AGENDA

as of 10.15.10

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

ISPCS Public Forum - Education Outreach, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

Sponsored by: NASA, Las Cruces Sun News, and Coas Books Inc

ISPCS Public Forum - NMSU Community, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

Sponsored by: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium and Las Cruces Bulletin

Spaceport Community Council, open to the public

Pan American Center, New Mexico State University

Sponsored by: Steinborn TCN Commercial Real Estate, Bohannan Huston Inc, and Village of Hatch

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 and Finnair

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 (AFRL)

 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, CEO, XCOR Aerospace

Speakers:
• Guruswami Ravichandran, Director of Graduate Aeronautics Lab, California Institute of Technology
• Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Author
• Bill Campbell, Retired Chief Engineer, Aerojet
• Rick Sturdevant, Deputy Director of History, U.S. Air Force Space Command
• Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

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:  International Institute of Space Commerce

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 in itself

Chair: Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC

Speakers:
• Jeff Greason, CEO, XCOR Aerospace
• Julia Tizard, Operations Manager, Virgin Galactic
• Neil Milburn, VP of Program Management, Armadillo Aerospace

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:  The Boeing Company

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

Speakers:
• Grant Anderson, P.E., VP of Engineering, Co-founder, Paragon Space Development Corporation
• Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
• Tim Pickens, Commercial Space Advisor / Chief Propulsion Engineer, Dynetics
• Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC

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.

Sponsored by:  El Paso Electric and Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA)

2:30 pm-3:00pm

FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

Chair:  Ken Davidian, FAA

Speakers:
• Pat Hynes, Executive Director, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation
• Sam Durrance, Professor, Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
• Van Romero, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Jim Vanderploeg, Associate Professor of Aerospace Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
• Farrukh Alvi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
• Barbara Couture, President, New Mexico State University
• Jay Kapat, Professor, FCAAP, Univeristy of Central Florida
• Larry Ukeiley, Professor, FCAAP - Univeristy of Florida

Description:  Ken Davidian will introduce the leadership team for the Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces will lead a team of colleges and universities throughout the country. These include: Stanford University in California, the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, NM, the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) at Florida State University in Tallahassee, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

The center is a partnership of academia, industry, and government, developed for the purpose of creating a world-class consortium that will address current and future challenges for commercial space transportation.

Sponsored by: New Mexico State University

3:00pm-3:30pm

Break – Book signing- Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer-Prize-winner and Author

Sponsored by:  Milagro Coffee

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

The practical impact of ITAR and reform on commercial space

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

Speakers:
• Debra Facktor Lepore, President, DFL Space LLC
• Sven Grahn, Senior Advisor, Swedish Space Corporation and Senior Consultant for Spaceport Sweden
• Franceska Schroeder, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C., Washington, DC
• Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

Description: 
Many people feel that limits on technology exports set by ITAR regulations have slowed development of commercial space in the United States. Members of this panel will examine how the booming international "ITAR Free" space business has been enabled by the current IRAR regime, what reforms are necessary in the ITAR process to enhance the growth of the U.S. industry.

Sponsored by:  Hot Springs Land Development

4:30 pm–5:30 pm

The path forward from DC-X/XA

Speakers:

• Nino Polizzi, Vice President, Customer Integration Universal Space Network
• David Masten, President and CEO, Masten Space Systems
• Yoshifumi Inatani, JAXA to Yoshifumi Inatani, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Neil Milburn, VP Program Management, Armadillo Aerospace, LLC
• James Ball, Senior Manager, Flight Engineering, The Boeing Company
• Fredrick Bachtel, Director Strategic Planning & Initiatives, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

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

6:00pm -7:30 pm

Reception

Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces

Sponsored by:  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

7:30pm-8:30 pm

9:00pm -10:30pm

After Hours 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

Speakers:

• Cheryl Nickerson, Associate Professor, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
• Andrew Nelson, Chief Operating Officer, XCOR Aerospace, Inc

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 Inc.

11:00am–12:00 pm

Crew transportation systems: The game changer in human spaceflight

Chair: Brett Alexander President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

Speakers:

• Keith Reiley, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Development, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
• Kenneth Reightler, Vice President, NASA Program Integration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
• Robert Bigelow, Owner and Founder, Bigelow Aerospace, LLC
• Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Sierra Nevada Space Systems and Chairman, Commercial Space Federation
• Ken Bowersox, Vice President of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance, SpaceX

Description: A discussion of commercial spacecraft designs for transport of people to and from low Earth orbit for NASA, industry, and space tourism.

12:00pm–1:30 pm

Lunch

sponsored by:  Sierra Nevada Corporation

1:30pm -2:30 pm

Space policy evolution: Changes portend larger commercial markets to service government needs and greater international cooperation

Chair: Clay Mowry, President, Arianespace, Inc

Speakers:
• Brendan Curry - Vice President, Space Foundation
• Steve Traver,
• Philip McAlister, Commercial Crew Development Program within the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA HQ

Description:  On June 28, 2010 a new National Space Policy was released which encouraged the greater use of commercial space services and called for increased international cooperation in space. Panelists will discuss the new policy as well as the direction Federal agencies are headed in utilizing commercial spaceflight for a broad range of services.

Sponsored by: Bigelow Aerospace, LLC

2:30pm-3:30 pm

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

Chair: Charles Chafer, CEO, Space Services, Inc.

Speakers:
• David Masten - President/CEO, Masten Space Systems
• Doug Comstock, Director of the Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA
• George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic
• Brienna Henwood, Director of Space Training and Research, NASTAR
• Mark Severance, International Space Station National Lab Education Project Manager
• Jerry Larson, Founder, President and CEO of UP Aerospace, Inc

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. This session will also discuss the downside to the market of offering free flights. 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

Chair: Patti Grace Smith, Aerospace Consultant, Virgin Galactic


Speakers:
• Karin Nilsdotter, Director, Spaceport Sweden
• Rick Homans, Executive Director, New Mexico Spaceport Authority
• Stu Witt, General Manager, Mojave Air and Space Port
• Gloria Garcia-Cuadrado, Director, Barcelona Aeronautics & Space Association (BAIE)

Description:  Panelist will discuss critical milestones from initial planning, through to construction to profitable operations. Each will address the gaps they encountered in supply chain, workforce development, community support and public engagement.

Sponsored by: Jacobs Technology

Closing

Pat Hynes - ISPCS Chair

Friday, October 22

Spaceport America Runway Dedication, registration required