Summary of the Workshop to Identify Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs (2011)
Chapter: Appendix C: Workshop Agenda
MARCH 9, 2011
| 10:30 a.m. | Workshop Introduction Don Kessler, Chair | |
| 10:35 a.m. | Session 1: NASA Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs | |
| The leads for NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) programs will speak about program goals, issues, gaps, and opportunities. | ||
| Panelists: |
John Lyver, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Headquarters, Manager of NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Program Offices |
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Gene Stansbery, NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, Johnson Space Center |
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William Cooke, Meteoroid Environment Office, Marshall Space Flight Center |
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Eric Christiansen, Hypervelocity Impact Technology Group, Johnson Space Center/Human Exploration Science Office |
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Lauri Newman, NASA Robotic Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 12:45 p.m. | Session 2: NASA Mission Operators | |
| Project managers and system engineers from various NASA robotic missions will discuss MMOD issues from an operations standpoint. What MMOD-related problems do missions encounter throughout the lifetime of a spacecraft? How do NASA’s MMOD programs meet mission planners’ and operators’ needs? What information are mission managers using to make decisions related to the operations of a spacecraft, and how do mission managers make MMOD-related decisions? | ||
| Panelists: |
Michael Rhee, Systems Engineer, Global Precipitation Measurement Mission, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Mark Woodard, Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer, ARTEMIS Mission, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Patrick Crouse, Operations Project Manager, Hubble Space Telescope, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Glenn Shirtliffe, Project Manager, Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2 Missions, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Richard Burns, Program Manager, Space Science Mission Operations, Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 2:15 p.m. | Session 3: Role of NASA’s MMOD Programs and Their Relationship to Other Federal Agencies | |
| Representatives of U.S. government agencies involved in space policy, space and Earth science, and MMOD issues will discuss challenges they face from the space environment, interagency issues and opportunities for collaboration, and how and to what extent they engage NASA’s MMOD programs. | ||
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Andrew Palowitch, Director, Space Protection Program, Air Force Space Command/National Reconnaissance Office |
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Phil Brinkman, Program Lead for Licenses, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration |
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Mark Mulholland, Senior Advisor, Office of Systems Development, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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| Kenneth Hodgkins, Director, Space and Advanced Technology, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State | ||
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Karl Kensinger, Associate Division Chief, Satellite Division, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission |
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| 4:15 p.m. | Day 1 Adjourns | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Committee Working Dinner | |
MARCH 10, 2011
| 9:00 a.m. | Session 4: MMOD and the Commercial Industry Perspective | |
| Members of the aerospace and space insurance industries will talk about how MMOD affects business operations, from the manufacturing of spacecraft to making on-orbit decisions about a possible collision. What tools does industry use to make decisions affecting their space assets, what is industry’s relationship with NASA’s MMOD programs, and what opportunities for collaboration are there between industry and NASA? | ||
| Panelists: |
John Campbell, Lt. Gen. (ret.), USAF, Executive Vice President of Government Programs, Iridium Satellite Communications |
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Larry Price, Orion Deputy Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
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Chris Kunstadter, Senior Vice President, XL Insurance |
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| 10:45 a.m. | Session 5: Panel on Orbital Debris Retrieval and Removal | |
| The 2010 National Space Policy calls for U.S. government research and development efforts to be made to retrieve and remove orbital debris, but how will that policy be turned into action? Representatives of NASA’s technology development programs, the | ||
| Department of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President will talk about these efforts and what it will take to help engineer a safer space environment. | ||
| Panelists: |
Wilson Harkins, Deputy Chief, Safety Mission Assurance, NASA |
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Steven Meier, Director, Crosscutting Capability Demonstration Division, NASA Office of the Chief Technologist |
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Damon Wells, Senior Advisor, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch and Committee Working Lunch in Closed Session | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Discussion of Observations and Conclusions from Workshop | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Workshop Adjourns | |
