session 5-C4.7
Joint Session on Advanced and Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems
- Description
This session, organised jointly between the Space Power and the Space Propulsion Symposium, includes papers addressing all aspects related to nuclear power and propulsion for space applications.
- Date
2017-09-29
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Co-Chair: Dr. Leopold Summerer, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands;
Rapporteur: Dr. Koji Tanaka, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 15 | withdrawn | Mr. Tim Tinsley | National Nuclear Labratory | United Kingdom | ||
2 | Utilization of Gas Core Nuclear Reactors for Interstellar Probes and for Interstellar Missions | 15 | confirmed | Dr. Ugur Guven | UN CSSTEAP | United States | |
3 | Design and Development of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems | 15 | withdrawn | Dr. Michael Houts | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | United States | |
4 | Thorium based nuclear energy generation to power Martian settlements | 15 | confirmed | Mr. SOURAV KARMAKAR | IIIT-H (research intern) | India | |
5 | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Pierre EVELLIN | International Space University (ISU) | France | ||
6 | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Donald Palac | NASA Glenn Research Center | United States | ||
7 | Update on 241Am production for use in Radioisotope Power Systems | 15 | withdrawn | Mr. Tim Tinsley | National Nuclear Labratory | United Kingdom | |
8 | Solid-state Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Magnesium Silicide | 15 | withdrawn | Mr. Azhar Ali | Texas A&M University | United States | |
9 | 15 | withdrawn | Prof. Sergey Finogenov | Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University, MAI) | Russian Federation | ||
10 | The SpaceDrive Project – Developing Revolutionary Propulsion at TU Dresden | 15 | confirmed | Prof. Martin Tajmar | TU Dresden | Germany | |
11 | Improved Performance Estimates for the Solar Wind Ion Focusing Thruster | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Thomas Gemmer | North Carolina State University | United States | |
12 | NASA’s Electric Sail Propulsion System Investigations over the Past Three Years | 15' | withdrawn | Mr. Bruce Wiegmann | NASA MSFC | United States |