GSPC Technical Affairs Sub Committee

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GSPCTechnical Affairs Sub Committee

• Chair
• Eric M. Flint, President
• Mevicon Inc.
• 2534 W. Middlefield Rd
• Mountain View, CA 94043
• [phone]
• www.mevicon.com
• Eric.flint_at_mevicon.com

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Responsibilities/ScopeGSPC Technical Affairs
Subcommittee

• Core
• Support AIAA Journals.
• Provide focal point for technical expertise in
  each main discipline of Gossamer spacecraft.
• Historical Advocacy
• Organize a session every few years at the SDM to
  provide a forum for the presentation of Gossamer
  spacecraft related historical materials.
  Coordinate with the GSF Technical and Program
  Chairs.
• Facilitate public access to technical information
  on historically significant Gossamer spacecraft
  systems.
• Encourage the use of history as a teacher for
  future Gossamer spacecraft systems.
• Standards Advocacy
• Provide continuing liaison with AIAA standards
  activities committee and other technical society
  groups.
• Organize and implement methods of
  standardization.
• Above per Interpretation of GSPC Charter

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Current Roster (as of 10/03)GSPC Technical
Affairs Subcommittee

• Brett DeBlonk (AFRL)
• Houfei Fang (JPL)
• Eric Flint (Mevicon Inc.) Sub Committee Chair
• Akilash Jha (Nextgen Aero)
• Jim Moore (SRS)
• Tom Murphey (AFRL)
• Gunnar Tibert (University of Sweden)
• Jason Tolomeo (Lockheed Martin)
• Peter Warren (Foster Miller)

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Yearly ScheduleGSPC Technical Affairs
Subcommittee
Activity Output Schedule
Journal
1) Solicit papers for journal publication Papers Throughout the year
2) Support Gossamer Technologies Article/s for Aerospace America Provide input (as requested) to principal point of contact (External affairs and/or Secretary) As directed by GSPC
Historical Advocacy
3) GSF session on Gossamer spacecraft history Select session theme During previous GSF, every 2 to 3 years
Invite papers Abstracts typically due in August
4) History Advocacy Projects Special projects Select/Announce at Spring meeting
Standards
5) Standards Working Group Recommend standards projects to be supported by GSPC Report status
Implement applicable projects As required
6) Standards projects Perform tasks as determined by AIAA standard focal As required
Reporting
7) Support GSPC annual report Submit input to Chair February
8) Activity report Summary of accomplishments At each GSPC meeting
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AIs Technical LiteratureGSPC Technical
Affairs Subcommittee

• Journals (Activity 1)
• Establish working sub-group or find volunteer to
  encourage conference authors to submit to
  journals
• Perhaps drawn from Best Paper Competition?
• Generate List of Volunteer Reviewers to Forward
  to relevant AIAA Journal Editor/Associate Editors
• Aerospace America Article (Activity 2)
• Interest in supporting Special Article/GSPC White
  Paper, ???
• Establish level of interest/relevancy
• Establish working group or volunteer to spearhead
  effort
• Establish effective non-partisan or
  all-partisan review procedure

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AIs Historical AdvocacyGSPC Technical Affairs
Subcommittee

• Historical Focus Session(s) _at_ next SDM/GSF
  Activity (3)
• Generate Ideas
• Echo I II
• Robert Forward Retrospective
• Solar Sails
• . . .
• Identify lead session coordinators
• Coordinate with 2005 Technical Chair (Prof.
  Suzanne Smith)
• History Advocacy Projects Activity (4)
• Brainstorm on Possible Projects
• Down Select
• Identify this years effort, effort lead, POC,
  and/or working group
• Implement
• One Possible Idea Generate Historical Reading
  List (For web site)
• Gather references (eg.)
• A History of Project Echo, Donald Elder, AAS
  History Series, Volume 16, 1995
• The Coming Age of Solar Energy D.S. Halacy Jr.,
  Harper and Row, 1963,
• . . .
• Poll user community using GSPC Email list

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GSPCTechnical Affairs Subcommittee

• Action Items
• Add definition to what one of our core
  responsibilities really means
• Provide focal point for technical expertise in
  each main discipline of Gossamer spacecraft
• We need to come to a common agreement on what
  these major disciplines are
• Possibilities include
• Technologies/Components Application Areas
• Coatings - Support Structures
• Materials - Sun Shields
• Structures - Solar Sails
• Packaging - Thin Film Solar Cell
  Arrays
• Deployment - Concentrators
• Rigidization Techniques - For Power
  Generation
• Structural Dynamics - For SOTV
• Attitude Control Aspects - Occulters
• Active Control Aspects - Apertures
• Inflation Systems - Communication
• - SAR