Awards Group Status

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Awards Group Status

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Awards Group Status

• Trevor C. Sorensen
• University of Hawaii
• Chair, Awards Group
• Presented to
• SpaceOps Organization Committee-at-Large
• NASA GSFC
• January 25, 2008

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Awards Group

• The Awards Group consists of
• Trevor Sorensen, University of Hawaii (Chair)
• Megan Scheidt, AIAA (Secretariat Liaison)
• Andy Dowen, NASA JPL
• Junjiro Nakahara/Narita Kaneaki, JAXA
• Kathy Kelly, NOAA
• Paolo Maldari, ESOC/ESA
• Surendra Parashar, CSA
• Jean Marc Soula/Geneviève Campan, CNES

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Current Awards

• International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
  Achievement (AOA)
• International SpaceOps Distinguished Service
  Medal (DSM)
• Best Paper of Conference (Symposium)

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International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
Achievement

• This award is presented for outstanding efforts
  in overcoming space operations and/or support
  challenges, and recognizes those teams or
  individuals whose exceptional contributions were
  critical to the success of one or more space
  missions.

One award every two years
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International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
Achievement

• Trophy with accompanying certificate in
  presentation folder
• If presented to team, then host organization
  would receive the award and the team members each
  a certificate
• The recipient (team leader) shall be offered a
  complimentary full registration to the conference
  at which the award will be presented. If the team
  leader is unable to attend the conference, then
  they may send another team member in their place
  with the complimentary registration, as long as
  that person will be able to receive the award at
  the awards ceremony.

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International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
Achievement

• Proposed Addition
• Awardee will be invited to write a paper about
  the event for which the award was made to be
  reviewed and published in the Space Operations
  Communicator

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International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
Achievement

• Process Summary
• Call for nominations 1 year in advance (after
  AIAA SOS Award)
• SpaceOps and AIAA websites
• Aerospace America, Space Operations Communicator
• Nominations entered via SpaceOps Portal due
  February 1
• Nominations (min. 3) transferred by AIAA to AG
  Chair, who distributes qualified nominations to
  AG by February 15
• AG secretly votes by e-mail to Secretariat by
  March 1, who sends results to AG (tie-breaker or
  non-majority re-vote if necessary)
• AG Chair reports results to ExComm/CAL who vote
  to validate selection
• Awardee information forwarded to AIAA for award
  preparation by March 15 and awardee is notified
  to make arrangements to attend conference.

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International SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal

• This award is presented to give unique
  recognition to an individual member of the
  international Space Operations community who has
  distinguished himself or herself with service to
  the Space Ops organization or to the field of
  space operations and support. The recipient shall
  be an individual who has shown particular
  dedication to the interests of the organization
  or space ops field by making significant and
  continuing contributions over an extended period
  of time.

Up to three awards every two years
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International SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal

• Medal with neck ribbon and matching lapel pin in
  presentation case with accompanying 11 x 14
  certificate in linen, imitation leather
  presentation folder with SpaceOps logo
• The reverse of the medal shall be engraved with
  the award name, recipients name, and date of the
  award.
• The recipient shall be offered a complimentary
  full registration to the conference at which the
  award will be presented. If the recipient is
  unable to attend the conference, this
  complimentary registration is not transferable.

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International SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal

• Process Summary
• Call for nominations 1 year in advance (after
  AIAA SOS Award)
• SpaceOps and AIAA websites
• Aerospace America, Space Operations Communicator
• Nominations entered via SpaceOps Portal due
  February 1
• Nominations transferred by AIAA to AG Chair, who
  distributes qualified nominations to AG by
  February 15
• AG secretly votes (for up to 3) by e-mail to
  Secretariat by March 1, who sends results to AG
  (tie-breaker or non-majority re-vote if
  necessary)
• AG Chair reports results to ExComm/CAL who vote
  to validate selection(s)
• Awardee information forwarded to AIAA for award
  preparation by March 15 and awardee(s) are
  notified to make arrangements to attend
  conference.

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AOA DSM Awards Timeline

• Nominal Schedule
• 1 February Nomination Deadline
• 15 February .. Distribute Nominations
  to AG
• 1 March AG Selection Verified by
  CAL
• No later than 15 March Notify Secretariat
  of award recipient
• 12-16 May. SpaceOps Conference

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Nominations Received to Date

• AOA
• Ulysses Missions Operations Team
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Planning and
  Data Accountability Team
• DSM
• John Rodgers
• Herwig Laue

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Best Paper of Conference Award

• This award is to recognize the most outstanding
  paper of the conference. The paper should be
  exceptional in technical content, have an
  important impact on the field of space
  operations, or report on important historical
  events that are of importance to the community.
  The quality of the written presentation may be
  considered.

