Symposium Schedule

 

Thursday, April 26, 2001

7:30 - 8:30 am

 

Kossiakoff Conference Center – Auditorium

Continental Breakfast

 

Sponsored by

 

8:30 am

7Th Annual SOSTC/AIAA Workshop on

Reducing the Cost of Space Operations

 

8:30 - 12:10 pm

 

Session 3 Part 1

Telemetry Tracking & Command

Session Chair Richard Huebschman

The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

 

 


 

8:30 - 8:50 am

10.7-cm Solar Flux Prediction and

Application to Ground-track Maintenance

R. Sergio Hasebe

Aeroflex-Altair Cybernetics, USA

Jeffrey Jennings

Computer Science Corporation, USA

 

 

8:50 - 9:10 am

VC Data Files Merging Processing for ROCSAT-1 Mission

Shin-Fa Lin, John Y. H. Wang,

National Space Program Office, R.O.C.

 

 

9:10 - 9:30 am

A Design for a Low Cost IP-based VSAT System


Isao Nakajima, Hiroshi Juzoji

Tokai University, Japan

Hiroshi Mano

Root Inc., Japan


 

Masato Hata

ICAT Inc., Japan



 

 

9:30 - 9:50 am

Standardizing NASA's Ground Network Services


 Steven E. Kremer

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Robert Stelmaszek

ITT Indust., USA

Mark Burns

ITT Indust., USA

Patricia Gravatt

ITT Indust., USA


 

 

9:50 - 10:10 am

Telemetry Routing, Archive and Retrieval: a Flexible, Re-Usable Architecture

Priscilla Mckerracher, Ken Heeres, Paul Lafferty, Kevin Lyons

 The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

 

 

10:10 – 10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:30 - 12:10 pm

Session 3 Part 2

 

Telemetry Tracking & Command

Session Chair Alice Bowman

The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

 

 

10:30 - 10:50 am

Three Years of Low-cost Acquisition of Space Weather Data

Dr. Peter Allan

CLRC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England

 

 

10:50 - 11:10 am

Reducing the Cost of Ground Station Equipment Control Software

Henry K. DeWitt

DeWitt and Associates, Inc., USA

 

 

11:10 - 11:30 am

DataLynxTM

Supporting Government Activities Through a Commercial Service

Stephanie Gonzales, Eliane Larduinat, Steve Tobin

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., USA

 

11:30 - 11:50 am

Telemetry Tracking & Control (TT&C) – First TDRSS, then Commercial GEO & Big LEO and Now Through LEO


Dwayne R. Morgan

NASA/GSFC/WFF, USA

Ronald G. Streich

Computer Sciences Corp., USA

Barton Bull

NASA/GSFC/WFF, USA

Charles Grant

Computer Sciences Corp., USA


 

11:50 - 12:10 pm

Adapting a Telemetry Receiver as an EGSE

Dr. Peter Allan

CLRC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England

 

 

12:10 - 1:20 pm

Lunch

 

Speaker

Mark Holdridge

Mission Operations Manager NEAR Shoemaker

Mission Operations Manager CONTOUR

The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

 

 

NEAR Shoemaker's Soft Landing on Asteroid Eros

Little Teams Can Do Big Things Too

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by


 

1:20 - 3:00 pm

 

Session 4

Mission Operations

Session Chair Stephanie M.Gonzales

Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., USA

 

1:20 - 1:40 pm

Reducing Costs of the Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission through Automated Planning

Ben Smith, Barbara Engelhardt, Darren Mutz

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

 

 

1:40 - 2:00 pm

Multi-Spacecraft Operations Workload Assessment Model

Ket D. Dang, Richard R. Campion, Evan Eller

Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., USA

 

 

2:00 - 2:20 pm

Low-Cost Mission Operations Concept for the Next Generation Space Telescope


Trevor C. Sorensen

University of Kansas U.S.A

Richard R. Campion

Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., USA

John C. Isaacs III

Space Telescope Science  Institute, USA

Jonathan S. Gal-Edd

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA


 

 

2:20 - 2:40 pm

Low Cost Ground Segments Alternatives for ESA's Earth Explorer Satellites Operations

Bernard Mommeja, Jean Muller

Astrium, France

 

 

2:40 - 3:00 pm

Orbital Analysis Automation Initiative

Thaer A. Zori

Naval Satellite Operations Center, USA

LT Michael S. Mattis, USN

Naval Satellite Operations Center, USA

 

 

3:00 - 3:20 p m.

Break


 

3:20 - 5:00 pm

 

Session 5

Data Processing

Session Chair Richard Holdaway

Director, Space Science

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

 

 

3:20 - 3:40 pm

An Autonomous Lights Out Level Zero Processing System

Jim Busch

Computer Science Corporation, USA

 

 

3:40 - 4:00 pm

Earth Observing System (EOS) Science Data Processing Code Performance Enhancement

Dr. Fred J. Gunther, Dr. George Neal

Computer Science Corporation, USA

 

 

4:00 - 4:20 pm

Autonomous Telemetry Data Processing


Chandru Mirchandani

Lockheed – Martin Space Mission Systems, USA

Parminder Ghuman

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA


 

 

4:20 - 4:40 pm

The CCSDS Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model

Dr. Peter Allan

CLRC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England

 

 

4:40 - 5:00 pm

A Universal Technology for Development of Satellite Data Storage Systems

E. A. Loupian, A. A. Mazurov, R. R. Nazirov, A. A. Proshin, E. V. Flitman

Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

 


 

6:00 - 7:00 pm

 

Kossiakoff Conference Center – Dining Area

Cocktail Reception

Sponsored by

 

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7:00 - 9:00 pm

Banquet

 

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Jones

Destiny in Space

 

A distinguished graduate of the USAF Academy, Dr. Jones served on active duty as an Air Force officer for 6 years.  After pilot training he flew strategic bombers at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.  As pilot and aircraft commander of a B-52D Stratofortress, he led a combat crew of six, accumulating over 2,000 hours of jet experience before resigning as a captain in 1983.

From 1983 to 1990, Dr. Jones worked as program manager at CIA’s Office of Development and Engineering; as a senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation; and then was selected by NASA for astronaut training. In 1994 he flew as mission specialist on successive flights of space shuttle Endeavor.  First, he ran science operations on the “night shift” during STS-59, the first flight of the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1).  Then, in October of 1994, he was the payload commander on the SRL-2 mission, STS-68.  He next flew in late 1996 on Columbia.  Mission STS-80 successfully deployed and retrieved 2 science satellites, ORFEUS/SPAS and the Wake Shield Facility.  While helping set a Shuttle endurance record of nearly 18 days in orbit, Dr. Jones used Columbia’s robot arm to release the Wake Shield satellite and later grapple it from orbit.  Mission STS-98 (Atlantis) delivered the U.S. Destiny Laboratory Module to the space station.  Dr. Jones helped install the Lab in a series of 3 space walks totaling over 19 EVA hours.  A veteran of 4 space flights, Dr. Jones has logged over 52 days in space.