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(Saturday, May 1, 2021) (1) AIAA LA-LV Excellence Award 2021 Announcement, by Dr. Jeff Puschell ; (2) Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: challenges, first flights and live Q&A with a member of the team, by Dr. Jeff Delaune
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AIAA LA-LV e-Town Hall Meeting
(1) AIAA LA-LV Excellence Award 2021 Announcement,
by Dr. Jeff Puschell
*Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team
To be presented to:
Ms. Mimi Aung
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
*Mars 2020 / Perseverance Rover Team
To be presented to:
Mr. Allen Chen
Systems engineer in the Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems and Advanced Technologies group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mr. Aaron Stehura
EDL Systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
**AIAA LA-LV Best Event 2021
Space Architecture Gathering
To be presented to:
Prof. Madhu Thangavelu
Faculty Member, USC / ISU
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(2) Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: challenges, first flights and live Q&A with a member of the team, by Dr. Jeff Delaune
(Online on Zoom)
Saturday, May 1, 2021, 10 AM PDT (US/Canada)
Tentative Agenda (All Time PDT (Pacific Daylight-Saving Time, US and Canada))
10:05 AM PDT: Welcome and AIAA LA-LV Excellence Award 2021 Announcement (Dr. Jeff Puschell, AIAA LA-LV/Raytheon)
10:25 AM PDT: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: Design challenges, first flights and live Q&A with a member of the team (Dr. Jeff H. Delaune, NASA JPL)
11:40 AM PDT: Adjourn
Dr. Jeff Puschell
Section Chair, AIAA LA-LV Section; Fellow, AIAA
Principal Engineering Fellow
Chief Scientist, Space Systems
Raytheon Intelligence & Space
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
Chief Scientist, Space Systems
Raytheon Intelligence & Space
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
Dr. Jeff Puschell is an internationally recognized scientist-engineer with 30+ years of proven success as Principal Investigator, Chief Scientist, Chief Engineer, Technical Director or Lead System Engineer on 15+ major projects sponsored by governments and private industry in space-based remote sensing, laser-based systems, observational astrophysics and underwater laser systems. He is author or co-author of 130+ technical publications, co-editor and co-author of Space Mission Engineering: The New SMAD, the leading textbook and reference source for space systems engineering, co-author for Standard Handbook for Aerospace Engineers, 2nd Edition and co-author for AccessScience, among many other publications. He is a Raytheon Principal Engineering Fellow, AIAA Fellow and SPIE Fellow. He and his wife Dana live in Hermosa Beach and Solvang, California.
Dr. Puschell been a space guy since first grade. His earliest memory of wonder is from a dark summer night. After arriving home with his family, his father picked him up from the back seat of their 1959 Edsel to carry him into the house, because he had been asleep. As his father picked him up, he woke up and looked up at the summer Milky Way, immediately awestruck. That moment propelled him to who he is today. His parents reinforced that wonder on his next birthday with a 2.5 inch Gilbert Newtonian reflector telescope, which he used until he made an 8 inch Newtonian reflector from an Edmund kit in junior high school. Along the way, he made and launched Estes rockets, entered and won awards in local, regional, state and national science fairs. He has been blessed with a life of endless wonder that he is always happy to share with others.
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Ms. Mimi Aung
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project Manager
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MiMi Aung is a project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, where she is leading the project to develop a Mars helicopter technology demonstration. Since joining JPL in 1990 she has performed various roles in multiple disciplines on space flight and Deep Space Network (DSN) projects, technology development, and line management. She is passionate about space exploration, especially to advance the autonomous capability of spacecraft exploring deep space.
She started in the DSN development of its first operational digital receiver system, the Block V Receiver. She developed, analyzed, and tested receiver algorithms, and continued work through implementation to operationalization at all three DSN complexes across the globe. She then led a multidisciplinary team to evaluate the applicability of the monopulse technique for precise pointing of the 34-meter-diameter antennas, leading to operational use in the DSN. She next worked on the Earth Orbiting System Microwave Limb Sounder instrument as a cognizant engineer for the 240 GHz radiometer.
In 2000 she became project element manager for the autonomous formation flying sensor on the StarLight two-spacecraft interferometer mission, where she applied her knowledge of transmit/receive systems to the determination of interspacecraft range and bearing measurement for precise formation flying of multiple spacecraft. She went on to become the project element manager for formation flying on the Terrestrial Planet Finder project.
In 2003 she took on the additional duty of technical group supervisor, a line management position, for the Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) Sensors Group, where she was involved in next-generation sensor technologies required for future spaceflight missions. Her technical interest expanded to next-generation GN&C capabilities for increasingly autonomous space exploration. In 2010 she became manager of the Guidance and Control Section, where she emphasized the development of advanced GN&C technologies and their infusion in future missions for precision entry, descent, and landing on planetary surfaces; proximity operations about small bodies; multispacecraft precision formation flying; and precision pointing of spacecraft. In 2013 she became deputy manager of the Autonomous Systems Division responsible for spacecraft GN&C, power, avionics, flight software, and robotics. Since 2015 she has been the lead for Mars Helicopter technology demonstration development.
Ms. Aung earned her BS (1988) and MS (1990) in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her MS thesis was in the area of signal processing and communications.
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Mr. Allen Chen
Systems engineer in the Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems
and Advanced Technologies group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Allen Chen is a systems engineer in the Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems and Advanced Technologies group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is currently the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Lead for the Mars 2020 project. During his ten year tour of duty on the Mars Science Laboratory mission, he was the EDL operation lead, the EDL flight dynamics lead, co-led the joint science/engineering Mars atmosphere characterization team, was a member of the Flight System Systems Engineering team, and did play-by-play commentary for landing. He also worked on the Mars Exploration Rovers project, performing EDL reconstruction analysis and testing.
