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03GSPC_0304_EF_1 ©2003 Mevicon Inc

GSPCTechnical Affairs Sub Committee

ChairEric M. Flint, President

Mevicon Inc.2534 W. Middlefield Rd

Mountain View, CA 94043

(650) 969-2675www.mevicon.com

[email protected]

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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 ScheduleJournal

#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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AI’s: 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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AI’s: Historical AdvocacyGSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee

• Historical Focus Session(s) @ 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• Coordinate uploading of results with web site manager

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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– - IR– . . . - Optical

– How do we provide a focal point?• Generate a database of GSPC members (or friends?) who are active in the above

areas• Other Ideas ?

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