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Best Paper of Conference Award

• Description
• A certificate (signed by SpaceOps Chair) on which
  is printed a citation of up to 25 words shall be
  presented to each author of the winning paper.
  The certificate shall be 8.5 x 11 inches with
  presentation folder
• Winning paper shall be included (with required
  modifications) in the book of best papers of the
  symposium as published by AIAA (if any), and the
  Space Operations Communicator online journal.
  proposed change
• There shall not be a monetary reward accompanying
  this award

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Best Paper of Conference Award

• Process
• The Best Paper Award selection shall be performed
  by the Enhanced Technical Program Committee
  (ETPC), since the ETPC is composed by sessions
  Chairs and Co-chairs, whose tasks, among others
  will be to analyze in some detail the submitted
  final papers in order to prepare for the
  questions/answers slot following each
  presentation.
• The selection process shall be in three major
  steps as follows
• Step 1) Chair and Co-chair of a session (e.g.
  SW Development I) agree on the best paper for
  that session.
• Step 2) Chairs of sessions on same topic (e.g.
  SW Development I, SW Development II, SW
  Development III etc.) analyze the papers selected
  in Step 1, agree on the best paper for the topic
  and select a 'representative' to defend their
  selection.
• Step 3) 'Representatives' of the different
  topics to analyze the papers selected in Step 2
  and to elect first, second and third best papers.

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International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding
Achievement

• Specific Rules and Regulations
• a. The SpaceOps Outstanding Achievement award
  shall be biennial and presented at the biennial
  SpaceOps Conference (typically at the banquet).
• b. Only one (1) award shall be made biennially.
• c. A maximum of 10 members may be on a nominated
  team, and a team leader must be designated.
• d. The SpaceOps Organization shall issue a call
  for nominations approximately one year before the
  conference. SpaceOps should not call for
  nominations until the AIAA Space Operations and
  Support award has been presented in order to
  avoid confusion.
• e. Past recipients of the AIAA Space Operations
  and Support Award are not eligible for the
  SpaceOps Outstanding Achievement Award unless it
  is for a distinctly different accomplishment.
• f. The event for which the award is bestowed
  shall not have occurred more than five (5) years
  prior to the conference at which the award will
  be presented. A waiver for this rule may be
  granted upon a majority vote by the Awards Group
  subcommittee (minimum of three voting members).
• g. Anyone may nominate candidates for this award.
  Neither the nominator nor the nominee needs to be
  a member of SpaceOps or AIAA.
• h. A minimum of three (3) candidates must be
  nominated via the SpaceOps nomination process in
  order for the award to be presented. A waiver for
  this rule may be granted upon a majority vote by
  the Awards Group subcommittee (minimum of three
  voting members).
• i. Three individuals (excluding from the local
  organization of the nominee or nominated team)
  must provide letters of endorsement for each
  proposed nomination.
• j. Qualified nominations shall be accepted in the
  year the nominations open, then carried over for
  two years to be included in the next nomination
  cycle, thus shall be considered for a total of
  three years. This rule does not overrule Rule
  2.1.3 f.

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International SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal

• Specific Rules and Regulations
• a. The SpaceOps Distinguished Service Medal award
  shall be biennial and presented at the biennial
  SpaceOps Conference (typically at the banquet).
• b. Up to three (3) awards may be made biennially.
  No award needs to be made at any given
  conference.
• c. The SpaceOps Organization shall issue a call
  for nominations approximately one year before the
  conference. However, the nomination process is
  continuous and nominations can be made at any
  time regardless of the conference cycle.
• d. Only one candidate needs to be nominated via
  the AIAA/SpaceOps nomination process in order for
  the award to be presented.
• e. Anyone may nominate candidates for this award.
  
• f. Each nominator can nominate up to three (3)
  recipients.
• g. No sitting member of the Awards Group
  Subcommittee shall be eligible to receive the
  DSM.
• h. Length of service to space operations shall be
  an important factor in the selection of
  candidates. The length of service includes all
  space operations activities and not just to the
  SpaceOps Organization, although the time of
  service to the SpaceOps Organization shall weigh
  greater than the time of other service (i.e., of
  more value).

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Best Paper of Conference Award

• Rules Regulations
• a. Only one (1) award shall be made for each
  conference.
• The author(s) of the paper shall receive their
  certificates at the conference during a
  designated awards ceremony (closing ceremony
  preferred).
• All papers shall be considered equally,
  regardless of whether they are designated for
  oral or poster presentation.
• Plenary papers shall not be considered.
• No individual shall be eligible for the award for
  more than one paper in which the person is the
  primary author.
• The paper must be presented at the conference for
  it to be eligible to receive the award. (Presence
  of a presenter and presentation materials is
  considered to be sufficient as proof of
  presentation).
• The quality of the presentation shall not be
  considered in selecting the winning paper.
• The names of the recipient(s) along with the
  title of their paper(s) shall be forwarded to the
  Director of AIAA Awards and Honors for
  preparation of the certificates. If this does not
  occur in time for the individualized certificates
  to be prepared for presentation at the
  conference, then generic temporary certificates
  shall be presented, to be replaced by the final
  certificates after the conference