The AIAA DEFENSE Forum Executive Steering Committee is pleased to provide this unclassified discussion that will delve into the effects of COVID-19 on the aerospace and defense community. Speakers from government, industry and academia will take an enterprise view and consider lessons learned from all angles, including productivity, supply chain, and workforce. Ample time will be included for questions from the audience, and findings and notes will be captured and shared with the industry.
Event Tag: webinar
Briefing: Commercial Development in Low Earth Orbit (Member Exclusive Webinar)
AIAA hosted a member exclusive webinar on 20 April featuring Doug Loverro, NASA Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro discussed commercial development in low Earth orbit and offer his insights about the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request, NASA’s exploration plans, and how the agency is going to achieve its goal of returning American astronauts to the moon by 2024.
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Microgravity and Space Processes TC Webinar: Analog Mission to Mars – HERA C7M2 (AIAA Member Exclusive)
Analog Mission to Mars (HERA C7M2)
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Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Jason Lee, University of Connecticut
Analog Mission to Mars (HERA C7M2) Description: Jason Lee participated in NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) Campaign 7 Mission 2. Along with 3 other crew members he spent 45 days in the habitat. The purpose of the analog was to simulate a mission to mars, conducting experiments to study the effects of isolation, confinement in a small space, and simulated remote conditions. Throughout the mission, the crew was responsible for carrying out various individual and team based operations.
Dr. Lee will discuss his experience working with the crew and mission control, as well as the observed effects of isolation and communication delays.
Building a Career on Tackling the Challenges of Hypersonic Flight (Member Exclusive Webinar)
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Kevin Bowcutt, principal senior technical fellow and chief scientist of hypersonics at The Boeing Company.
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Join us as we discuss some of the toughest challenges of hypersonic flight, along with efforts by the presenter and his colleagues to tackle these challenges, advance the state of the art of hypersonics, and help enable current hypersonic system capabilities. Despite progress made, many challenges remain before hypersonic flight becomes routine and the full potential of hypersonics is realized, including capabilities such as global travel, reusable vehicles for defense applications, and truly routine and affordable access to space. Further advancement is needed in challenging research domains such as high-temperature materials and viable structures affordably built from those materials; design accounting for the strong interaction of disciplines, such as fluid dynamics, propulsion, thermal, structure, and control; and revolutionary increases in the fidelity and speed of multidisciplinary modeling and simulation required to support advanced vehicle design. These tough challenges provide excellent opportunities for engineers and scientists to advance their careers in hypersonics by helping to develop solutions to the challenges.
AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series: On-Orbit Mission Enhancement and Logistics
This webinar is hosted by AIAA, is presented by Lockheed Martin, and is open to all members of the AIAA and ASCEND communities.
To ensure mission success, as well as the longevity, flexibility, and value of on-orbit space assets, the space industry is developing a variety of on-orbit satellite servicing capabilities for commercial use and for onboarding to government programs. This event will feature some of the industry leaders who are driving on-orbit satellite servicing capabilities to tell the story of how we are accelerating these advancements to benefit the space industry.
A standardized docking port enables successful on-orbit servicing missions by accommodating a wide-range of Satellite Augmentation Vehicles (SAVs). The port enables SAVs to attach to a host vehicle to provide an expansive selection of mission augmentation including mission enhancements, system upgrades, failure recovery, and alternative communication paths. Lockheed Martin Space has released the first open-source Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) standard and is rapidly expanding its family of high-technology readiness level (TRL) docking ports. Investments in mission augmentation and on-orbit satellite servicing will bring value to the bustling space economy, enhance cooperative architectures, and extend mission longevity.
Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter, A Zoom Presentation by Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
This presentation will describe the technical and program challenges involved in developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and show how an innovative idea became an international program with engineers from half a dozen countries developing a single replacement aircraft for multiple aircraft types. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was developed to meet the multirole fighter requirements of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and our allies. The Air Force variant is a supersonic, single engine stealth fighter. The Navy variant has a larger wing and more robust structure in order to operate from aircraft carriers, while the Marine Corps variant incorporates an innovative propulsion system that can be switched from a turbofan cycle to a turbo shaft cycle for vertical takeoff and landing. This propulsion system enabled the X-35 to become the first aircraft in history to fly at supersonic speeds, hover, and land vertically. The development team won the Collier Trophy, which recognizes “the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America” each year, for this accomplishment.
This presentation will be on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, from 1200–1300 hrs PST, via Zoom.
Aerospace Perspectives Series: Space 2050—Our Future Shaped by Today’s Space Technology Advances
This webinar is hosted by AIAA, is presented by Lockheed Martin, and is open to all members of the AIAA and ASCEND communities.
What will the future of space look like in 2050? What technologies will be required to enable future capabilities in space, and how close are we to creating them? The leaders of Lockheed Martin’s space innovation labs will share a vision for the future of space, and showcase key technologies being developing to expand space missions and humanity beyond our home world.
This webinar invites discussion about the future of space in five areas: a “smart” world enabled by ubiquitous communications, extraplanetary operations, space logistics, mission operations command utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, and space defense to strengthen 21st century security. These areas dive deeper into dynamic mission environments and the emerging technological advancements necessary to operate productively and safely.
HyTASP Technical Committee Hypersonics Webinar (AIAA Member Exclusive)
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Andrew Neely, Associate Dean for Research Engagement, UNSW Canberra.
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The Impact of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions on Hypersonic Vehicle Performance.
Aerothermodynamic heating is an unavoidable consequence of high-speed flight. This presents design challenges for hypersonic vehicles that must be understood and addressed. Even at moderate hypersonic Mach numbers, elevated structural temperatures can distort the airframe of a vehicle, its control surfaces, and propulsion flow paths, degrading performance and reducing life. Multifidelity simulation approaches must be optimized for an appropriate balance between efficiency and accuracy, depending upon their application in the design cycle. Detailed validation cases are required to build confidence in these approaches but these data sets, whether from ground-based or flight experiments continue to be limited. This webinar will explore these challenges and discuss recent experimental approaches developed at UNSW Canberra to build confidence in numerical design tools.
Journal Peer Reviewer 101
Are you looking to get more involved with AIAA and add to your resume? Opportunities are available to peer review journal articles. AIAA’s journals are the best resource for staying current on the latest aerospace research and development. Reporting on the most important aerospace advances, AIAA’s eight active technical journals feature original research papers spanning the spectrum of aerospace science and technology.
In this online webinar learn more about the peer-review process for AIAA journals from Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors. Discover how you can help to evaluate the technical content, importance to the field, style and clarity, and completeness of manuscripts — all while advancing the industry and your own career.
We can’t wait to meet you! To get the most out of your session we have a homework assignment. Don’t worry, it only takes a few minutes. Please:
1. Familiarize yourself with our journals by visiting: Journal Scopes and Content | AIAA
2. Consider which journal(s) interest you and intersect with your areas of expertise.
3. Be ready to create an account in ScholarOne Manuscripts (manuscriptcentral.com) if you don’t already have one.
To express interest in becoming a reviewer, please fill out our survey .
AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series: Space Debris Mitigation and Management
This webinar is hosted by AIAA, is presented by The MITRE Corporation, and is open to all members of the AIAA and ASCEND communities.
The MITRE Corporation has assembled a diverse panel of high-profile government and industry leaders for a compelling discussion on the challenges associated with space debris and what can be done to improve the space operating environment and make space transportation safer for current and future travelers. A variety of future end states will be discussed and debated, and actionable takeaways will be provided to improve our off-world ecosystem.