Technical programme

C2.1. Space Structures I - Development and Verification (Space Vehicles and Components)

The following topics will be included: Analysis versus test results for spacecraft, launch vehicles and their components (e.g. pressurized structures, tanks, load introductions, primary structures, fluidic equipment, control surfaces); examination of both on-ground and in-orbit testing, launch dynamic environments as related to structural design, development and verification, such as sine, random and acoustic vibration and lessons learned.

C2.2. Space Structures II - Development and Verification (Deployable and Dimensionally Stable Structures)

The following topics will be included: Analysis versus test results for deployable and /or dimensionally stable structures (e.g. reflectors, telescopes, antennas); examination of both on-ground and in-orbit testing, thermal distortion and shape control, structural design, development and verification; lessons learned.

C2.3. Space Structures - Dynamics and Microdynamics

Topics included in this session are: Dynamics analysis and testing, modal identification, landing and impact dynamics, pyroshock, test facilities, vibration suppression techniques, damping, micro-dynamics, in-orbit dynamic environment, wave structural propagation, excitation sources and in-orbit dynamic testing.

C2.4. New Materials and Structural Concepts

Topics of discussion in this session will be: advanced materials and structural concepts applied in expendable and future reusable transportation systems and space vehicles. Of main interests are high temperature and cryogenic materials, nano-materials, composites, and ceramics including their structural application.

C2.5. Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures

The focus of the session will be on application of smart materials to spacecraft and launch vehicle systems, novel sensor and actuator concepts and new concepts for multi- functional and intelligent structural systems. Also included in the session will be new control methods for vibration suppression and shape control using adaptive structures as well as comparisons of predicted performance with data from ground and in-orbit testing.

C2.6. Space Environmental Effects and Spacecraft Protection

In this session space environment effects will be covered. For example, the effects of radiation, atomic oxygen, spacecraft charging, thermal cycling, dissociation, meteoroids, space debris and vacuum on space systems, microelectronics, materials and structures will be discussed. Protective and shielding technologies, including debris impact simulation, testing and susceptibility of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) micro-electronics to space radiation will be presented.

C2.7. Space Vehicles – Mechanical/Thermal/Fluidic Systems

Discussed in this session are novel technical concepts for mechanical/thermal subsystems of launchers, manned and unmanned spacecraft, re-entry vehicles and small satellites. Also included in this session will be cost efficiency and reliability, material selection, new theoretical approaches, low cost manufacturing and test verification. Advanced subsystems and design for future exploration missions will also be included.

C2.8. Specialized Technologies, including Nanotechnology

Specialized material and structures technologies are explored in a large variety of space applications both to enable advanced exploration or science/observation mission scenarios and to perform test verifications relying on utmost miniaturization of devices or highest capabilities in structural, thermal, electrical, electro-mechanical/optical performances offered by the progress in Nanotechnology. Examples are the exceptional performances at nano-scale in strength, electrical, thermal conduction of Carbon nanotubes which are experiencing first applications at macro-scale such as nano-composite structures, high efficiency energy storage wheels, MEMS and MOEMS devices. Molecular nanotechnology and advances in manipulation at nano-scale offer the road to molecular machines, ultra-compact sensors for science applications and mass storage devices. The Session encourages presentations of specialized technologies, in particular of nano-material related techniques and their application in devices offering unprecedented performances for space applications.

C2.I. Interactive Session on Materials and Structures