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GSPC Technical Affairs Sub Committee

The GSPC Technical Affairs Subcommittee, led by Eric Flint from Mevicon Inc., plays a crucial role in supporting technical excellence in Gossamer spacecraft development. Our responsibilities include advocating for technical standards, facilitating historical research, and promoting scholarly activity in aerospace journals. We coordinate knowledge-sharing efforts, such as historical advocacy sessions at the SDM Conference, and engage with AIAA to ensure the dissemination of critical aerospace information. Our team consists of leading experts from various organizations committed to advancing Gossamer technologies and systems.

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GSPC Technical Affairs Sub Committee

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  1. Chair Eric M. Flint, President Mevicon Inc. 2534 W. Middlefield Rd Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 969-2675 www.mevicon.com Eric.flint@mevicon.com GSPCTechnical Affairs Sub Committee

  2. Responsibilities/ScopeGSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee • Core • Support AIAA Journals. • Provide focal point for technical expertise in each main discipline of Gossamer spacecraft. • Historical Advocacy • Organize a session every few years at the SDM to provide a forum for the presentation of Gossamer spacecraft related historical materials. Coordinate with the GSF Technical and Program Chairs. • Facilitate public access to technical information on historically significant Gossamer spacecraft systems. • Encourage the use of history as a teacher for future Gossamer spacecraft systems. • Standards Advocacy • Provide continuing liaison with AIAA standards activities committee and other technical society groups. • Organize and implement methods of standardization. Above per Interpretation of GSPC Charter

  3. Current Roster (as of 10/03)GSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee • Brett DeBlonk (AFRL) • Houfei Fang (JPL) • Eric Flint (Mevicon Inc.) Sub Committee Chair • Akilash Jha (Nextgen Aero) • Jim Moore (SRS) • Tom Murphey (AFRL) • Gunnar Tibert (University of Sweden) • Jason Tolomeo (Lockheed Martin) • Peter Warren (Foster Miller)

  4. Yearly ScheduleGSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee

  5. AI’s: Technical LiteratureGSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee • Journals (Activity #1) • Establish working sub-group or find volunteer to encourage conference authors to submit to journals • Perhaps drawn from Best Paper Competition? • Generate List of Volunteer Reviewers to Forward to relevant AIAA Journal Editor/Associate Editors • Aerospace America Article (Activity #2) • Interest in supporting Special Article/GSPC White Paper, ??? • Establish level of interest/relevancy • Establish working group or volunteer to spearhead effort • Establish effective “non-partisan” or “all-partisan” review procedure

  6. AI’s: Historical AdvocacyGSPC: Technical Affairs Subcommittee • Historical Focus Session(s) @ next SDM/GSF Activity (#3) • Generate Ideas • Echo I & II • Robert Forward Retrospective • Solar Sails • . . . • Identify lead session coordinators • Coordinate with 2005 Technical Chair (Prof. Suzanne Smith) • History Advocacy Projects Activity (#4) • Brainstorm on Possible Projects • Down Select • Identify this years effort, effort lead, POC, and/or working group • Implement • One Possible Idea: Generate Historical Reading List (For web site) • Gather references (eg.) • A History of Project Echo, Donald Elder, AAS History Series, Volume 16, 1995 • “The Coming Age of Solar Energy” D.S. Halacy Jr., Harper and Row, 1963, • . . . • Poll user community using GSPC Email list • Coordinate uploading of results with web site manager

  7. GSPCTechnical Affairs Subcommittee Action Items: Add definition to what one of our core responsibilities really means “Provide focal point for technical expertise in each main discipline of Gossamer spacecraft” We need to come to a common agreement on what these major disciplines are • Possibilities include • Technologies/Components Application Areas • Coatings - Support Structures • Materials - Sun Shields • Structures - Solar Sails • Packaging - Thin Film Solar Cell Arrays • Deployment - Concentrators • Rigidization Techniques - For Power Generation • Structural Dynamics - For SOTV • Attitude Control Aspects - Occulters • Active Control Aspects - Apertures • Inflation Systems - Communication • - SAR • - IR • . . . - Optical • How do we provide a focal point? • Generate a database of GSPC members (or friends?) who are active in the above areas • Other Ideas ?

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