SE meeting

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GSGC ESMD
SE meeting Shreveport, Louisiana September 14,
2007
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Capstone Senior Space Design Projects

• Curriculum
• Year long undergraduate series of classes in
  space systems design
• Fall semester
• Spacecraft subsystems design course
• Structures, propulsion, guidance, navigation and
  control, command and data handling, power,
  mission design, launch vehicle design, cost and
  schedule estimation

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Capstone Senior Space Design Projects

• Spring Semester
• Class divided into competing teams of 5-6
  students
• Instructor provide space systems RFP
• Students manage each team, perform all design
  activities and prepare a proposal detailing their
  system concept.
• Each team completes design concept and receives
  feedback through two external reviews

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Capstone Senior Space Design Projects

• Spring Semester
• external reviews
• By senior engineers from NASA and industry
• reviews provide significant technical, management
  and cost feedback
• vital to completion of the course
• students tend to cite this feedback as one of the
  highlights of the course

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Capstone Senior Space Design Projects

• Highest-rated proposal(s) win chance to represent
  Institute
• National Space Systems Design competitions
• Technical Conferences

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Spring 2007 Project

• Mineralogical assay of the near-Earth asteroid,
  Apophis
• Anticipated to fly near the Earth in 2029 and
  again in 2035
• Student team developed mission and flight system
  concept
• Rendezvous
• Navigation infrastructure
• Perform mineralogical assay

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Spring 2007 Project

• Mission and flight system design must complete
  its in-situ investigation prior to end of
  calendar year 2016
• Allow for implementation of a follow-on mission
• Resource mining
• Earth deflection
• in one of the two Earth flyby opportunities
  (2029,2035)

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Spring 2007 Project

• Major project constraints
• Rendezvous with Apophis and return all data prior
  to Dec 31, 2016
• Complete mission for total lifecycle cost lt500M
  (FY07)

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Spring 2007 Project

• Major project constraints (cont.)
• Investigations must be performed in-situ
• No Earth-based observation
• Complete mission flight system must be proposed
  
• No instrument-only missions
• NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study
  implemented as planned and systems are available
  for use

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Spring 2007 Project

• Teams
• 26 students
• 5 teams Asti, Axis, Neostorm, Oracle and Pharos
• Team's final proposal and presentation provided
  on class website http//www.ae.gatech.edu/people/
  rbraun/classes/spacesystems07/Proposals/index.html
  

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Spring 2007 Project

• Rating
• Three teams selected to present their projects at
  technical conferences and competitions
• ORACLE team
• 2007 USRA Lunar and Planetary Institute RASC-AL
  Forum Galveston, Texas on May 20-24, 2007
• PHAROS team
• Planetary Society Apophis mission design
  competition
• NASA ESMD Systems Engineering Competition
• ASTI team
• AIAA undergraduate space systems design
  competition.

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The winner is

• PHAROS
• Second Place
• NASA ESMD Systems Engineering Competition

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The winner is

• Team Name  BLASST Space Systems
• Pharos  Shedding Light on the Near-Earth
  Asteroid Apophis
• Award  250/team member

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Internships

• Electric Propulsion
• Space Propulsion Lab-Dr. Mitchell Walker
• Aerospace Engineering-Georgia Tech
• Kyle  Hott
• 5th year Senior
• Applied Physiology and Intelligent Control
  Systems Lab.
• Dr. Minoru Shinohara
• Ashley Johnson
• PhD, ECE
• Analysis of Polysomnic data
• Identification of neurophysiologic mechanisms
  affecting motor functions due to heightened
  sympathetic nervous activity in humans
• Long-term space travel effects on Astronauts
  motor performance and re-adaptation

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Internships

• KSFC
• Fluid systems engineering design group
• Ground System Equipment (GSE) Design
• Sarah McNeese
• Junior, AE GT
• Career Goal work for NASA
• Mr. Rogelio Franco, mentor
• Design of Environmental Control System (ECS) for
  new Mobile Launcher (ML)

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2008 Internships

• Collaborative Industry/NASA/University Projects
• Honeywell Aerospace, Defense and Space Systems
• Clearwater FL
• GSFC
• GSGC
• Mercer University
• Dr. Phil Olivier

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2008 Internships

• Honeywell Aerospace, Defense and Space Systems
• Mentor Dr. Hohn R. Samson, Jr., PEF
• Project Fuzzy Neural control of Tetrahedral
  Robots
• Research/development activities related to the
  Autonomous Nanotechnology Swarms (ANTS) effort
• Reconfigurable tetrahedral robot architecture
  proposed by Steven Curtiss and developed at GSFC
• Develop of autonomous navigation algorithm
• Demonstrated on ST8 (Space Technology -8 New
  Millennium program) dependable processor

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2008 Internships

• GSFC
• Laboratory for Planetary Magnetospheres
• Mentor Dr. Steven A Curtiss
• Project Adaptive Decentralized Control of
  Tetrahedral Robotics
• ANTS
• Reconfigurable tetrahedral robot architecture
• Implementation of decentralized adaptive control
  algorithms on a tetrahedral robot

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2008 Internships

• GSFC
• Laboratory for Planetary Magnetospheres
• Mentor Dr. Steven A Curtiss
• Project Physically based modeling of Tetrahedral
  Robotics
• ANTS
• Reconfigurable tetrahedral robot architecture
• Efficiently computable physically based models of
  tetrahedral robots

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2008 Internships

• Structronix LLC
• Aerospace research and development small
  business-Marietta
• Two interns for the Fall, Spring and Summer
  semesters
• Mentor Dr. D. Stefan Dancila, Chief Scientist
• Project Low Cost Access to Near Space (LCANS)
• using high altitude balloons and/or airships

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2008 Internships

• LCANS
• Low cost observation platforms
• Altitudes in excess of 100,000 ft
• Durations extending beyond 100 days
• In contrast to orbit based observation platforms,
  high altitude balloon and/or airship platforms
  offer the advantage of shorter mission lead times
• Flexibility to design and launch an observation
  platform and payload in response to an
  astronomical event of interest

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2008 Internships

• SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI)
• Aerospace concept design and development small
  business- Atlanta
• Focus on next-generation space systems
• Two interns for the Fall, Spring and Summer
  semesters
• Mentor Dr. John Olds, Principal Engineer
• Project Conceptual and preliminary level
  modeling
• Space transportation and infrastructure concepts

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Spring 2008 Project

• 50 seniors registered for Space systems courses
• Four design projects options planned
• Exploration Systems Architectural Study Mission
  Design
• Lunar extensibility to Mars
• Mars Pinpoint Landing Techniques
• Including Optical Navigation
• Interstellar probe (robotic mission to explore a
  distant solar system)
• Telescope to identify and infer habitability of
  Earth-size planets about distant stars