NASA FISO Presentation: The Deep Space Network – The Next 50 Years “Dr. Leslie J. Deutsch is the Deputy Director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This Directorate provides information services to spacecraft exploring the solar system and beyond. The Directorate’s facilities include NASA’s Deep Space Network, the giant antennas used to communicate with these spacecraft.” Note: The audio file and presentation are available online and […]

NASA FISO Presentation: Design Space for Space Design – Cybernetics, Human-Centered Design “Tibor Balint is a researcher at the Royal College of Art, School of Design, finalizing his second PhD in Innovation Design Engineering. He spent 4 years at NASA-HQ as the Senior Technical Advisor; the Program Executive for GCD at STMD; and a Senior Technologist at OCT. At JPL he worked for 8 years as a mission architect and […]

NASA FISO Presentation: NASA’s Space Launch System: Powering the Journey to Mars “Now available is the August 3, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Chris Sanders (AeroJet Rocketdyne), Mike Fuller (Orbital ATK), and Bob DaLee (Boeing), who discussed “NASA’s Space Launch System: Powering the Journey to Mars.” Note: The audio file and presentation are available online and to download. Marc’s note: The future is SLS […]

NASA FISO Presentation: Mars Science Enabled by the Mars Base Camp 2028 Proposed Architecture “Dr. Steve Jolly is the Lockheed Martin Chief Engineer for the Civil Space line of business. He was the Chief Engineer and Principal Scientist for the GOES-R program and Chief Engineer and Deputy PM for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Steve Bailey has worked exclusively on human and robotic space exploration systems since 1983.” Note: The audio […]

NASA FISO Presentation: Near Real-Time State Models – a Foundational Technology for Space Automation and Robotics, SpaceRef “Now available is the June 22, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Gary Barnhard of Xtraordinary Innovative Space Partnerships, Inc. (XISP-Inc) who discussed Near Real-Time State Models – a Foundational Technology for Space Automation and Robotics.” Includes: Presentation and audio recording of the telecon.

Keith’s note: On Wednesday NASA will officially sponsor a teleconference with NASA NIAC grantee Phil Lubin about the Breakthrough Initative’s Starshot project to mount the first interstellar mission. But unless you are a pal of a certain NASA civil servant, you won’t be allowed to listen in live – even though NASA is paying for this event. Indeed, unless this certain employee decides to tell you, NASA won’t even tell […]

Keith’s note: On Wednesday 21 October there will be another unpublicized NASA-funded/supported FISO telecon “CASIS: Enabling Research on the ISS National Lab for the Benefit of Earth“. There is no mention of this telecon at the GSFC website (where telecon sponsor Harley Thronson works), at NASA HQ’s Calendar (which is empty for October anyway), at the ISS national Laboratory’s webpage – or (no surprise) at CASIS. How strange: CASIS spent […]

NASA FISO Presentation: Bigelow Aerospace’s Past Accomplishments, Present Activities, and Future Plans, SpaceRef “Now available is the July 1, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Mike Gold (Bigelow Aerospace) who discussed “Bigelow Aerospace’s Past Accomplishments, Present Activities, and Future Plans“.

NASA FISO Presentation: Inflatable Antenna for CubeSats “Now available is the May 6, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Alessandra Babuscia (NASA JPL) who discussed “Inflatable Antenna for CubeSats”. Marc’s note: Harley Thronson of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Dan Lester of the University of Texas, to their credit, have been holding almost regular weekly “Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Presentations” since 2006. […]

NASA FISO Telecon: An Overview of NASA’s Evolvable Mars Campaign “Our next Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon colloquium will be June 10, when Doug Craig (NASA HQ HEOMD) will speak on “An Overview of NASA’s Evolvable Mars Campaign.” As always, the colloquium will be at 3pm ET. And please note that there is a new dial-in number for the colloquium as NASA has migrated to a new service: TEL: 844 […]