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Symposium Schedule (Amended July 26, 2010)
Monday – July 19, 2010
| 6:00 - 8:00 pm |
Registration and Reception (Faculty Lounge, Room A 632) |
Tuesday – July 20, 2010
| 8:00 - 9:00 am |
Registration (Atrium Amphitheater) |
| 9:00 - 9:15 am |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:15 - 10:50 am |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Roman Kezerashvili |
| 9:15 - 9:50 am |
History of Solar Sailing Flight Tests Louis Friedman1 and James Cantrell2 1The Planetary Society (USA) 2Strategic Space Development, Inc. (USA) |
| 9:50 - 10:10 am |
The Three-Step DLR-ESA Gossamer Road Map to Solar Sailing Franz Lura, Bernd Biering, Ulrich R.M.E. Geppert and R. Reinhard DLR, Institute for Space Systems (Germany) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 am |
GEOSAIL System Design for Demonstration of Solar Sailing in Earth Orbit Manfred Leipold, M. Macdonald, C. McInnes, S. Eckersley, P. Falkner and D. Agnolon Kayser-Threde GmbH (Germany) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 am |
Technology Requirements for Large, Ultralight Solar Sails Michael A. Brown US Naval research Laboratory (USA) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 12:30 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Junichiro Kawaguchi |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am |
Mission Analysis and Performance Comparison for an Advanced Solar Photon Thruster Bernd Dachwald1 and Patrick Wurm2 1FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany) 2RWTH Aachen University (Germany) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 am |
Lightsail 1 - Flying on Light for Less Jim Cantrell1 and Louis Friedman2 1Strategic Space Development Inc (USA) 2The Planetary Society (USA) |
| 11:50 - 12:10 pm |
Enhanced Heliostorm Mission Based on New Technology Roy Young NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (USA) |
| 12:10 - 12:30 pm |
Lightsail Chris Biddy Stellar Exploration (USA) |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch (Faculty Lounge, Room A 632) |
| 1:30 - 3:25 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Louis Friedman |
| 1:30 - 2:05 pm |
Solar Power Sail - Hybrid Propulsion and its Applications Junichiro Kawaguchi JAXA Space Exploration Center (Japan) |
| 2:05 - 2:25 pm |
World's First Demonstration of Solar Power Sailing by IKAROS Osamu Mori, Yuichi Tsuda, Hirotaka Sawada, Ryu Funase, Takayuki Yamamoto, Takanao Saiki, Katsuhide Yonekura, Hirokazu Hoshino, Hiroyuki Minamino, Tatsuya Endo, Junichiro Kawaguchi and IKAROS Demonstration Team JAXA Exploration Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan) |
| 2:25 - 2:45 pm |
Report on Deployment Solar Power Sail Mission of IKAROS Hirotaka Sawada1, Osamu Mori1, Nobukatsu Okuizumi1, Yoji Shirasawa2, Hiraku Sakamoto3, Hiroshi Furuya3, Saburo Matunaga3 and Yasuyuki Miyazaki4 1JAXA Exploration Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan) 2Tokyo University (Japan) 3Tokyo Tech (Japan) 4Nihon University (Japan) |
| 2:45 - 3:05 pm |
H2-Reversal Trajectory: a New Mission Application for High-Performance Solar Sails G. Mengali, A.A. Quarta, D. Romagnoli and C. Circi University of Pisa (Italy) German Aerospace Center (Germany) University of Rome (Italy) |
| 3:05 - 3:25 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:25 - 5:05 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Bong Wie |
| 3:25 - 3:45 pm |
Performance Analysis of an Attitude Control System for Solar Sails Using Sliding Masses Christina Scholz1, Daniele Romagnoli2 and Bernd Dachwald1 1FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany) 2German Aerospace Center - Institute of Aerospace Systems (Germany) |
| 3:45 - 4:05 pm |
Solar Sail Attitude Control Using a Combination of a Feedforward and a Feedback Controller D. Romagnoli and T. Oehlschlägel German Aerospace Center, Institute of Space Systems (Germany) |
| 4:05 - 4:25 pm |
