Tuesday, October 22, 2024

8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
New and Refurbished Facilities Session

  • The USAF Research Laboratory’s SCEPTRE Facility (Jessica Hendricks, University of Dayton Research Institute)
  • Development of a Lunar Surface Environment Simulation Chamber (Jonathan Bonebrake, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
  • Construction of Spacecraft Electric Propulsion Test Facility at KARI (Hyokjin Cho, KARI)
  • Disassembly and Cleaning of 12 ft Thermal Vacuum Chamber (Jeffrey Sayler, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics)


1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
TVAC Testing Session

  • SunRISE Propulsion Subsystem Leak Rate Measurement Methodology (Alex Kirkman, Space Dynamics Laboratory)
  • Corona Event in JSC Chamber B and Mitigation Steps (John Speed, NASA Johnson Space Center)
  • Enhancing Space Research Efficiency: Vacuum System to Mitigate Regolith Ingestion (Caitlin Cordelle, Digivac)

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

8:50 - 11:50 a.m.
Contamination and Materials Session

  • Influence of the Accelerated Aging Conditions on Properties of Spacecraft Materials (Elena Plis, Georgia Tech Research Institute)
  • Assessing Mechanical Properties of Spacecraft Materials under Simulated Low Earth Orbit Atomic Oxygen Conditions (Yuliya Kuznetsova, Assurance Technology Corporation)
  • Assessing the Probability and Effects of Self-Contamination Caused by Ionic Liquid Thrusters for Spacecraft Propulsion (Noshin Nawar, Assurance Technology Corporation)
  • Temperature and Humidity Susceptibility of Instrumentation Components (Cruz Gonzalez, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Thursday, October 24, 2024

8:05 - 9:50 a.m.
Dynamics Testing

  • The Structural and Practical Implications of DFAN Testing on Host Facilities: A Comprehensive Overview (Cassandra Dutt, Acoustic Research Systems)
  • Case Study of Large-Scale Direct Field Acoustic Tests: Part One (Eric Friedlander, Acoustic Research Systems)
  • Case Study of an Octave Band Control Method for Structural Response Notching (Dale Schick, Acoustic Research Systems)

10:10 - 11:05 a.m.
Special Topics

  • Building Automation System Replacement and Improvements during Concurrent Integration and Testing for the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility (Nafeez Talukder, Craig Technologies)
  • Grapple, Articulation, and Release testing using the Gravity Offset Testbed (Anthony Iannuzzi, U.S. Naval Research Lab)