KECK INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES

       

Large Space Apertures

November 10-11, 2008
California Institute of Technology

Workshop Overview:

The workshop provided an opportunity for interaction between the local participants (from Caltech and JPL) and a number of external participants that will shape the future directions of an ongoing 6-month study that began with this kick-off workshop. Our aim is to make a lasting impact on the field of large space apertures.

The Large Apertures Workshop had the following objectives:

  1. What are the community’s needs for (a) optical apertures or (b) RF apertures in the next 10-20 years?
  2. What is the state of the art in optical and RF apertures?
  3. What are the roadblocks that prevent us from meeting the community’s needs, given the state of the art?
  4. What approaches could be followed to address these roadblocks?

Workshop Participants:

  • Greg S. Agnes - JPL
  • Bibb B. Allen - Harris Corporation
  • Jim B. Breckinridge - JPL
  • Allen J. Bronowicki - NGST
  • Jianguo Cai - Caltech
  • Tim S. Clark - DARPA
  • Gene M. Cliff - Virginia Tech
  • Rick E. Cofield - JPL
  • Tom A. Cwik - JPL
  • Greg L. Davis - JPL
  • X. Deng - Caltech
  • Jennifer A. Dooley - JPL
  • Mark W. Dragovan - JPL
  • Bob E. Freeland - JPL
  • Bob E. Giampaoli - NGC
  • Jackie G. Gish - Northrop Grumman
  • Marcial Gonzalez - Caltech
  • Feras Habbal - Caltech
  • Fred Y. Hadaegh - JPL
  • Rick G. Helms - JPL
  • Phil J. Henderson - Harris Corp
  • Terry L. Herdman - Virginia Tech
  • Greg Hickey - JPL
  • Claus C. Hoff - JPL
  • Tracy H. Kidd - Northrop Grumman
  • Naoko Kishimoto - Japan Aerospace Explor. Agency
  • Anton M. Koekemoer - STScI
  • Kawai Kwok - Caltech
  • Mark S. Lake - EagleRock Consulting, LLC
  • Dan Lester - University of Texas
  • Marie B. Levine - JPL
  • Marty Levine - JPL
  • Zac J. Lizer - Applied Minds
  • Francisco Lopez Jimenez - Caltech
  • John W. Lucas
  • Chinthaka Mallikarachchi - Caltech
  • Geoff W. Marks - NGST Astro Aerospace
  • Michael E. McEachen - ATK
  • Jon M. Mihaly - Caltech
  • Mehran Mobrem - NGST Astro Aerospace
  • Jim D. Moore - ManTech SRS
  • Matt M. Mountain - STScI
  • Alina Moussessian - JPL
  • Tom Murphey - Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Dave M. Murphy - ATK Spacecraft Systems
  • Michael Ortiz - Caltech
  • Satoru Ozawa - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Sergio Pellegrino - Caltech
  • Lee D. Peterson - JPL
  • Ron S. Polidan - NGST
  • Tom Price - Xinetics
  • Marco B. Quadrelli - JPL
  • Jason Rabinovitch - Caltech
  • Yahya Rahmat-Samii - UCLA
  • Julian J Rimoli - Caltech
  • Ares J. Rosakis - Caltech
  • Julian Santiago Prowald - ESA-ESTEC
  • Virendra Sarohia - JPL
  • Bob E. Skelton - UCSD
  • Phil Stahl - NASA
  • Olive R. Stohlman - Caltech
  • Mark W. Thomson - JPL
  • Maria Tupputi - Caltech
  • Pete A. Warren - Foster-Miller/QinetiQ
  • Keats K. Wilkie - JPL
  • Cliff E. Willey - ILC Dover LP
  • KT T. Zamora -DARPA/SETA
  • Feng Zhao - JPL

Workshop Presentations

Sergio Pellegrino
Caltech

Deployable Structures: What Have We Learnt During the What Have We Learnt During the Last 10 Years?
(.pdf)

(video)

Michael Ortiz
Caltech

Large Space Apertures
(.pdf)

(video)

Jennifer Dooley
JPL

Roving, sample acquisition and sample manipulation: existing and plausible capabilities
(video)

Bob Freeland
JPL

Deployable Antenna Structures Technologies 
(.pdf)
(video)

Matt Mountain
Space Telescope Science Institute

Going from HST to JSWT and Beyond: The Science Drivers for Large Apertures in Space
(.pdf)

(video)

Robert Giampaoli 
NGST

Engineering the James Webb Space Telescope
(.pdf)

Julian Santiago Prowald 
ESTEC

Large Deployable Antennas 
(.pdf)

Satoru Ozawa 
JAXA

Large Deployable Reflector on Engineering Test Satellite VIII
(.pdf)

Mark Thomson
JPL
Mechanical vs. Inflatable Deployable Structures
(.pdf)
Feng Zhao 
JPL
Metrology Systems
(.pdf)
Dave Redding 
JPL
Active and Adaptive Optics
(.pdf)
Mark Lake  Vision for Future Reflector Technologies
(.pdf)
Leri Datashvili via Julian Santiago Prowald 
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
SMART Reflectors
(.pdf)
Tom Murphey 
AFRL/RVSV
Deployable Structures
(.pdf)
Mark Dragovan 
JPL
Membrane Telescopes
(.pdf)
Marie Levine 
JPL
Overview of Exoplanet Exploration Concepts
(.pdf)
Jim Breckinridge 
JPL
Optical system science Optical system science & technology & technology
(.pdf)
Timothy Clark 
DARPA
DARPA Investment in Large Apertures
(.pdf)
Richard Cofield 
JPL
Composition of the Atmosphere from Mid-Earth Orbit (CAMEO) Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder (SMLS)
(.pdf)
Dan Lester 
University of Texas
Large Space Apertures: Customers & Users - The Long View From Astronomy
(.pdf)
Anton Koekemoer 
Space Telescope Science Institute
Scientific Drivers for a Large UV -Opt -NIR Space Telescope / NIR Space Telescope Telescope / “ATLAST” concept study
(.pdf)