The Solar Sail Materials (SSM) Project: Status of Activities F. Dalla Vedova1, H. Henrion2, M. Leipold3, Th. Girot4, R. Vaudemont5, Th. Belmonte6, K. Fleury7 and O. Le Couls8 1LuxSpace 2ULg/GDtech 3Kayser-Threde 4CRP Gabriel Lippmann 5CRP Henri Tudor 6INPL-LSGS 7CSL 8Astrium-EADS |
| 4:25 - 4:45 pm |
Oscillation-Free Attitude Controller Design for Spinning Solar Sail "IKAROS" and Its Flight Results Ryu Funase1, Yoji Shirasawa2, Yuya Mimasu3, Yoshinobu Okano4, Yuichi Tsuda1, Takanao Saiki1, Osamu Mori1, and Junichiro Kawaguchi1 1JAXA Space Exploration Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan) 2The University of Tokyo (Japan) 3Kyushu University (Japan) 4Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) |
| 4:45 - 5:05 pm |
FeatherSail - The Next Generation Nano-class Sail Vehicle Dean Alhorn NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (USA) |
| 6:30 pm | Banquet Restaurant: Bubby's Brooklyn, 1 Main Street |
Wednesday – July 21, 2010
| 9:00 - 10:35 am |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Manfred Leipold |
| 9:00 - 9:35 am |
Status of Solar Sail Technology Within NASA Les Johnson NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (USA) |
| 9:35 - 9:55 am |
TRL Assessment of the NASA 20-Meter System Ground Demonstrators Roy Young and Charlie Adams NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (USA) |
| 9:55 - 10:15 am |
Initial Design and Simulation of the LightSail-1 Attitude Determination and Control System Matt Nehrenz Stellar Exploration, Inc. (USA) |
| 10:15 - 10:35 am |
Description of a Realistic Solar Sail and Comparison to an Ideal Sail Bruce Campbell NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) |
| 10:35 - 10:55 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:55 - 12:15 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Bernd Dachwald |
| 10:55 - 11:15 am |
Studies on the utilization of solar sail in lunar exploration Zhao YuHui, Zhang Wei,Hou XiYun and Liu Lin Nanjing University (China) |
| 11:15 - 11:35 am |
The Hoop Solar-Photon Sail and Extrasolar Travel Gregory L. Matloff New York City College of Technology (USA) |
| 11:35 - 11:55 am |
U3P Solar Sail Education with French Students Adão Delehelle, Guy Pignolet, Jean-Yves Prado and Michael Pignolet-Hanna U3P - Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique (France) |
| 11:55 - 12:15 pm |
Analysis on Membrane Deployment Dynamics of solar power sail "IKAROS" Yoji Shirasawa1, Osamu Mori2, Nobukatsu Okuizumi2, Hirotaka Sawada2, Yasuyuki Miyazaki3, Hiraku Sakamoto4, Hiroshi Furuya4 and Saburo Matsunaga4 1The University of Tokyo (Japan) 2Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan) 3Nihon University (Japan) 4Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) |
| 12:15 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch (Faculty Lounge, Room A 632) |
| 1:15 - 3:10 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Timothy Van Sant |
| 1:15 - 1:50 pm |
Recent European Advances in Solar Sail Technologies and Fresh Plans for a Gossamer Structure In-Orbit Deployment of DLR in collaboration with ESA Manfred Leipold Kayser-Threde GmbH (Germany) |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm |
The Polar Meteorologist's Dream Machine: Artificial LaGrange Orbit Satellite Applications Via Arctic and Antarctic Composite Imagery Matthew A. Lazzara University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm |
Solar Sails in Artificial Lagrange Orbits as Environmental Remote Sensing Platforms Alex Coletti1, Ben Diedrich2 and Pat Mulligan2 1SM Resources Corp. (USA) 2NOAA/NESDIS (USA) |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm |
Practical Systems Design for an Earth Magnetotail Monitoring Solar Sail Mission Vaios Lappas1, Giovanni Mengali2, Alessandro Quarta2, Jesus Gil-Fernandez3, Tilo Schmidt4 and Bong Wie5 1University of Surrey (UK) 2University of Pisa (Italy) 3GMV (Spain) 4HTS (Germany) 5Iowa State University (USA) |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm |
Solar Sails for NOAA Operational Space Weather and Communications Applications Ben Diedrich and Pat Mulligan NOAA/NESDIS (USA) |
| 3:10 - 3:25 pm |
