Solid Rocket Technical Sessions

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Solid RocketTechnical Sessions

• Fred S. Blomshield (Solid Rocket Propulsion
  Organizer)
• Mike Popp (Overall Technical Chair)
• 40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Meeting
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• 11-14 July 2004

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Statistics

• 49 Papers in 8 Sessions
• Solid Rocket Technologies (5 papers)
• Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Propulsion Special
  Session (6 papers, presentations only, Joint with
  ASME)
• Motor Combustion Instability and Ignition (6
  papers)
• VEGA SRM Technologies (9 Papers)
• Segmented Large Booster Special Session (8
  papers)
• Modeling Rocket Motor Combustion Instability I (6
  papers)
• Solid Rocket Investigations (5 papers)
• Modeling Rocket Motor Combustion Instability II
  (4 papers)
• Believe it or not, only 2 papers withdrawn after
  their abstracts were sent in but before program
  went out

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More Statistics

• U.S. Paper Origins
• University 9
• Big Industry 6
• Government 5
• Small Industry 2
• Paper Submissions, as of 1500, 12 July 04
• Papers at Meeting 28
• No Papers Yet 15
• Presentations Only 6
• No Paper Notes
• 7 are from the VEGA session
• Most others are none U.S.
• Others will be coming
• None withdrawn, to the best of my knowledge

• Paper Origins
• U.S. 22
• Italy 8
• French 7 (1 co-au)
• Canada 3
• Japan 3 (1 co-au)
• South Korea 2
• Germany 1
• India 1
• Iran 1
• Netherlands 1
• United Kingdom (1 co-au)

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Other Comments

• AIAA Tech folks were very helpful
• Overall, I thought the online paper submittal
  system worked fine
• I thought the online paper acceptance, session
  organization and program adjustments worked well
• Mike Popp did an excellent job
• Need to define what makes a special session
• Invited only papers
• Joint session, i.e. with ASME
• Narrowly defined subject matter
• Subject overview, i.e. management overviews of a
  topic
• I dont think you should limit session chairs to
  SRTC members
• I tried, but had volunteers from outside who
  needed an excuse to come