AGENDA

as of 8.27.10

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

ISPCS Public Forum - Education Outreach, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

ISPCS Public Forum - NMSU Community, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

Spaceport Community Council, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

Spaceport Executive Summit - by invitation only

Space and Sand Tour, registration required

Speakers and Sponsors Reception - by invitation only

Registration and Opening Reception

Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces

sponsored by:  Spaceport Sweden

Wednesday, October 20, 2010
All events at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum unless state otherwise

Registration and Hot Breakfast

Pat Hynes - Welcome

 8:45am-9:30am

Keynote Address- Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer-Prize-winner and Author

Description:
From Thermonuclear Warheads to Astronauts: How pioneering Air Force General Bernard Schriever and his colleagues defied bureaucracy and entrenched opponents to build the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, thereby giving birth to an aerospace industry in America and fostering the penetration and exploration of Space.

sponsored by:  Air Force Research Lab

 9:30am–10:00am

Break

sponsored by:  CALCULEX

10:00am-11:0 am

Past is prologue: The future of the space industry from the perspective of the those who helped get it started

Chair:  Jeff Greason, President, XCOR Aerospace

Description:
Each of the panelists has their own story on how their organization contributed in the beginning of the space industry and what their role is now in the emerging commercial space industry.

In 1926, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics established eleven Guggenheim schools or research centers. The GALCIT lab, then named the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology was among those funded. In 1935, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fund funded Robert H. Goddard to work full time on rocketry.  Guggenheim’s funding and vision enabled Goddard’s patents to be developed into operational technologies, initially researched at the GALCIT lab, directed by Theodore von Karman, founder of Aerojet General. In 1953, Air Force officer Bernard Shriver met with John von Neumann at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study to discuss creating the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program.  Entrepreneurs and GALCIT graduates, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge were early partners in the ICBM program. These two men, founders of TRW, fostered the beginnings of the aerospace industry. They were hired by Air Force Brigadier General Bernard “Benny” Shriever to develop what became both the commercial and military space programs of today. By 1960, the synergy of private funding, university research and government support helped create the $261 billon global aerospace industry of today.

This panel will be chaired by Jeff Greason - an engineer, entrepreneur and leading member of the community building the commercial space industry.

sponsored by:  Jacobs Technology

11:00 am–12:00pm

Closing the credibility gap:  The role of suborbital testing as a pathfinder to orbital markets or as an end market to itself

Chair: Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC

Description:
Panelists will share their test plans and results in moving from a small-scale or component test environment to a full-scale commercial market (human or payload), what elements does the test program need to demonstrate to satisfy multiple constituents (customers, regulators, investors, general public, insurers, etc), what challenges must be overcome from traditional to entrepreneurial test philosophies, and how will the companies know they are “there” and have the credibility to successfully enter and operate in the desired market.

sponsored by:  Boeing

12:00pm-1:30pm

1:30pm-2:30pm

Establishing the commercial space market: Matching business strategy with funding sources

Chair: Lee Rand, Partner, Sun Mountain Capital

Description: 
Focus on component investments technologies and services. Each of the speakers owns or is a majority stake holder in their company. They have developed enabling technologies, and are interested in speaking on the idea that large, complete systems, are built through compiling components that create systems, and compiling systems create larger products and services. The test panel discussion that precedes this session helps explain where components fit into the larger picture of this new industry. The preceding session will also address how mature the test programs of the sub-system are, how they are progressing, and whether the sub-systems are ready for component investment.

