All activities at New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum unless otherwise stated.
Tuesday, October 10
FAA COE-CST Technical Meeting
Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
1st Annual ISPCS Golf Event (more info)
Sonoma Ranch Golf Course
Sponsored by: Lockheed Martin and Special Aerospace Services
Community Partnership Luncheon (separate registration required)
ISPCS Speaker & Sponsor Reception (by invitation only)
Sponsored by: Arrowhead Center
Opening Reception
Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by: AIAA
Wednesday, October 11
Morning Run
Departing Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by: Hilton Garden Inn and Heritage Hotels
Breakfast
Sponsored by: Dickerson’s Catering
Introduction
Opening Entertainment
Opening Remarks: Pat Hynes, ISPCS Curator
Master Moderator: Wayne Hale, Director of Human Spaceflight and Energy Services, Special Aerospace Services
Sponsored by: Lockheed Martin
Background Documents:
Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
Start-Up Space Update on Investment in Commercial Space Ventures 2017
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
HD YouTube Video
HD YouTube Opening Entertainment
Keynote Address: Human Spaceflight – The Ultimate Team Activity
William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, NASA Headquarters
What it takes to realize the dream of a true space market and how everyone has a unique role.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Turning Vision into Action: All Systems Go!
Thomas F. Siems, Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Space…the final frontier. To get there, is it really all about the Benjamins? Great ideas are at the heart of economic growth. But to drive an economy forward, great ideas need more than financial support. Great ideas need legal protections and the rule of law, and a clearly-articulated, inspiring and challenging purpose that generates market acceptance. Thomas Siems explains the important factors that drive economic growth in our economy, identifies some reasons why growth seems to be slower today, and presents a model to make the case that now is the time and this is the place to put the vision of personal and commercial spaceflight into action.
Background Documents:
TEDxSMU Talk on “The Wealth of Innovations”
Splat! Bam! It’s the Federal Reserve to the Rescue!
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Morning Break
Sponsored by: New Mexico Pecan Company
Keynote Address: NASA and the Aerospace Industry – An Investment Banker’s Perspective
Greg Kennedy, Founder and Managing Partner, Advection Growth Capital LLC
When I learned NASA’s Beachhead Team needed someone with a background in business and finance, I volunteered for that role. 60 days as the Senior Financial Advisor to NASA didn’t make me an expert on the agency or the aerospace industry. However, a well honed talent for observation and an effort to identify and to enable the agency staff’s own ideas for optimizing NASA’s mission, gave me a strong sense of key themes and action items to free NASA and the aerospace industry to achieve more together. NASA’s people are intellectually and passionately focused on its purpose. Private capital is committed to create a larger and increasingly vibrant space economy. A number of policy initiatives, including managing agency funding, real estate optimization, procurement streamlining, and innovation in public/private partnerships would advance NASA’s mission and assist the aerospace industry, including by facilitating access to capital for private companies. There are many barriers to sensible reform, but consensus around a few key initiatives is the way to a meaningful improvement in leadership, accomplishment and investor returns.
