CODER ORBITAL DEBRIS WORKSHOP. November 18-20, 2014 College Park, MD

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1 2014 CODER ORBITAL DEBRIS WORKSHOP November 18-20, 2014 College Park, MD Collaboration, research and education to address critical issues in orbital debris policy, mitigation and remediation.

2 WELCOME Welcome to the inaugural Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research 2014 Workshop to address critical issues in orbital debris policy, mitigation, and remediation. We hope this workshop will connect individuals and research from across academe, industry, and government to foster collaboration and promote the long-term goal of developing policies, laws, and systems that will lead to the effective remediation and control of orbital debris. Our goal is to promote an open exchange among the science, technology, economic, policy, and law communities, raise awareness, and inform decision makers on state of the art technologies that are currently available to address this growing issue. WORKSHOP 2014 College Park, Maryland November

3 PROGRAM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, :00 p.m. Registration & Check In 12:45 p.m. Welcome & Announcements 1:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Break 3:45p.m. 5:30 p.m. Adjourn Keynote Historical Aspects of Debris Creation Keynote The role of the FAA in Orbital Debris Mitigation and Collision Avoidance Panel 1 Policy and Security Issues Panel 2 Technology Issues 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Opening Reception Raymond Sedwick Don Kessler Retired NASA Michael Romanowski Director, Commercial Space Integration, Federal Aviation Administration Moderator: Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation Moderator: Marshall Kaplan WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014 MORNING SESSION 7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Registration & Check In 7:55 a.m. Welcome & Announcements 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Keynote Treaty and Legal Issues Panel 3 Debris Threats to Spaceflight and National Security Panel 4 Debris Field Modeling and Simulation Raymond Sedwick James Dunstan Mobius Legal Group Moderator: Greg Orndorff Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. Moderator: Lauri Newman NASA Lunch with Speaker: Perspectives on News Coverage of Orbital Debris Over the Decades Leonard David, Lifelong Space Journalist 2 CENTER for ORBITAL DEBRIS EDUCATION & RESEARCH

4 PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014 AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Break 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Adjourn 6:00 p.m. Reception 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Keynote Special Issues at Geostationary Altitude Panel 5 Current Practices and Active Research Panel 6 Remediation Architectures and Technologies Bryan Benedict Intelsat General Moderator: Roger Thompson The Aerospace Corporation Moderator: Gordon Roesler DARPA Dinner with Speaker: Chicken Little was Right: Space Debris, Asteroid Impacts, and Popular Culture Roger Launius, Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs, National Air and Space Museum THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, :00 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Registration & Check In 7:55 a.m. Welcome 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. Keynote Space Policies and Priorities Panel 7 Entrepreneurial Opportunities Panel 8 Orbital Debris Research Priorities 12:00 p.m. Closing Remarks Raymond Sedwick Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation Moderator: Charles Miller NexGen Space LLC Moderator: Raymond Sedwick Marshall Kaplan Stay connected throughout the workshop by or using hashtag #coder14 WORKSHOP 2014 College Park, Maryland November