2:30 pm-3:00pm

FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

Chair:  George Nield, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, FAA

3:00pm-3:30pm

Break – Book signing, Sheehan

sponsored by:  Milagro Coffee

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

The practical impact of ITAR and reform on commercial space transportation

Chair:  Bob Dickman, Major General, USAF (Retired), and Executive Director, AIAA

Description: 
This panel will also examine what reform means to our audience and provide a practical sense of what we can expect as more of us engage in working through the ITAR process. President Obama's intent to protect critical national security technologies while simultaneously increasing  export capability of "everything else".  The booming international "ITAR Free" space technologies business has been enabled by current ITAR regime.

sponsored by:  Gerald Martin Construction and Hot Springs Land Development

4:30 pm–5:30 pm

The path forward from DC-X/XA

Chair:   Bill Gaubatz

Description: 
The DC-X program was originally planned as a three-phase program with incremental steps to develop an operational, fully reusable space transportation system with single-stage-to-orbit as a goal.  The DC-X/XA steps provided demonstrations of the technologies associated with (1) achieving low cost, routine aircraft-like ground and flight operations, (2) achieving the flight characteristics of a totally reusable, autonomously controlled, liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propulsion, vertical takeoff and landing vehicle that can safely return in the event of an emergency and (3) showing that low-cost demonstrations can be carried out in a rapid prototyping environment to significantly reduce overall system development time and risk.  The DC-X/XA provided positive answers derived from operating real ground and flight systems and from flying a real demonstration vehicle, Unfortunately, the subsequent phases and incremental steps that would have flight demonstrated a sub-orbital, Mach 8 - 12 prototype leading to a full scale orbital operational prototype were not funded and the DC-X industry and government team was abandoned. 

Fortunately the DC-X concept of low cost, aircraft-like operations was not forgotten and has been vigorously pursued by the entrepreneurial new-space and aerospace companies in the US and abroad.  This session will provide a brief overview of the DC-X program and where it left-off and the on-going efforts and progress in the private and government sectors to reach the low-cost, safe, fully reusable space transportation system. 

sponsored by:  EADS Astrium

5:30pm -7:00 pm

Reception

Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces

sponsored by:  AIAA

7:00pm-8:30 pm

8:30pm -10:30pm

Reception

Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces

sponsored by:  City of Las Cruces

Thursday, October 21, 2010
All events at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum

Registration and Hot Breakfast

sponsored by: Space Foundation

8:30am-9:30 am

Keynote Address- Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator

Description: 
Planning for NASA’s programs in science, aeronautics, and human space flight, including the agency's latest plans for commercial access to space

sponsored by:  New Mexico Spaceport Authority

9:30am–10:00 am

Break

10:00am -11:00 am

The Microgravity Market

Chair:    Dennis Stone  Assistant Manager, Program Integration, Commercial Crew & Cargo Program, NASA Johnson Space Center

Description: Microgravity opens a new window on biological and physical processes. Now there are new capabilities to provide microgravity, including parabolic flights, suborbital missions, commercial free-fliers, and ISS. This session will highlight the benefits of "removing gravity," new capabilities to do so, and potential markets in biotech, nanotech, and other industries.

sponsored by:  CSSI

11:00am–12:00 pm

Space policy

Chair: Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

Description:

12:00pm–1:30 pm

Lunch

sponsored by:  Sierra Nevada

1:30pm -2:30 pm

Why does increased access to space matter?

Description:
This panel will examine how suborbital flights for humans including the potential for Virgin Galactic to increase interest and access to space is important for many different communities.  The communities involved in the commercial space industry includes researchers, tourists, vehicle manufacturers, spaceport developers as well as regulators and innovators. What does increased access to space mean for mankind?

2:30pm-3:30 pm

Creating the demand: Free and low cost flight opportunities for education and research in space

Description:     
The session will examine flight opportunities available for student experiments.  Panel members will include representatives from organizations that provide free or reduced cost access to space, both suborbital and orbital. We are comparing and contrasting the market that exists for flight-ready experiments vs the non-existent yet potential market for experiments that will emerge from educational programs developed to take advantage of flight opportunities. 

sponsored by:  El Paso Electric

3:30pm-4:00pm

Break

4:00pm–5:00pm

Spaceports

Description:
Interoperability- air and space mgt systems, 50,000 ft to 320 miles, Air and Space mgt systems, processes and procedures, standards.

Friday, October 22

Spaceport America Runway Dedication, registration required