Next ATWG Roundtable Forum Agenda:
ATWG Future of Space Planning Workshop
A New Beginning
December 9-11, 2008
Moffett Field
Sunnyvale, CA
“A New Beginning"
ATWG Administration:
1614 Pine Crest Drive
Pearland, Texas 77581
Preparation
Questions
- A. What terrestrial tasks can be done through space that can’t be done, or done
as well, or as flexibly entirely on the Earth?
- B. What
methods can we use to inform Americans and other world citizens about what
space can do for our society?
- C. What
are the shared priorities between civilian and military governmental and
commercial entities?
- D. What
new concepts need to be embraced to bring down the cost of space operations:
goal - by up to one or more orders of magnitude?
- E. What
functions and real demand exist to make the investment in the use of the ISS
justifiable on into the future?
- F. What
legal obligations do commercial space service providers and governmental
agencies have "at present"?
- What legal rights do they
need "now and in the reasonably foreseeable future" to
facilitate private sector efforts?
- What domestic and
international laws need to be changed to make private commercial space entrepreneurs
viable in international economic competition?
- G. In
what additional capabilities and ways could space be used to augment and make
more useful to all nations the monitoring of the Earth’s environment?
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ATWG Future of Space Planning Workshop |
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Tuesday |
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December 9, 2008 |
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8:00 AM |
8:30 AM |
Registration & Sign In |
All |
| Roundtable |
8:30 AM |
8:40 AM |
Greeting |
Gary Martin |
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8:40 AM |
8:50 AM |
A New Beginning - Workshop Theme and Purpose |
Rick Eckelkamp |
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8:50 AM |
9:05 AM |
New Opportunities for a New Administration |
Ken Cox |
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9:05 AM |
9:25 AM |
The Honest Broker, a Method for Progress |
Hylan Lyon |
| Economic Crisis Outfalls |
9:25 AM |
9:30 AM |
Economic Crisis Outfalls Introduction |
Hylan Lyon |
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9:30 AM |
9:50 AM |
Economic Crisis Outfalls Team Sessions 26a, 26b, 26c, 26d, 26e, 34 |
All |
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9:50 AM |
10:15 AM |
Team Summaries and Consensus |
Leads |
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10:15 AM |
10:25 AM |
Break |
All |
| Space Transportation |
10:25 AM |
10:45 AM |
Launch and Space Transporation Challenge Introduction |
Rick Eckelkamp |
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10:45 AM |
11:10 AM |
Advanced Space Propulsion Research Progress - second file |
Andrew Palfreyman |
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11:10 AM |
11:30 AM |
Space Propulsion Workshop Team Sessions |
All |
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11:30 AM |
11:55 AM |
Team Summaries and Consensus |
Leads |
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11:55 AM |
12:45 PM |
Lunch |
All |
| Space Law |
12:45 PM |
1:05 PM |
Introduction to Space Law |
Stephen Doyle |
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1:05 PM |
1:25 PM |
Space Law Workshop Group Discussion |
All |
| Roundtable |
1:25 PM |
1:45 PM |
Living in Space, An Exciting new ATWG Book |
Sherry Bell |
| Space-based Solar Power |
1:45 PM |
2:55 PM |
Debate Space-based Solar Power (SBSP) Economics - Pete Worden
vs. 8a, 8b, 8c, 28, 40 |
Gary Barnhard |
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2:55 PM |
3:45 PM |
Audience participation |
All |
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3:45 PM |
3:55 PM |
Break |
All |
| Roundtable |
3:55 PM |
4:15 PM |
National Space Planning |
Lynn Harper |
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4:15 PM |
4:40 PM |
Let’s Do It Action Summary, Part I |
Ken Cox |
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4:40 PM |
7:35 PM |
The Debate discussed |
All |
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7:35 PM |
7:35 PM |
Adjourn |
All |
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ATWG Future of Space Planning Workshop |
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Wednesday |
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December 10, 2008 |
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| Roundtable |
8:05 AM |
8:15 AM |
Introduction |
Rick Eckelkamp |
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8:15 AM |
8:45 AM |
Upcoming NSS Events 29, 30, 33 |
Mark Hopkins |
| Space-based Solar Power |
8:45 AM |
9:25 AM |
U.S. Power Grids Now and in the Future |
Dave Goodwin |
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9:25 AM |
10:05 AM |
DOD Space-Based Solar Efforts |
Paul Damphousse |
| Roundtable |
10:05 AM |
10:55 AM |
ATWG Charge Keynote |
Gary Martin |
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10:55 AM |
11:30 AM |
DOE Activities in Solar Power |
John Benner |
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11:30 AM |
11:55 AM |
Wireless Power Transfer among Spacecraft - 16a, 16b, 16c |
