). It consists of a linear Fresnel lens made from
space-durable silicone rubber that concentrates sunlight 8-
fold onto small multijunction solar cells. Array
efficiencies over 27% have been demonstrated. As part of
this effort we have been exploring the use of
PolyOligomericSilSesquioxanes (POSS) developed by Hybrid
Plastics, Inc. as a unique glass-like material for
encapsulating thin film and crystalline solar cell arrays
as a substitute for the cover glass/adhesive combination
now in use. If fully successful, this material will lead
to much less costly solar arrays.
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| 22 | Orbital Supply Depots | Robert Heinlein was quoted as saying ^ÓOnce you^Òre in low Earth orbit (LEO),
you^Òre halfway to anywhere.^Ô This is due to the mechanics of space launch,
where accelerating into LEO is a large portion of your journey. As a
corollary,
storing mass in LEO is a way to make trips beyond LEO easier. This paper
discusses a project that, for on the order of $1B, creates a flexible cache of
rocket propellants (hydrogen and oxygen) and human consumption supplies
(oxygen and water) in low Earth orbit. Part of the project involves increasing
launch vehicle flight rates through open competition, which will lower the
per-kilogram cost of launching payloads into LEO. Exploiting this cache will
cut the launch weights of interplanetary spacecraft by up to 2/3. This
material, stored on orbit for years, would serve any space mission. The plan
is modeled after historical cases that jump-started the airline industry, and
calls for the best of governmental and/or commercial efforts to get us half
way to anywhere. |
| 101 | Development of an Optically Based Power Infrastructure for Earth | We explore development issues relevant to an optically based power
infrastructure in Earth-moon space. The goal is a “sustainable, affordable, and
flexible … energy rich environment” supporting human and robotic activities in
the region of space extending from Earth out to, and including, our moon. The
goal is to deliver power in the needed amount, e.g. > 100 kW average power, in
a useful form, such as electrical power, virtually anywhere and virtually
anytime in Earth-moon space. The constraints set by fundamental physical laws
are distinguished from those set by the need to develop technology. We conclude
fundamental physical laws allow such an optical power infrastructure. The need
appears to be the challenging, but possible, task of identifying and developing
the needed technologies. We conclude that the technology needed to support a
prototypical optical power infrastructure in Earth-moon space could be realized
within a 10-40 year time frame. We examine four specific areas of technology
development required for this prototypical optical power infrastructure in
Earth-moon space. Our intent is an infrastructure similar to our existing
terrestrial electrical power infrastructure; however, with the differences that
we seek to distribute power by means of coherent light and we seek to
distribute that power virtually anywhere in Earth-moon space, including the
lunar surface, as opposed to only on the surface of Earth. We include as part
of this optical power infrastructure in Earth-moon space the technology
required to transform coherent light at the receiving location to a useful form
of alternative power, such as electrical power, at high efficiency, e.g. >80%. |
| 31 | Suborbital manned vehicle (VTHL) using methane rocket engine | A variety of space launcher missions are finally reaching
the tourists^Ò needs to get them to the space. It might not
be so long until any vehicle would be made enough to meet
what they want. Among those transportation means, a
vehicle from Korea will be a member coming up to an
altitude over 100km followed by the return maneuver
composed of reentry and non-powered flight (sailplaning)
onto the runway where it was launched vertically (VTHL) by
the help of a liquid rocket engine. Lately, the engine
based on a demonstrator that is featured by the fuel
methane satisfactory in its economical, environments-
friendly and reusability aspects as well as performance has
been studied vigorously lately. In order to construct the
10tf-thrust engine with turbo-pump feeding the propellants
of liquid oxygen and methane (LNG), mission analysis,
engine concept design, thrust chamber design and its
prototype testing, turbo-pump design and its prototype
testing and etc. are performed.
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| 145 | Orbital Express Satellite Servicing Overview | The Orbital Express satellite servicing system provides a cost effective method
using a standard industry wide architecture for autonomous satellite servicing.
Mission paradigms change:
• Satellite design and conops evolve to take advantage of servicing
capability
• Contingency operations are achievable
Satellites can maneuver on demand
• To obtain the right information at the right place at the right time
• To increase surveillance
Components can be upgraded
• Dramatically reduce time to market of new technologies, increasing
mission performance
• Reconfigure for changing mission needs
Program demonstrates key enabling technologies for In-Space Servicing:
-Servicing Vehicle rendezvous with and captures client spacecraft;
-Fluid Transfer;
-Component Transfer;
-On-Orbit Assembly.
Enables NASA Exploration Initiative.
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