Activities

This page contains activities and calendar events sponsored or endorsed by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Space Architecture Technical Committee. The activities are grouped according to the following topics:

• Subcommittee Activities
• Upcoming Events
• Recent Events
• Participation
• Ten Year Plan

Subcommittee Activities

Construction
2012/12/23 – Raúl Pólit-Casillas

• The purpose of the Construction Subcommittee of SATC is to promote the generation and dissemination of ideas, concepts, designs, technologies and techniques related to extraterrestrial construction to support human presence in space and on planetary surfaces. These include site planning, in situ resources utilization, advanced materials, structures with high degrees of prefabrication and automatic / robotic deployment, advanced constructive design and implementation, and emergent processes such as digital manufacturing and rapid fabrication. For this purpose this subcommittee will also tackle likely applications of this developing knowledge to current challenges of terrestrial construction. The Construction Subcommittee will also participate in organizing conferences and other venues for exchanging ideas, concepts and technology related to this topic.

Education
2010/11/04 – Donna Duerk

• We are still working on our book and will be having a telecon next week on Tuesday the 9th to discuss our current work.  We have a Table of Contents, plus drafts of an Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2.  The Preface is in limbo and will probably best be written after all the other chapters are finished.  Our goal is to have something worth sending to internal reviewers by the end of the month and then after that review, revise and send to several publishers.  It is an ambitious goal, given the nature of design by committee and the pace of our work so far.

Human Factors & Design

Professional & Liaison
2010/11/06 – Renee Matossian

• David Nixon has set-up an SATC-presence at the AIA’s KnowledgeNet website at http://network.aia.org/AIA/AIA/Home/.  (Thank you David!)  Those web-links/blogs that are most-frequently updated appear at the top of the AIA page, so David is encouraging everyone to sign up as a site member (you don't need to be an AIA member to do so, and it’s free) and to contribute relevant information to the blog so that it will appear more prominently toward the top of the AIA page and be more visible to new and interested parties.  (The direct link to the forum is here.)
• After many years of anticipation and consideration (ok … and procrastination), we’re finally starting to piece together an official spacearch.org gallery!  Georgi Petrov has already created a web-template (and explained some of the mysteries of HTML code to me … thanks Georgi!) and I’m working on digesting and applying all this new information and plugging images from the Out of This World book and text into the gallery format (without screwing up the website).  It’s a slow-moving project, but heading in the right direction.
• Ted Hall has expressed interest in beefing-up and overseeing the AIAA/SATC website page.  (Once the spacearch.org gallery is up and running, we will link it to the AIAA/SATC site and have a more visible (graphically and otherwise) presence there too.
• After ICES-Barcelona and the Valencia Workshop, our Co-Chair, Raúl Pólit Casillas began working on his Masters of Space Studies at ISU in Strasbourg, France, which means he’s is probably now fully-immersed, and sleeping about 3-4 hours per night.  (How’s it going Raúl?)
• Our “quarterly” Liaison subcommittee telecoms were short-lived (I think we had 2 in the past year?) but we’re emailing one-another as necessary.

Upcoming Events

• 2012 Jul 15-19, San Diego, California, USA: 42nd International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES).  Abstracts due 2011 Nov 15.  Call for Papers
• 2012 Sep 11-13, Pasadena, California, USA: AIAA Space 2012 Conference & Exposition.  Abstracts due 2012 Jan 26.  Call for Papers
• 2012 Oct 1-5, Naples, Italy: 63rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC).  Abstracts due 2012 Feb 29.  Call for Papers

