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ASCEND Rewind @ AVIATION: FAA Commercial Space Transportation
AIAA’s newest event is building a fast-growing community that propels the global conversation about space commerce, exploration, and new discovery. Before ASCEND kicks off in November 2021, get a taste of the type of cross-cutting content that is part of this event. Join ASCEND Executive Producer, Rob Meyerson, for a special play-back of the 2020 session “FAA Commercial Space Transportation: Why Public Safety Enables An Off-World Future” featuring Wayne Monteith, the FAA’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation who shared his views on safety, regulatory reform, and how they enable an off-world future.
First Man Screening Party and Book Signing with James Hansen
Come meet the Author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong! James Hansen will be hosting a Q&A with the audience prior to introducing the movie First Man.
UNITE CubeSat: From Inception to Early Orbital Operations
The University of Southern Indiana UNITE CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station on January 31, 2019. It phoned home 55 minutes later thru the Globalstar satellite network and has been transmitting data every day since. UNITE stands for Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer. The missions of UNITE are to (1) calculate plasma properties in the lower ionosphere using a Langmuir Plasma Probe, (2) measure the CubeSat’s skin and interior temperatures to compare with a student-developed thermal model, and (3) carefully track the orbital decay near re-entry with the intent of updating drag models in that regime. Key events and lessons learned will be summarized from inception of the project in 2016 thru the first six months of orbital operations in 2019.
AIAA Public Policy Tweetup
Spreading the word about AIAA public policy activities and Congressional Visits Day on social media.