Andy Turner |
| Space-based Solar Power |
11:55 AM |
12:40 PM |
Accumulative Results of SBSP Technical & Economic Efficacy
Studies |
Neville Marzwell |
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12:40 PM |
12:50 PM |
Overview Space Governance - 22a, 22b |
Bob Krone |
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12:50 PM |
1:15 PM |
Lunch |
All |
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1:15 PM |
1:20 PM |
Workshop Team Sessions Introduction |
Rick Eckelkamp |
| Education Workshop |
1:20 PM |
1:40 PM |
Education Workshop Team Sessions - 25a, 25b, 34 |
All |
| Space Law |
1:40 PM |
2:00 PM |
Space Law Workshop Group Discussion - 24, 34 |
All |
| Space Transportation |
2:00 PM |
2:20 PM |
Space Propulsion Workshop Team Sessions - 24, 34 |
All |
| Space-based Solar Power |
2:20 PM |
2:40 PM |
Space-based Solar Power Outfalls Team Sessions - 27a, 27b, 27c, 27d, 34 |
All |
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2:40 PM |
3:35 PM |
Team Summaries and Consensus |
Leads |
| Futurist Workshop |
3:35 PM |
4:10 PM |
The State of Earth’s Environment – climate, pollution,
et al
Artic Sea Ice movie |
Steve Hipskind |
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4:10 PM |
4:45 PM |
Advanced Life Support Needs and Opportunities |
Mark Kliss |
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4:45 PM |
4:50 PM |
Let’s Do It Action Summary, Part II |
Rick Eckelkamp |
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4:50 PM |
7:00 PM |
Let’s Do It Action Summary, Part II continued |
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7:00 PM |
7:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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Workshop Team Questions
| Workshop |
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| Economic Crisis Outfalls |
Team 1 What
would the nation’s and international civilian and military space programs
look like five and tens years from now, assuming that
expenditures for these items are
reduced by as much as fifty
percent?
Team 2 How
would the above reductions affect commercial space business?
Team 3 What activities
to secure lasting energy capabilities should be performed over the next
25-100 years while the Earth’s fossil fuels bridge is still
intact?
Give
specifics on alternate energy production methods, research areas, conservation, policies, …. |
| Space Transportation |
Team 1 What
are the all the possible methods of delivering non-human cargo to Earth
orbit? What is
the current state of development of these methods? (theory, lab demo, ...
Team 2 Enumerate
the present and in-development vehicles for delivering humans to Earth orbit? What
other possible methods or vehicles to get humans to orbit?
Team 3 How can
schedule and cost be reduced by international cooperation? |
| Space Law |
ATWG What
are implications of space and commercial Earth law on ATWG aerospace
activities? |
| Space-based Solar Power |
Team 1 What
are the possible ways of producing power in space? What
testing and prototyping of SBSP elements need to be done before making
program go or no go decision?
Team 2 What
are the advantages of producing electricity in Earth orbit versus on the
Earth’s surface? For
what applications could space-produced power be used on Earth?
Team 3 What
are the technical challenges in building an SBSP system?
Team 4 What are
the technical challenges of operating and maintaining a SBSP system?
Team 5 What
are the details of possible organizational alliances, both national &
international? |
| Education Workshop |
Team 1 How can
ATWG members help promote, execute, and inspire STEM education among youth? What
would be the attributes of a "Space Corp" (perhaps similar to the
Peace Corp)?
Team 2 How can
adult life-long learning be encouraged?
Team 3 What
are possible k-through-college space-oriented and space-based educational
facilities?
Team 4 What
are methods for ATWG mentoring of upcoming space professionals?
Team 5 What
can we do to get the STEM challenges in front of k-12th grade
educators? What
can be done to encourage universities, researchers, and private enterprise to
work together both to conduct basic science research and to pursue promising
applications rather than restrict activities to
those instantly applicable to current programs and projects? |
Type |
Let's
Do It Products |
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A |
An ATWG
letter to the new president |
B |
1-3 page briefs for government & industry staffers |
C |
5-10 page white papers for more in-depth study |
D |
Talking
points for further ATWG work |
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Recommended implementation SBSP plan |
F |
ATWG
forward actions with dates and actionees |
G |
Suggestions
for ATWG methods' improvements |
H |
Suggestions
for ATWG website improvements |
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Suggestions
for ATWG communication improvements |
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Suggestions
for ATWG strand activities |
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voluntary |
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for fee |
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