Recent Events

• 2011 Oct 3-7, Cape Town, South Africa: 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC).  Abstracts due 2011 Mar 2.  Call for Papers
• 2011 Sep 26-29, Long Beach, California, USA: AIAA Space 2011 Conference & Exposition.  Abstracts due 2011 Jan 25.  Call for Papers
• 2011 Jul 17-21, Portland, Oregon, USA: 41st International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES).  Abstracts due 2010 Nov 15.  Call for Papers
• 2010 Sep 27 - Oct 1, Prague, Czech Republic: 61st International Astronautical Congress.  Abstracts due 2010 Mar 5.  Call for Papers
• 2010 Aug 30 - Sep 2, Anaheim, California, USA: AIAA Space 2010 Conference & Exposition.  Abstracts due 2010 Feb 1.  Call for Papers  Minutes
• 2010 Jul 16, Valencia, Spain: Aliter: Approaching Space Architecture (Otherwise).  Event Summary
• 2010 Jul 11-15, Barcelona, Spain: 40th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES).  Abstracts due 2009 Nov 20.  Call for Papers  Event Summary
• 2009 Oct 12-16, Daejeon, South Korea: 60th International Astronautical Congress.  Abstracts due 2009 Mar 2.  Call for Papers
• 2009 Sep 14-17, Pasadena, California, USA: AIAA Space 2009 Conference & Exposition.  Abstracts due 2009 Feb 17.  Call for Papers
• 2009 Jul 12-16, Savannah, Georgia, USA: ICES technical paper sessions.
• 2009 Jan 4, Orlando, Florida, USA: AIAA / SATC meetings at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.  See the charts / minutes of the committee meeting.
• 2008 Sep 19 - Oct 3, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: 59th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) session on "The Architecture of Space" organized by the IAF.
• 2008 Sep 9-11, San Diego, California, USA: AIAA / SATC meetings, AIAA Space 2008 conference.
• 2008 Jun 29 - Jul 2, San Francisco, California, USA: AIAA / SATC meetings & ICES technical paper sessions.  See the minutes and charts of the committee meetings.
• 2008 Mar 3-5, Long Beach, California, USA: ASCE Earth & Space Conference, Space Architecture technical papers sessions organized by ASCE Committee for Space Architecture. Dinner organized by SATC.  See group photo of the dinner event.
• 2008 Jan 7-10, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / SATC meetings at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. This was the historic first meeting of the new Space Architecture Technical Committee.  See the minutes and charts of the committee meetings.
• 2007 Sep 24-28, Hyderabad, India: 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) Space Architecture technical paper sessions organized by IAA.
• 2007 Sep 18-19, Long Beach, California, USA: AIAA / DETC meetings -- last meeting as the Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee (ASASC).  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2007 Aug 24 establishment of AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee approved by AIAA directors.
• 2007 Jul 9-12, Chicago, Illinois, USA: AIAA / DETC / ASASC meetings & ICES technical paper sessions.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2007 Jan 9-10, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / DETC Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2006 Sep 18-19, San Jose, California, USA: AIAA / DETC Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting at the 2nd International Space Architecture Symposium / AIAA Space 2006 Conference.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2006 Jan 10-11, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / DETC Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2005 Aug 30-31, Long Beach, California, USA: AIAA / DETC Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting at the AIAA Space 2005 Conference.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2005 Jul 11-14, Rome, Italy: AIAA / DETC / ASASC meetings & ICES technical papers sessions.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2005 Jan 11-12, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / DETC Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
• 2004 Sep 28 - 30, San Diego, California, USA: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting & Space Technology 2004 technical paper sessions at the AIAA Space 2004 conference.
• 2004 Jul 19 - 22, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meetings & ICES technical paper sessions.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meeting.
  Location: SAE 34th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES2004).
• 2004 Jan 6 - 8, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meeting.
  Location: AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference.
• 2003 Sep 23 - 25, Long Beach, California, USA: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting & Space Technology 2003 technical paper sessions.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
  Location: AIAA Space 2003 conference
• 2003 Jul 7 - 10, Vancouver, BC, Canada: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meetings & ICES technical paper sessions.  See the minutes of the subcommittee meetings.
  Location: SAE 33rd International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES2003).
• 2003 Jan 6 - 9, Reno, Nevada, USA: AIAA / DETC / Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee meeting.  See the minutes of the meeting.
  Location: AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference.
• 2002 Oct 10 - 11, Houston, Texas, USA: The 1st Aerospace Architecture Symposium (SAS2002) at the World Space Congress. Technical papers from the symposium can be viewed and downloaded from the AIAA online technical information site. For information on how to obtain a user name and password for this site, contact AIAA customer service.  See the paper listings in the program for the symposium.  Video streams of the presentations are also viewable from this page.

Participation

The SATC has defined a working model for participation in TC activities, described in a white paper.

Ten Year Plan

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Archives:

1998 - 2002 5 year plan