National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2010 International Workshop on On-Orbit Satellite Servicing

From March 24-26, 2010, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) hosted an open international workshop to bring potential users and providers of on-orbit servicing capabilities together with the NASA GSFC Satellite Servicing Study Team.

This three-day event drew together fifty-seven individual speakers and over 250 participants from industry, academia, NASA, other agencies, and international organizations.

• Workshop Agenda (PDF)
• Read Space News' April 2010 article on the Study's workshop
• The Workshop proceedings are summarized in the On-Orbit Satellite Servicing Project Report (PDF)

Location

UMUC Inn and Conference Center
3501 University Blvd East
Adelphi, MD 20783 USA

Workshop Topics

• Scientific and non-scientific missions that would benefit from servicing
• Humans in satellite servicing
• In-space robotic technology
• Servicing enabling technologies, including Autonomous Rendezvous and Capture
• Legal and policy issues

During the workshop, the Satellite Servicing Study Team presented the notional mission definition process and the first draft of the Study's notional mission suite for satellite servicing. Participants and RFI responders showcased ideas, technologies and capabilities relevant to satellite servicing and also forecasted existing and planned spacecraft/observatories that would benefit from on-orbit serviceability.

Workshop Presentations

Wednesday March 24
On-Orbit Servicing Systems Should Be Flexible	By: Dr. Stephen Huybrechts
The Role of the Private Sector	By: Edward Horowitz
Servicing Study Objectives	By: Frank Cepollina
Science and Satellite Servicing	By: Dr. Matt Mountain
Servicing and Lagrange Point Ops for Astronomy	By: Dr. Dan Lester
Robotic Servicing for External Occulter	By: Dr. Charley Noecker
Servicing ATLAST	By: Dr. William Oegerle
United Launch Alliance Launch Services	By: Bernard Kutter
Orbital's ISS Resupply Service	By: Bob Richards
LM Overview of Capabilities and Products	By: Barry Miller
The Orbital Life Extension Vehicle	By: Baard Eilertsen
Extra-Zodiacal Exploration	By: Dr. Matt Greenhouse
Solar Sail Assembly/Deployment in Earth Orbit	By: Bruce Campbell
LEO Depot Servicing Impact on Space Missions	By: Dallas Bienhoff
NIMITZ	By: Tom Kessler
Commercial Satellite Servicing Needs and Challenges	By: Joe Rothenberg
Fostering a Commercial Satellite Servicing Industry	By: Charles Miller
Market Interest in Fleet Management On-Orbit Services	By: Baard Eilertsen
Commercial Human Spaceflight	By: Bretton Alexander
Determining the Value of On-Orbit Telescope Servicing	By: Zach Bailey
Is There A Business Case That Makes Sense	By: Barry Miller

Thursday March 25
Hubble Servicing Mission 4	By: Dr. John Grunsfeld
Future Space-based Astro. Observatories	By: Dr. Marc Postman
SpaceStation Telescopes - the Hubble Legacy	By: Dr. Donald Hall
SpaceX Dragon as an In-Orbit Servicing Platform	By: Max Vozoff
Human Servicing Mission to Sun-Earth L2 Telescopes	By: Dallas Bienhoff
Expanding the Final Frontier: The Bigelow Aerospace Story	By: Mike Gold
Human Servicing Operations Beyond LEO...	By: Dr. Harley Thronson
International Space Station Assembly Lessons Learned	By: Sam Scimemi
SNC Advanced Manipulator Technology	By: Scott Christiansen
Orbital Express	By: Lt. Col. Fred Kennedy
Orbital Robotic Servicing	By: Dr. Glen Henshaw
Raytheon Sarcos Robotic Systems: Technology for Application...	By: Don McMonagle
Robotic Solutions for On-Orbit Servicing	By: John Lymer
Lessons Learned At JPL about Servicing	By: Brian Wilcox
Dexterous Robotics and the Robonaut Series	By: Dr. Robert Ambrose
CSA Activities in On-Orbit Robotic Servicing	By: Daniel Rey
Robotic and EVA/Robotic Servicing...	By: Dr. Dave Akin
Technologies and Associated Servicing Architecture	By: Bill Vincent
Oceaneering Robotics: Parallels to Satellite Servicing	By: Todd Colangelo
Honeybee Robotics: An Overview of OOS Capabilities	By: Kiel Davis
Improved Robotic Enablers for Satellite Servicing	By: Doyle Towles
Enabling Technologies for Remote Robotic Manipulation...	By: Prof. Louis Whitcomb

Friday March 26
In-Orbit Fluid Transfer for Satellite Servicing	By: Dr. David Chato
Solar Electric Propulsion Application for Orbital Servicing	By: Therese Griebel
Innovative In-Space Propulsion for Spacecraft Servicing	By: Joe Cassady
ESPA as Base Vehicle for Servicing Missions	By: Joseph Maly
SS Using the Cygnus Advanced Maneuvering Vehicle	By: Warren Frick
SPHERES as a Servicing Testbed	By: Dr. Javier De Luis & Dr. Swati Mohan
Autonomous Rendezvous and Proximity Operations	By: Ian T. Mitchell
Advanced Imaging and Relative Navigation Technology	By: Kevin Miller
GN&C and Sensors for Rendezvous and Capture	By: Tom Gardner
3D Flash LIDAR Cameras for OSS Applications	By: Dr. Roger Stettner
TriDAR Model Based Tracking Vision System...	By: Stephane Ruel