Members

• - Prerit Shah, United Space Alliance, Chair
• - Ellen Gillespie, United Space Alliance
• - Jeff Tave, Lockheed Martin
• - Douglas Yazell, Honeywell
• - Murugan Subramaniam, Akima Tech-Link, LLC
• - Ron Sostaric, NASA JSC
• - Alicia Baker, USA Technology Outreach Program
• - Katherine L. Blummer, The Boeing Company
• - Gabe Garrett, ARES Corporation
• - Gregory Joseph, Jacobs ESCG

Charter
To provide a forum for exchange of ideas and information regarding the state of the art and the future of aerospace guidance, navigation, and control. To stimulate education, professional development, and accomplishment by fostering communication and by providing resources.

Goals

• Recruit members for the technical committee and AIAA
• Recruit one technical committee member from each 'GN&C' company in the Clear Lake Area
• Encourage lectures from government, industry, and universities
• Monitor and contribute to the mirror committee on the national level
• Organize lunch-and-learn sessions in the the Houston Clear Lake area (3 or more per year)
• Focus on the technical challenges of the next 3-5 years
• Meet 3-4 times/year, sometimes with national committee, to focus on technical issues in the field
• Interact with other AIAA technical committees, other professional societies, and universities
• Survey tools and techniques
• Initiate and review reports on GN&C aspects of missions to Mars
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Lunch-and-Learns

• September 22, 2006
  Emerging Software Tools for Satellite Design
  James D. Turner/Director of Operations, Consortium for Autonomous Space Systems
  Flier: DOC
  Presentation: PDF
  
  
• February 10, 2006
  NanoMaterials for Space Exploration
  Padraig Moloney/NASA/JSC
  Flier: PDF
  
  
• February 2, 2006
  Where Did That Equation Come From?
  John Goodman/United Space Alliance
  Flier: PDF
  Presentation: PDF
  
  
• July 26, 2005
  In Pursuit of the Phantom Torque
  Jack Bacon/NASA JSC/OM3
  Flier: PDF
  
  
• May 19, 2005
  Hierarchical Navigation Algorithms in Support of Mars Exploration
  Robert H. Bishop / The University of Texas at Austin
  Flier: DOC
  Presentation: PDF
  
  
• September 17, 2004
  Trajectory Optimization from Euler to Lawden to Today
  Christopher D'Souza / The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
  Flier: PDF
  Presentation: PPT, 2.61 MB
  
  
• July 7, 2004
  Some Aspects of N-Dimensional Theoretical Mechanics Dr. John E. Hurtado, Texas A&M
  
  
• January 8, 2004
  Vision Based Relative Navigation for Autonomous Proximity Operations
  Dr. John Valasek, Texas A&M, Dr. Declan Hughes, Starvision Technologies
  Flier: DOC
  Presentation: PPT, 5.99 MB
  
  
• October 21, 2003
  Linear Parameter Varying Control and Applications to Active Microgravity Isolation
  Dr. Karolos Grigoriadis, University of Houston
  Flier: DOC
  Presentation: PDF, 1.67 MB
  
  
• August 19, 2003
  Formation Flying of Satellites-a Generalization of Proximity Operations
  Dr. Srinivas Vadali, Texas A&M University
  Flier: PDF | DOC
  Presentation: PDF, 1.34 MB | PPT, 2.45 MB
  
  
• June 18, 2003
  Graduate Curriculum in Space Architecture
  Professor Larry Bell, University of Houston
  Flier: DOC
  
  
• June 11, 2003
  Flower Constellations-Continuous Coverage of Non-Equatorial Regions with Repeating Tracks
  Dr. Daniele Mortari, Texas A&M University
  Flier: DOC
  Presentation: PPT, 1.9 MB (Updated: 11/10/2004)
  Flower Constellations Group's Web Page at Texas A&M University
  
  
• April 2, 2003
  Geometry of Sun Tracking from Earth Orbit and Related Simulation Initialization
  Douglas Yazell, Honeywell International
  
  
• June 18, 2001
  StarNav and VisNav: A New Generation of Electro-Optical Spacecraft Navigation Sensors and Algorithms
  Dr. John Junkins, Texas A&M University
  Flier: DOC
  Abstract and Speaker's Bio: DOC
  
• February 24, 2000
  MEDS, the Space Shuttle Orbiter's Multifunction Electronic Display System
  Mr. James Newsome and Mr. Danny Siner presented MEDS, the 'glass cockpit' upgrade (shortly before its first flight).
  
  
• Available Videos
  These events are professionally videotaped by NASA/USA. Video recordings of these events are available for free loans for the following speakers:
  Junkins, Bell, Vadali, Gregoriadis, Valasek/Hughes, and Bacon.
  AIAA membership is not required.