Venue:  The Westin, Huntsville, AL
NASA Conference Tracking System (NCTS) #28268-17

The ASEC2017 Agenda can be found here:  http://programme.exordo.com/asec2017/

This event is co-sponsored by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), NASA, and NSF and will focus on a broad range of topics related to space environments and their effects on space systems.

Space environment hazards need to be considered during all phases of human and robotic space exploration, from the initial design of a space system architecture, through testing and construction of space systems hardware, and finally during mission operations in order to assure safe and reliable operations to meet program goals.  Historical records from in-situ measurements of relevant environment parameters and space environment engineering design specifications provide the information necessary for characterizing the threat environments to be encountered during a mission.  Design and construction of space systems to reliably operate in the design environments requires the use of space environmental effects modeling tools and testing in order to demonstrate that designs meet mission requirements.  Once on orbit, space environment monitoring and measurements are required to support operational mitigation techniques that address hardware system and crew susceptibilities to extreme space weather events. 

The Applied Space Environments Conference is a forum for the space environment engineering and applied space science community to discuss the discipline’s ability to support current space programs and to identify gaps in knowledge and technology needs required for future exploration goals.  Applicable environments and effects include (but are not limited to): ionizing radiation and radiation effects on hardware and crew, space plasma and spacecraft charging, atomic oxygen in the Earth and Mars environments and its effects on materials, storm time variations in the neutral atmosphere density in planetary environments and satellite drag, solar UV/EUV and x-ray photons, micrometeoroid and orbital debris environments and hypervelocity impact effects on hardware, microgravity, and other environments that impact design and operation of crewed and robotic space systems in the space environment.  A broad range of environments are applicable from low Earth orbit, through the Earth’s magnetosphere, and into interplanetary space as well as environments of other planets, moons, and asteroids.

 

The workshop will be organized into a series of broad themes including (but not limited to):

• Space environment hazard characterization and design environment specifications
• Case studies of space environmental effects, threat analyses, and anomaly investigations
• Models and analytical tools used to evaluate effects of the space environment on hardware and humans
• Test facilities, test methods, and results from testing materials and hardware in simulated space environments
• Space weather now cast and forecast models to protect spacecraft and crew operating in the cis-lunar and Mars environments
• Operational controls to mitigate space environment threats to space system

 

Conveners: 
Dr. Linda Neergaard Parker, USRA                                    Dr. Joseph I. Minow, NASA
lparker@usra.edu                                                                   Joseph.I.Minow@nasa.gov
256-961-7425                                                                             256-544-2850

Science Organizing Committee:

John Alred, JSC	Sharon Miller, GRC	Emily Willis, MSFC
Henry Garrett, JPL	Joseph Minow, LARC	Mike Xapsos, GSFC
Diego Janches, GSFC	Ryan Norman, LARC	Shawn Young, AFRL
Insoo Jun, JPL	Linda Parker, USRA	Yihua Zheng, GSFC
Mark Matney, JSC	Jonny Pellish, GSFC

Local Organizing Committee:
Linda Parker, USRA
Joseph Minow, NASA
Debbie Mitchell, USRA
Emily Jones, USRA