Report to the SpaceOps Executive Committee and CommitteeatLarge

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Report to the SpaceOps Executive Committee and
Committee-at-Large 24 January 2008
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Update on Activities

• Promotion and Outreach
• Sent out 5/07, 8/07,11/07 Updates
• Preparing 2/08 Update
• SpaceOps 2008
• Communicator
• SpaceOps Book
• Other activities of interest?
• Periodic web site updates in 2007
• Investigated possibility of doing a blog with
  Communications and Outreach Group (COG)

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Update on Activities

• SpaceOps Conference Support
• AIAA staff resources continuing to support
  SpaceOps 2008
• Working with NASA MSFC to start planning for
  SpaceOps 2010
• Site visit to Huntsville in 11/07
• Finalizing Space Act Agreement to define roles
  and responsibilities
• AIAA staff resources assigned to support
  conference

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Update on Activities

• Other
• Worked with NASA GSFC to organize 1/08 ExCom and
  CAL meeting
• Supporting Awards Group with 2008 award
  nominations
• Working with AIAA Publications about offering
  discount on SpaceOps book purchase to SpaceOps
  2008 attendees

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Statistics about SpaceOps Book

• Title Space Operations Mission Management,
  Technologies, and Current Applications
• Series Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics
• Publication date 9/7/07
• Units sold to date 871Revenue to date
  9,694.04
• Individuals 13 of sales
• Non-Individuals  87 of sales
• Royalty 10 of net revenue (after discounts,
  returns, etc.) to be paid to SpaceOps in
  Feb/March 2008

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SpaceOps Web Site

• Feedback from COG
• Make home page more descriptive and welcoming
• Add information about SpaceOps Organization
• Add member agency logos
• Lighten design of web site

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SpaceOps Web Site
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Concept for SpaceOps Papers

• Task
• Post papers on SpaceOps web site three months
  after the conference for free download
• Proposed Approach
• Start with 2008 papers
• Include search interface or simply have list of
  links to files?
• COG suggests linking to abstract and presentation
  files and including conference information
• Financial Considerations
• Work to be covered by SpaceOps Secretariat funds

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Concept for SpaceOps Papers

• Task
• Develop consolidated archive of past year
  SpaceOps papers
• Proposed Approach
• Collect papers from all conferences in digital
  format and create index file
• Papers submitted through CAS 2006
• Papers collected in digital format 1996, 1998,
  2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
• Papers to be scanned 1992, 1994
• Index data compiled 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004
• Index data to be complied 1992, 1994
• Design entry screen and search interface
• Financial Considerations
• Work to be covered by SpaceOps Secretariat funds

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Concept for SpaceOps Papers

• Other Possible Tasks
• Sell individual papers from future conferences to
  non-SpaceOps community through AIAA
• Sell online proceedings to institutional
  subscribers (non-SpaceOps members) through AIAA
• Proposed Approach
• Following SpaceOps conferences, include papers in
  AIAA Library for other transactional (individual)
  and proceedings (institutional) sales
• Individual paper sales use AIAA prices
• Proceedings sales prices to be determined by
  conference based on number of papers
• Financial Considerations
• Portion of revenues from online proceedings sales
  to go to SpaceOps Secretariat as royalty

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Secretariat Roles

• Current tasks
• Coordinate CAL/ExCom meetings and provide
  administrative support to CAL and ExCom
• Maintain CAL/ExCom roster
• Maintain SpaceOps database
• Perform promotional outreach (i.e., SpaceOps
  Update)
• Maintain web site
• Interface with AIAA to implement other related
  activities (i.e., publish SpaceOps book,
  administer awards program)
• Manage SpaceOps Secretariat budget

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Secretariat Roles

• Other desired roles?
• Provide continuity between SpaceOps conferences
• Maintain conference planning manual
• Collect conference statistics and information
• Collect materials for inclusion on SpaceOps web
  site

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Upcoming Tasks

• Redesign SpaceOps web site (based on feedback)
• Implement concept for SpaceOps papers (based on
  feedback)
• Develop online nomination system for SpaceOps
  awards (to be discussed with Awards Group for
  future implementation)
• Develop marketing plan and materials to promote
  SpaceOps Organization (to be discussed with
  Communication and Outreach Group for future
  implementation)