Ground Demonstration of a Retractable Solar Sail for Satellite Agility Jeremy A. Banik Space Vehicles Directorate Air Force Research Laboratory (USA) |
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm |
Excursion: Evening Tour of New York City |
| 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
Public Event with the Planetary Society Solar Sailing: Pathway to the Stars (Atrium Amphitheater) |
Thursday – July 22, 2010
| 9:00 - 10:35 am |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Malcolm Macdonald |
| 9:00 - 9:35 am |
Using a Solar Sail Mission to Test Fundamental Physics Roman Kezerashvili New York City College of Technology (USA) |
| 9:35 - 9:55 am |
Sailing between the Earth and Sun Ariadna Farres and Angel Jorba Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) |
| 9:55 - 10:15 am |
Novel Low Energy Pathways for Solar Sailing Edward Belbruno Princeton University and Innovative Orbital Design, Inc. (USA) |
| 10:15 - 10:35 am |
Solar Sailing and solar power generation by "Roller Reefing" Frank Ellinghaus Sinzheim (Germany) |
| 10:35 - 10:55 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:55 - 12:35 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Edward Belbruno |
| 10:55 - 11:15 am |
Mission Performance Evaluation for Solar Sails using a Refined SRP Force Model with Variable Optical Coefficients Andreas Borggräfe1 and Bernd Dachwald2 1RWTH Aachen University (Germany) 2FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany) |
| 11:15 - 11:35 am |
Numerical Methods to Generate Solar Sail Trajectories Geoffrey G. Wawrzyniak and Kathleen C. Howell Purdue University (USA) |
| 11:35 - 11:55 am |
Physical and Numerical Stability in the Simulated Pitch Slew of a Tow of Square Sails Gyula Greschik TentGuild Engineering Co. (USA) |
| 11:55 - 12:15 pm |
Spinning Solar Sail Steering via Spin Rate Control Yuya Mimasu1, Michihiro Matsumoto2, Ryu Funase2, Yuichi Tsuda2, Osamu Mori2 and Junichiro Kawaguchi2 1Kyushu University (Japan) 2Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan) |
| 12:35 - 1:35 pm |
Lunch (Faculty Lounge, Room A 632) |
| 1:35 - 3:10 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Les Johnson |
| 1:35 - 2:10 pm |
Solar Sail Mission Applications and Future Advancement Eur Ing Malcolm Macdonald and Colin McInnes University of Strathclyde (UK) |
| 2:10 - 2:30 pm |
CubeSail: A Low Cost Small Cubesat Mission for Solar Sailing and Deorbiting LEO Objects V. Lappas, L. Visagie, N. Adeli, T. Theodorou, J. Ferndnez, H. Steyn, O. Le Couls and M. Perren University of Surrey (UK) Stellnbosch University (South Africa) EADS-Astrium |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm |
A Nanosatellite Mission to Assess Solar Sail Performance in LEO Kieran A. Carroll1, Henry Spencer2, Robert E. Zee3 and George Vukovich4 1Gedex Inc. (Canada) 2SP Systems (Canada) 3University of Toronto (Canada) 4Canadian Space Agency (Canada) |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm |
Attitude Control of the CubeSail Solar Sailing Spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit Andrew Pukniel1, Victoria Coverstone1, Rodney Burton2 and David Carroll2 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) 2CU Aerospace, LLC (USA) |
| 3:10 - 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 5:20 pm |
Atrium Amphitheater | Chair: Roman Kezerashvili |
| 3:30 - 3:50 pm |
Interstellar Heliopause Probe - System Design of a Challenging Mission to 200 AU Manfred Leipold, V. Lappas, A. Lyngvi, P. Falkner, H. Fichtner and S. Kraft Kayser-Threde GmbH (Germany) |
| 3:50 - 4:10 pm |
Project Icarus: Solar Sail Technology for the Icarus Interstellar Mission Pat Galea Project Icarus (UK) |
| 4:10 - 4:30 pm |
Deflecting APOPHIS with a flotilla of Solar Sails Jean-Yves Prado, Olivier Boisard, Alain Perret, Guy Pignolet Union pour le Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique (France) |
| 4:30 - 4:50 pm |
A Near Term Pole-Sitter using Hybrid Solar Sail Propulsion Matteo Ceriotti and Colin McInnes University of Strathclyde (UK) |
| 4:50 - 5:20 pm |
Closing Remarks and Panel Discussion |