Sponsored by: CEAVCO
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Technology’s Role in Expanding the New Low Earth Orbit Economy
Stephen Jurczyk, Associate Administrator for Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA
American entrepreneurs are creating new systems for space travel that reduce cost. They are jump-starting a whole new economy in Low-Earth orbit based on NASA’s past investments and discoveries. Space comprises a rapidly growing information economy, with communications, remote sensing, and GPS satellites generating $300B in revenue a year, and growing 4 to 10 times the pace of America’s GDP. Soon, space will comprise a tourist economy and eventually a mining and manufacturing economy. Mr. Jurczyk will outline how the NASA space technology investments of today will impact the future of the space exploration and the space economy of tomorrow.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Exploration Missions and Radiation – How We Tackle the Problem with the MARE Experiment on ORION EM-1 Mission
Thomas Berger, Head Biophysics Group, Radiation Biology, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Aerospace Medicine
The space radiation environment and related higher radiation exposure to humans in space has been recognized as one of the main health detriments for long duration human space missions. The upcoming ORION missions to the Moon and plans for a journey to MARS, require ways to measure and/or simulate the radiation exposure on a crew. These measurements will be the prerequisite for mission planning and relevant risk assessment. For the upcoming ORION EM-1 mission, the MARE [Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment], is a joint effort of LHM, NASA, ISA, DLR and StemRad. The experiment consists of two female phantom torsos and the AstroRad vest. The AstroRad vest is a radiation shielding Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for Astronauts developed and manufactured by StemRad Ltd. The talk will highlight the idea behind the project and open questions still to be resolved for exploration missions.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Lunch
Sponsored by: Space Foundation
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (to be viewed in symposium room)
Sponsored by: NASA White Sands Test Facility and JACOBS
Spotlight Address: Blue Origin and Operational Reusability
Ariane Cornell, Head of Astronaut Strategy & Sales and Head of North American New Glenn Sales, Blue Origin
Reusability and more importantly, operational reusability, is designed into each of our systems and subsystems to ensure longevity, efficiencies, and robustness. Operational reusability is key to improving access to space.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Invest to Sustain – A Global Venture Enabling Mankind’s Journey to Mars
Paul Anderson, Orion Exploration Mission (EM-2) Director, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Ever since the Apollo moon landing in 1969, human explorers have posed the question, what next? With today’s technology, the vision of interplanetary human exploration has become a reality with the development of the Orion deep space exploration vehicle, SLS, GSDO, and commercial & international service providers. Orion is currently demonstrating revolutionary technologies onboard the EM-1 and EM-2 missions, which are critical to paving the way to the red planet. Getting humankind to Mars also requires continued and sustained government and private investments, as well as near-flawless program execution across the supply chain. Developing and investing in sustainable and affordable interplanetary transportation – and the new technologies and infrastructure to support it – are required from all of us in order to enable this vision. The future interplanetary space economy, while not yet defined, provides the economic promise to achieve our goal of becoming interplanetary species.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Panel Discussion: The Living and Working Environments of Commercial Space Systems
Chair: Bill Bastedo, Director, Business Development and Strategy, Civil Space and Sea Systems, UTC Aerospace Systems
Panelists:
Michael Baine, Chief Engineer, Axiom Space LLC
John Elbon, Vice President and General Manager, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
Robert Richter, Director of Human Support and Instrumentation, ORBITEC Business Unit/Space Systems Group, Sierra Nevada Corporation
Darren Samplatsky, Exploration Systems Program Manager, Civil Space and Sea Systems, UTC Aerospace Systems
Adding humans to commercial missions creates challenges. Our panelist will discuss their paths to solutions as they design and built systems that safely and comfortably support humans in space. What are the most important requirements for life support and crew systems for commercial operators?
Sponsored by: UTC Aerospace Systems
View presentation slides:
Michael Baine PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
John Elbon PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
John Elbon PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Robert Richter PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Robert Richter PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Darren Samplatsky PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Social Q&A
HD Youtube Video
Afternoon Break
Sponsored by: Truck Farm
Panel Discussion: Virtuous Cycle: The Ecosystem from Earth to Space and Back
Chair: Ian Christensen, Project Manager, Secure World Foundation
Panelists:
Richard Pruss, Vice President and Director of Aerospace and Government Programs, BRPH Architects-Engineers, Inc.
Embedded in the mission of each of the companies on the panel is a commitment to improving life on Earth. Whether building sustainable manufacturing facilities for space vehicles on Earth or using space based applications to address pressing challenges and sustainability on this planet, improving life on Earth is a commonly held value. The companies connect their mission to their investors, customers, partners, and employees.
Sponsored by: Secure World Foundation
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: An Extreme Application of Vernacular Architecture: It Could be on Mars
Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner and Creative Director, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
When we invent technology through architecture we become better at adapting our surroundings to us. In our quest for human space exploration, the creation of habitats that enable human survival could involve the utilization of materials already available in places we explore including the Moon and Mars. This could be an extreme application of vernacular architecture. Let us explore the idea of having a practical extraplanetary habitat. We are collaborators, it will take all of our efforts to achieve permanent human presence beyond Earth.