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Mr. Aaron Stehura
EDL Systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
As a member of the EDL and Flight System (FS) teams for the Mars 2020 rover (M2020), Mr. Aaron Stehura:
--executes trade studies to characterize current capability of landing system, assess sufficiency to meet M2020 requirements
--executes trade studies to determine EDL capability improvement for selected set of enabling technologies and associated flight system impacts
--assists in planning strategic direction of M2020 EDL team
--participates in grass-roots modeling infusion trial
SSS Systems Engineer (Aug 2012 – Present)
As a member of the Surface Sampling and Science (SSS) team for JPL's Curiosity rover, Mr. Aaron Stehura:
--plans, execute, and support Vehicle System Testbed (Curiosity's engineering model) shifts for drill flight software V&V, operational activity development, and anomaly investigation
--certifies new versions of flight software
--leads development of Organic Check Material and High Tilt drilling First Time Activities (FTAs)
--shepherds FTAs through operational readiness process: construct detailed plan, complete associated V&V, execute additional testing, identify risks and mitigations, specify constraints, conduct reviews at team and project level
--assists in coordination of the drill team: drive anomalies to closure, ensure staffing needs are met, plan and prioritize future team activities, assign tasks …
EDL Systems Engineer (Aug 2010 – Feb 2013)
As a member of the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) team for JPL's successful Mars Science Laboratory mission, Mr. Aaron Stehura played a major part in EDL Flight System V&V and operations. He planned, executed, and supported a variety of mission system testbed shifts, nominal and off-nominal operational readiness tests, as well as multiple test campaigns on MSL's flight hardware. Leading the effort to streamline EDL testing and data analysis, He was responsible for the development and deployment of a GUI-based test execution tool and an automated analysis framework that increased test throughput and repeatability dramatically. He owned a majority of the flight products necessary to configure the spacecraft for EDL and performed as an Activity Lead for the week prior to landing. As part of EDL Reconstruction efforts,he has played a part in gathering lessons learned, documenting the as-flown behavior of the spacecraft during landing, and followed up on a variety of observed phenomena.
--executes trade studies to characterize current capability of landing system, assess sufficiency to meet M2020 requirements
--executes trade studies to determine EDL capability improvement for selected set of enabling technologies and associated flight system impacts
--assists in planning strategic direction of M2020 EDL team
--participates in grass-roots modeling infusion trial
SSS Systems Engineer (Aug 2012 – Present)
As a member of the Surface Sampling and Science (SSS) team for JPL's Curiosity rover, Mr. Aaron Stehura:
--plans, execute, and support Vehicle System Testbed (Curiosity's engineering model) shifts for drill flight software V&V, operational activity development, and anomaly investigation
--certifies new versions of flight software
--leads development of Organic Check Material and High Tilt drilling First Time Activities (FTAs)
--shepherds FTAs through operational readiness process: construct detailed plan, complete associated V&V, execute additional testing, identify risks and mitigations, specify constraints, conduct reviews at team and project level
--assists in coordination of the drill team: drive anomalies to closure, ensure staffing needs are met, plan and prioritize future team activities, assign tasks …
EDL Systems Engineer (Aug 2010 – Feb 2013)
As a member of the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) team for JPL's successful Mars Science Laboratory mission, Mr. Aaron Stehura played a major part in EDL Flight System V&V and operations. He planned, executed, and supported a variety of mission system testbed shifts, nominal and off-nominal operational readiness tests, as well as multiple test campaigns on MSL's flight hardware. Leading the effort to streamline EDL testing and data analysis, He was responsible for the development and deployment of a GUI-based test execution tool and an automated analysis framework that increased test throughput and repeatability dramatically. He owned a majority of the flight products necessary to configure the spacecraft for EDL and performed as an Activity Lead for the week prior to landing. As part of EDL Reconstruction efforts,he has played a part in gathering lessons learned, documenting the as-flown behavior of the spacecraft during landing, and followed up on a variety of observed phenomena.
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Prof. Madhu Thangavelu
Faculty Member, USC / ISU
Madhu Thangavelu, MSc is space projects director of the Cal-Earth Institute and a fellow at NASA’s Institute of Advanced Concepts. He is an advisory board member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics with a focus on the design of complex space projects, including space stations and exploratory missions. He also teaches at the University of Southern California. Madhu’s educational background is in Architecture (Masters in Building Science, USC School of Architecture) and in Engineering (Bachelors in Science and Engineering, India). Versions of Madhu’s masters thesis (conceived during ISU ‘88 at MIT) entitled “MALEO: Modular Assembly in Low Earth Orbit. An Alternate Strategy for Lunar Base Establishment” were published in several journals worldwide. He is a creative consultant to the aerospace industry in the newly evolving field of space architectures complex concept synthesis. His concepts have been reviewed and appreciated by NASA, the National Research Council, the National Space Council, and his work has been presented before the National Academy of Sciences. Madhu is on the visiting faculty of the International Space University (ISU) and lectures to Space System Architecture students at ISU and at USC. He continues to present and publish original concepts in Space System Architectures and chairs related sessions at conferences. He is a coauthor of the book The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Colonization and is Vice Chairman for Education, Los Angeles Section of the American Institute Of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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Event Speaker:
Dr. Jeff H. Delaune
Robotics Technologist
Aerial Mobility
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Jeff Delaune is a robotics technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He researches and develops autonomous navigation and robotic systems for planetary exploration, with a focus on flying vehicles. Jeff was part of the navigation team for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight project. His interests include state estimation, sensor fusion, perception, computer vision and mission design. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE, France) in 2013, after a M.S. in Astronautics and Space Engineering from Cranfield University (United Kingdom),and a B.S./M.S. in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France).