5 KEYNOTES DONALD KESSLER Retired, NASA, Orbital Debris Consultant Donald J. (Don) Kessler retired from NASA in 1996 as NASA s first Senior Scientist for Orbital Debris Research. He has published more than 100 technical papers on meteoroids and orbital debris, has been a contributing author or editor of major reports and publications, and has received numerous awards for his pioneering work. Since retiring, he has continued to consult with NASA and other agencies. His most recent activities include chairing the National Research Council s assessment of the NASA orbital debris programs and supporting the assessment of orbital debris environment models by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center. MICHAEL C. ROMANOWSKI Director, NextGen Integration & Implementation Federal Aviation Administration Dr. Michael Romanowski is the Director of FAA s NextGen Integration and Implementation office. His office ensures the application, planning, programming, and budgeting of FAA s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) portfolio and manages its integration and execution across all FAA lines of business. His office is also responsible for FAA s NextGen-related engagement with industry stakeholders. Before joining the FAA, he served as Vice President of Civil Aviation at the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), where he headed all its activities on aviation issues and policy, including the areas of research and development, aviation infrastructure, and safety and security. He also served as the Director of Product Safety, Certification and Airworthiness at Sikorsky Aircraft with responsibilities spanning Sikorsky s entire product line. Before joining Sikorsky, he held a similar role at Pratt & Whitney where his responsibilities covered all of Pratt & Whitney s large commercial engines. He has broad experience in research, development, validation, and fleet operations of jet engines. BRYAN BENEDICT Product Line Manager, Hosted Payloads, Intelsat General Dr. Bryan L. Benedict serves as the Product Line Manager for Hosted Payloads at Intelsat General Corporation. He has worked extensively within both the DoD and US Civil Agencies to socialize the advantages of hosting imaging payloads on commercial spacecraft. Additionally, Dr. Benedict has been a key driver in the commercial industry for the use of space robotics for both recovery and life extension of geosynchronous satellites. Prior to his current position Dr. Benedict served as the Director of Engineering for Satellite Acquisitions for PanAmSat. Dr. Benedict started his career as a chemical engineer in the petroleum industry inventing and patenting several catalysts still used for stabilization of jet fuels. Dr. Benedict earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1986, where he conducted research on the stabilization of high energy materials within crystalline lattices. Dr. Benedict has been awarded a number of patents throughout his career the latest for delivery of microsatellites to orbit piggybacking on the nadir deck of geosynchronous communication satellites. JAMES DUNSTAN Founder, Mobius Legal Group James E. Dunstan is the founder of Mobius Legal Group where he has 30 years assisting clients on issues of high technology, communications, and space law. Jim represents a significant number of burgeoning outer space companies: he drafted and negotiated the first commercial lease for the Russian Mir space station on behalf of MirCorp. Jim assisted in negotiating with the Russian Space Agency and NASA to shoot the first television commercial on board the International Space Station (ISS). He helped arrange for the first pitch of the 2002 baseball World Series to be conducted on board the ISS. He has also been involved in export issues (ITAR) related to experimental hardware launched on Russian rockets. He has assisted a number of clients in crafting Space Act Agreements with NASA. Jim assisted in drafting the Virginia Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act, as well as Virginia s Zero G/Zero Tax legislation as a member of the Virginia JCOTS Aerospace Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Space Frontier Foundation s Teachers In Space project. 4 CENTER for ORBITAL DEBRIS EDUCATION & RESEARCH

6 KEYNOTES BRIAN WEEDEN Secure World Foundation Brian Weeden is the Technical Advisor for Secure World Foundation and has 15 years of professional experience in the national and international space security arena. He is a leader for providing critical analysis that supports development of space policy. Prior to joining SWF, Mr. Weeden served nine years on active duty as an officer in the United States Air Force. As part of U.S. Strategic Command s Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), Mr. Weeden directed the orbital analyst training program and developed tactics, techniques and procedures for improving space situational awareness. In his current role as Technical Advisor, Mr. Weeden conducts research on space debris, global space situational awareness, space traffic management, protection of space assets, and space governance. He is currently Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum s Global Agenda Council on Space Security. Mr. Weeden s research and analysis have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, USA Today, The BBC, Fox News, China Radio International, The Economist, The World Economic Forum s Annual Meeting in Davos, academic journals, presentations to the United Nations, and testimony before the U.S. Congress LEONARD DAVID Space Journalist Leonard David is a space journalist, reporting on space activities for over 45 years. He is co-author with Apollo 11 s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars My Vision for Space Exploration released in May and published by the National Geographic Society. Mr. David is the 2010 winner of the prestigious National Space Club Press Award, presented this honor during the Club s annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner in April 2011 that was held in Washington, D.C. He has been a consultant to NASA, other government agencies and the aerospace industry. In the mid-1980 s he served as Director of Research for the National Commission on Space, a U.S. Congress/White House study that appraised the next 50 to 100 years of space exploration. Currently, Mr. David is SPACE.com s Space Insider Columnist, as well as a correspondent for Space News newspaper and a contributing writer for several magazines, specifically Aerospace America, the membership publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). GUEST SPEAKERS ROGER LAUNIUS Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs National Air and Space Museum Roger D. Launius is Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian of the NASA. A graduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, he received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1982 and worked as a civilian historian with the United States Air Force until He has written or edited more than twenty books on aerospace history, including Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space (NASA SP , 2012), which received the AIAA s history manuscript prize. Dr. Launius has lectured widely on historical subjects to military, academic, technical, and general audiences. He has also served part-time on the faculties of several colleges and universities. In 2009 he received the John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award from the American Astronautical Society, the Secretary s Research Prize from the Smithsonian Institution, and the Roger R. Trask Award from the Society for History in the Federal Government, In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Astronautical Society; and Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. WORKSHOP 2014 College Park, Maryland November

