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Federal AviationAdministration 1

COE CST Research Road Mapping Workshop #2August 16, 2011

Federal AviationAdministrationResearch Area 2:

Space Transportation Operations,

Technologies & Payloads

Presentation at the Center of Excellence for

Commercial Space Transportation Research Road Map Workshop 2

August 16, 2011Nick DemidovichAST R&D Advisory Board Member



AGENDA• Outputs from Workshop #1

• Research Area 2 Hierarchy• Primary Goals for Workshop #2

• Complete Research Area Hierarchy• Identify Broad Research Topics• Identify Specific Tasks• Identify High Priority Tasks

• Low-hanging fruit to enable safer, more reliable Commercial Space Transportation

• Lowering cost, improving mission rate are force multipliers• Additional Goal identify efficient means to:

• Prevent duplication of efforts by • NASA, DOD, NSF, and possibly NOAA, DOT and other

USG agencies• University and/or private sector community

• Leverage current/prior R&D efforts for FAA/Comm Space industry benefit



New Areas we addressed• Man rated vehicle safety technology

•payloads•ECLSS•Safety enabling sensors recorders

• Insurance reduction/learn from other transportation modes

• NASA Commercial RLV technology roadmap –study



Research Area 2 Hierarchy



Research Area 2.1 Hierarchy

Broad Research Topics

Space OpsGround Ops

Pre-launch processing



Ideas/questions to answer• 2.1.1.5

• Examine technology options for near Real Time wind predictions.• Develop wind technologies to support launch and re-entry

• 2.1.2• Research and recommend a certification program for maintenance

technicians. Space equivalent from aviation• Research, advance mobile range concepts• Explore low cost concepts for down range

• 2.1.3• Explore lessons learned (extrapolation) from aviation to spacecraft industry.

• 2.1.2 / 2.1.5• ** Research and recommend safe, expeditious, and cost efficient processing

of reusable manned or unmanned vehicles that are payloads on ELVs• Landing, inspection, modification if needed, transportation, and

integration• **Explore expeditious way for licensing

• When minor changes to a licensed spacecraft, consider between having to re-license entire spacecraft or license the specific change




Broad Research Topics

GNC

Simulation and Testing

FMEA

Rapid prototypingHardwareSoftware



Ideas/questions to answer• 2.2.3

• ** Explore expeditious processes to migrate technologies and payloads to be tested in flight

• 2.2.2.3 • **Expeditious handling of design upgrades. From a licensing/permit

perspective.• How to plan and expeditiously capture changes to avoid delaying licensing

• 2.2.2.1• Study environmental damage to RLVs and RVs due to lightning, ice crystals,

etc.• Design guidelines• Consider experimentation for composites RLVs

• 2.2.2.3• * Research the physics and impacts of re-entry debris

• 2.2.2• Analysis for inland landing locations for different stages

• Inland parachute landings of stages and re-entry• Investigation of Instrumentation and telemetry.

• Active space debris removal



Ideas/questions to answer• 2.2.3.2

• Software Testing• Investigate lessons learned from NASA or other agencies in

software development• Get cyber security recommendations from other industries

• 2.3• *Study how to facilitate small companies to have access to NASA

and FAA test facilities (e.g. test chambers)• Investigate how to use aircraft subsystems in spacecraft

• What study or analysis are required?• How to space rate air-breathing engines, avionics?

• *Investigate what NASA and FAA do for handling c.g locations for aircraft before flight• How to make this process reliable?• What techniques are used?• How do to use this to process payloads?




2.3.1.1 Real Time InstrumentationComms / transponders beaconsFTSDetection SystemsPropellant monitoringIntegrated Vehicle Health System/FDIR (Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery)

2.3.2 post Flight Diagnostic EquipmentBlack Box, life cycle detection

2.3.3 Crew Survivavility (ECLSS)2.3.4 Additional Safety Critical subsystems/Safety Enabling technologies



Ideas/questions to answer• 2.3.1.1-2

• **Analyze which systems can be leveraged from aviation, and identify the type of analysis required

• 2.3.1.1 • *Study literature on redundancy for safety critical systems

• Guidelines for redundancy levels• With inputs from theme 3, how to improve safety critical systems for manned

vehicles• 2.3.1.1

• How can the COE look at migrating these emerging or existing technologies to the spacecraft world.

• Identify these technologies and put it on the shelf for RLV/ELVs• Consider self repairing materials

• 2.3.1.1• Consider Fuel system status

• 2.3.3• Provide ECLSS standards/recommendations

• Inputs needed• 2.3.1.1 Beacon transponder, navigation inputs needed from theme 1• 2.3.2 Inputs needed from theme 3




VehicleCrew




• * How much information does a developer/operator need to tell the FAA in order to safely fly a payload (leverage work from NASA FOP program)?• For purely commercial, what type of disclosure is required?• Define a standard for cargo vs. scientific/engineering payload

• 2.4.3• Study payload impacts on human/crew safety

• How to screen products for use in orbit• List of things that people can be allowed to bring into space (on

suborbital tourism flights)• 2.4.4

• *Case study of a generic deployment of a payload on an RLV, and how to do a safety analysis on this• How to deploy a payload? It is safe for the vehicle?• How to isolate the crew from dangerous cargo?

• 2.4 Input needed from theme 3




Voluntarymandatory

TTSReturn to flight status after off nominal operation




• **Return to flight after off nominal operation-> Develop minimum requirements, guidelines

• *Study interoperability of commercial space safety management system with other FAA and TBD agencies

• Guidelines for RLVs, ELVs, spaceport operators, etc• *Hazmat template of what toxic materials need to be provided to fire

departments to assess resulting fire due to a vehicle crash• What are the potential hazards on the ground due to new materials on a

spacecraft?• What are operators needed to provide in emergency situations

• Explore technical systems that can scan for aircraft in the operating area• What is the desired resolution• How do we ensure that the air space is clear.

• Inputs needed from theme 1• Guidelines for contingency operations• Off nominal operation protocols to determine what equipment is needed.• What is the desired interaction between the FAA and the vehicle operator to solve

problems?



Overarching Areas of Concern• Human rating Impact on the payload and vice versa

• Area 3 crossover• On orbit aborts (rendezvous and docking)• Technology

• Active Space debris removal• OTV technologies (nuclear, other advanced

technologies)• Should we develop a set of standard courses for FAA

personal doing analysis, and operators, and developers• Workshop with NASA

• where does NASA stop, FAA begins on CRS?• Input from theme 1 for NAS integration and space traffic

management for technology and payload development



Let’s make it happen!

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