Sponsored by: Fisher Space Pen
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Article: Two Twisting Towers Come to the Far West Side
Industry Reception
Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by: Commercial Space Progress Foundation
Dinner
Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by: JACOBS
After Hours Reception
Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau
Thursday, October 12
Morning Run
Departing Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces
Sponsored by: Hilton Garden Inn and Heritage Hotels
Breakfast
Sponsored by: Milagro Coffee y Expresso
Opening
ISPCS Curator: Pat Hynes
City of Las Cruces Mayor: Mayor Miyagishima
Master Moderator: Ariane Cornell, Head of Astronaut Strategy & Sales and Head of North American New Glenn Sales, Blue Origin
Keynote Address: The Long Term Vision for Spaceport America as a Unique Inland Transportation Center
Dan Hicks, Chief Executive Officer, Spaceport America
Mr. Hicks will discuss current capabilities, customers and vision to becoming a Global Port for access to space. This vision will focus on servicing the suborbital, orbital, cis-lunar, and deep space travel environments. As with any Global Port, how do we start planning for the required infrastructure (highway, rail cargo shipping and receiving, etc.) and partnerships to enable all logistic servicing of the commercial space industry for our future space travel requirements.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Our Purpose – A Spaceline for Earth
Mike Moses, President, Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is committed to not just building and flying a single spaceship, we are building a fleet of ships to carry people and payloads to suborbital space. This Spaceline will provide life-changing experiences for our customers and give us the momentum to evolve personal spaceflight in the future. We will look into the purpose of that Spaceline – as well as the progress of the current flight test program and our progress on building the next vehicles that will make up the heart of the Virgin Galactic Spaceline.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Break
Sponsored by: Orbital ATK
Keynote Address: Commercial Space: Challenges, Opportunities and Collaborations in the 21st Century
George Nield, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, FAA
Special Guest: Tommy Sanford, Executive Director, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
The recent reestablishment of the National Space Council provides an opportunity for us to assess our nation’s space program from a “whole of government” perspective; to enable increased collaboration between the civil, national security, and commercial space sectors; and to take full advantage of international partnerships. A number of ideas for increasingly ambitious undertakings are identified, along with specific actions that the government can take to maximize our probability of success. Success is now also dependent on effective working relationships with our commercial space industry partners.
Sponsored by: Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Keynote Address: The Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works: A Hands-on, Lean Development Environment for Innovation at NASA
Jeffrey Smith, Chief, Science and Technology Projects Division, NASA KSC
Kennedy Space Center’s Swamp Works is a unique innovation environment at NASA, following the philosophies originally pioneered in Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works and Werner von Braun’s development shops. Swamp Works establishes rapid, innovative, and cost-effective exploration mission solutions through a highly-collaborative, “no walls,” approach, leveraging partnerships across NASA, industry, and academia. Find out how we do it, and how you can do it too, to break down traditional walls and allow innovation to advance your mission.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Spotlight Address: Additive Manufacturing in the Rocket Industry – A Component Suppliers Perspective
Derek Guyton, Sales Engineer, Barber-Nichols, Inc.
Commoditization of shipping to LEO is driving investments in manufacturing research. The machine that makes the machine is now a focus for developing competency in lowering the barriers to entry.
Sponsored by: Barber-Nichols, Inc
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Mind the Gap – How a Non-Prime Heritage Launch Vehicle and In-Space Hardware Company has Become a Commercial Space Player
Scott Steffan, Deputy Director, Space Access & Integrated Systems, Moog Inc., Space and Defense Group
Since the early 1950s, Moog has been a leading hardware manufacturer in motion and fluid control, propulsion, avionics, structures systems and components. The number of commercial space focused start-ups has accelerated in the last ten years. We have found ourselves caught in ‘the middle’. New primes have chosen to vertically integrate and not reach out to industry leaders at the sub-vehicle levels. New market pricing from these upstarts has put pressure on the heritage primes who are either integrating or pushing these price pressures onto the existing value chain. We will provide an overview of why the business case to being a sub-tier, non-commoditized hardware provider is a challenge, why Moog is committed to Commercial Space, and what we are doing about this dilemma in order to grow and enable industry growth.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Lunch
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (to be viewed in the symposium room)
Sponsored by: NASA White Sands Test Facility and JACOBS
Spotlight: Space Frontier Foundation: The Emergence of a True NewSpace Industry
Jeff Feige, Chairman of the Board, Space Frontier Foundation
The Space Frontier Foundation has advocated for the human development of space since its inception. A necessary prerequisite to this vision is a robust private space industry which relies on serving world markets in addition to meeting government needs. As this industry is now rapidly developing, the Space Frontier Foundation is changing rapidly to meet these new needs as they emerge.