7 PANELS PANEL 1 POLICY AND SECURITY ISSUES PANEL 2 TECHNOLOGY ISSUES PANEL 3 THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY BRIAN WEEDEN Secure World Foundation MARSHALL H. KAPLAN CODER Associate Director Unitersity of Maryland GREGORY A. ORNDORFF Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. KOLLER CREMINS CARROLL PHIPPS BROWN ROGERS WHITNEY BUENNEKE JOSEF KOLLER Space Policy Advisor Office of the Secretary of Defense THOMAS CREMINS Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator for Policy and Strategy Implementation NASA Headquarters PAMELA WHITNEY Minority Professional Staff Space Subcommittee House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology RICHARD BUENNEKE Senior Advisor, Space Policy U.S. Department of State WILLIAMS JOSEPH A. CARROLL President, Tether Applications, Inc. KUMAR CLAUDE R. IYER PHIPPS Photonic Associates, LLC W. DANIEL WILLIAMS Director, Busek Corp. KARTIK KUMAR Dinamica Srl in Milan, Italy KAUSHIK A. IYER Materials Physicist and Section Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory LEBLANC ARMOR OWEN BROWN Chief Technology Officer KTSi AARON ROGERS Program Manager Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory MARK LEBLANC VP, Advanced Technologies and Defense Programs Omitron, Inc. JAMES ARMOR Vice President ATK Spacecraft Systems & Services 6 CENTER for ORBITAL DEBRIS EDUCATION & RESEARCH

8 PANELS PANEL 4 DEBRIS FIELD MODELING AND SIMULATION PANEL 5 CURRENT PRACTICES AND ACTIVE RESEARCH PANEL 6 REMEDIATION ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES LAURI NEWMAN NASA Robotic Conjunction Assessment Mgr., NASA GSFC Robotic Systems Protection Program ROGER THOMPSON Senior Engineering Specialist Mission Analysis and Operations Dept., The Aerospace Corporation GORDON ROESLER Program Manger DARPA Tactical Technologies Office RODRIGUEZ QIAN HULL SPENCER SUNDBERG WINGO EMMERT SHARMA HIGGINS OLTROGGE SHOEMAKER SULLIVAN IVONNE RODRIGUEZ Orbital Debris Specialist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center LIYING QIAN Project Scientist National Center for Atmospheric Research JOHN T. EMMERT Research Physicist Naval Research Laboratory SURJALAL SHARMA Senior Research Scientist Astronomy Department SCOTT HULL Orbital Debris Services Group Leader NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DAVID SPENCER Professor of Aerospace Engineering Pennsylvania State University ANDREW HIGGINS Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering McGill University, Montreal DAN OLTROGGE SDC Program Manager and Sr. Research Astrodynamicist AGI ERIC SUNDBERG Principal Scientist The Aerospace Corporation DENNIS WINGO CEO and Founder Skycorp, Inc. JIM SHOEMAKER Senior Scientist Logos Technologies BROOK SULLIVAN Senior Consultant Space Systems Integration, LLC WORKSHOP 2014 College Park, Maryland November

9 PANELS PANEL 7 ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES PANEL 8 ORBITAL DEBRIS RESEARCH PRIORITIES NOTES CHARLES MILLER President and Owner NexGen Space LLC RAYMOND SEDWICK CODER Director PEARSON HOYT HULL SPENCER QUIGLEY DAVIDSON HIGGINS OLTROGGE JEROME PEARSON President STAR, Inc. ROBERT P. HOYT CEO and Chief Scientist Tethers Unlimited, Inc. ROB QUIGLEY Systems Engineer ATK Spacecraft Systems Division HOYT DAVIDSON Founder and Managing Member Near Earth LLC SCOTT HULL Orbital Debris Services Group Leader NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DAVID SPENCER Professor of Aerospace Engineering Pennsylvania State University ANDREW HIGGINS Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering McGill University, Montreal DAN OLTROGGE SDC Program Manager and Sr. Research Astrodynamicist AGI 8 CENTER for ORBITAL DEBRIS EDUCATION & RESEARCH

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11 The Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support for this workshop. THE DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING The CENTER for ORBITAL DEBRIS EDUCATION and RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND College Park, MD