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
HD YouTube Video
Keynote Address: Freeing the Logjam: How DARPA and Other Federal Agencies Can Partner with Commercial Spaceflight Providers and Open the Roads to and from Space
Fred G. Kennedy, Director, Tactical Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The long-awaited space renaissance is here, now. No longer is the exploration of the space frontier the sole province of governments and big business. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest and venture capital investment in a “New Space” commercial vendor base that is creating huge opportunities for innovation—capabilities that the United States needs to leverage to maintain its competitive edge in a rapidly growing international arena. The catch? Identifying the right opportunities, at the right time, for public, private, and/or public-private investment and partnerships that benefit the entire space ecosystem.
Dr. Kennedy will explore and motivate this public-private investment trade space by discussing:
• Current DARPA efforts to encourage commercial transitions, including the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) and Experimental Spaceplane programs
• Emerging opportunities to leverage the nascent “space internet,” enabled by never-before-seen satellite and payload production volumes, ultra-resilient “megaconstellations” with high-bandwidth intersatellite and space-to-ground communications links
• Greatly enhanced mission capabilities enabled by hyperaccurate timing, including interferometric techniques
• How the U.S. Government (and DARPA in particular) can foster the development of just-in-time, small launch services to remove the bottleneck to innovation and finally bring Moore’s Law to space
Background Documents:
Airpower Journal
Space and risk analysis paralysis
PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Panel Discussion: Commercial Crew: On Course to Purposeful Flight
Chair: Kathryn Lueders, Program Manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA
Panelists:
John Mulholland, Vice President and Program Manager for Commercial Programs, Space Exploration, The Boeing Company
Benjamin Reed, Director of Commercial Crew Mission Management, SpaceX
Two American companies are on course, following their own unique paths to produce certified end-to-end crew transportation systems capable of flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Launch pads along Florida’s Space Coast have taken shape, spacecraft and launch vehicle hardware are being built and extensive qualification testing is under way for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon systems. The companies are working diligently and purposefully with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and the astronauts selected to train to fly flight tests to the International Space Station to ensure the systems are meeting the agency’s certification requirements and adequately addressing all credible hazards, including pad emergencies, in-flight aborts and emergency landings.
View presentation slides:
Kathy Lueders PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Kathy Lueders PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
John Mulholland PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
John Mulholland PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Benjamin Reed PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Benjamin Reed PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Sponsored by: The Boeing Company
Break
Sponsored by: United Launch Alliance
Panel Discussion: Leveraging CRS to Expand LEO Commercialization
Chair: Ven C. Feng, Manager of the International Space Station (ISS) Transportation Integration Office, NASA JSC
Panelists:
Benjamin Reed, Director of Commercial Crew Mission Management, SpaceX
Frank DeMauro, Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Programs Division, Space Systems Group, Orbital ATK
Mark Sirangelo, Corporate Vice President, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems
In 2012, 461kg of cargo was delivered to the ISS by one commercial vendor. In 2016, Leveraging CRS to Expand LEO Commercialization the number was 11,387kg by both Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 1 providers, Orbital ATK and SpaceX. In 2017, they are expected to launch over 17,000kg to the ISS. With the extension of ISS to at least 2024 and award of the CRS2 contracts, Orbital ATK, SpaceX, and now Sierra Nevada will expand and solidify the LEO commercial transportation market. Simultaneously a broad spectrum of government, academic and commercial research activities aboard the ISS will be enabled. The ISPCS Commercial Cargo Panel will provide key insights into the future plans and capabilities of the CRS2 providers.
View presentation slides:
Frank DeMauro PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Frank DeMauro PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Benjamin Reed PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Benjamin Reed PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Mark Sirangelo PowerPoint Presentation (YouTube)
Mark Sirangelo PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser Free Flight Test November 2017
Social Q&A
HD YouTube Video
Closing
Pat Hynes, ISPCS Curator
Happy Trails Reception
