| 7:00 am | Registration (every morning) |
| 8:00 am | Welcome - Conference General Chair Ed Packard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 8:05 am | Welcome - IEST Gregg A. Mosely, IEST Communications Vice President IEST Vice-President |
| 8:10 am | Keynote Speaker Dr. Robert Gold, Chief Technologist The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 8:50 am | Welcome - Technical Program Chair Manfred Diehl, Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
| SESSION 1 - THERMAL VACUUM TESTING Chair: Dave Feick - Northrop Grumman ESSS Co-Chair: Larry Oberlander - Northrop Grumman SSES |
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| 8:55 am | Methods of Helium Injection and Removal for Heat Transfer Augmentation Jeffrey Kegley - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 9:20 am | The ESA Large Space Simulator Mechanical Ground Support Equipment for Spacecraft
Testing Dirk Hagelschuer - European Space Agency/ESTEC |
| 9:45 am | Temperature Stability and Control Requirements For Thermal Vacuum/Thermal
Balance Testing of the Aquarius Radiometer Chris Johnson - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 10:10 am | ** Coffee Break - Visit Vendor Booths ** |
| 10:35 am | The Liquid Nitrogen System for Chamber A Jonathan Homan - NASA Johnson Space Center |
| 11:00 am | Return to Mercury: A Comparison of Solar Simulation and Flight Data for the
MESSENGER Spacecraft Carl J. Ercol - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 11:25 am | Floating Pressure Conversion And Equipment Upgrades Of Two 3.5kw, 20k, Helium Refrigerators Robert Linza - NASA Johnson Space Center |
11:50 am Lunch in Mainsail Expo Hall
Luncheon Speaker - Phil Sabelhaus
| SESSION 1 - THERMAL VACUUM TESTING
(continued) |
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| 1:10 pm | Affect Of Air Leakage Into A Thermal-Vacuum Chamber On Helium Refrigeration Heat Load Carl Reis - NASA Johnson Space Center |
| SESSION 2 - CONTAMINATION Chair: Randy Hedgeland - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Co-Chair: Glenn Rosecrans - Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. |
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| 1:40 pm | Special ISO Class 6 Cleanroom for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Project Richard Matthews - Filtration Technology, Inc. |
| 2:10 pm | A State-of-the-Art Contamination Effects Research and Test Facility Keith R. Olson - The Aerospace Corporation |
| 2:35 pm | Martian Dust Simulator Monica Zuray -NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 3:00 pm | ** Coffee Break - Visit Vendor Booths ** |
| 3:25 pm | Control of Molecular and Particulate Contamination on Surfaces Using Polymers
Strip Coatings James P. Hamilton - Photonic Cleaning Technologies |
| 3:50 pm | Extra Terrestrial Environmental Chamber Design Dave Hughes -NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 4:15 pm | Contamination Sources Effects Analysis (CSEA) - A Tool to Balance Cost/Schedule
while Managing Facility Availability Margaret Wilcox - ITT Corporation |
| 4:40 pm | SES and Acoustics at GSFC Patrick Hogue - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
6:00 to 7:30 PM - Welcome Reception in Mainsail
Wednesday, OCTOBER 22, 2008
| 7:00 am | Registration (every morning) |
| 8:00 am | Welcome - Conference General Chair Ed Packard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 8:05 am | Welcome - Technical Program Chair Manfred Diehl, Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
| SESSION 3 - STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS TESTING Chair: Raj Singhal - Canadian Space Agency Co-Chair: Ken Turner - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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| 8:10 am | HST Super Light Weight Interchangeable Carrier (SLIC) Static Test William V. Chambers - ANALEX ATAC Space Systems |
| 8:35 am | Virtual Shaker Testing: Simulation Technology Improves Vibration Test Performance Jan Debille - LMS Aerospace |
| 9:00 am | Estimating Shock Spectra: Extensions Beyond GEVS Gordon L. Maahs - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 9:25 am | ** Coffee Break - Visit Vendor Booths ** |
| 9:45 am | Structural Dynamic Analysis of a Spacecraft Multi-DOF Shaker Table Carl Pray - ATA Engineering, Inc. |
| 10:10 am | Direct Field Acoustic Testing Paul Larkin - ARES Corporation |
| SESSION 4 - NEW CAPABILITIES AND FACILITIES Chair: Brian Langmyer - Orbital Sciences Corporation Co-Chair: Gary Rico - General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems |
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| 10:35 am | Manufacture of Cryoshroud Surfaces for Space Simulation Chambers Gary S. Ash Ph.D - DynaVac Center |
| 11:05 am | The Large Optical Test and Integration Site (LOTIS) Alan Merrick - Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company |
11:30 am - LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
| 12:50 pm | Thermal Vacuum Control Systems Options For Test Facilities John Marchetti - XL Technology Systems, Inc. |
| 1:20 pm | Extremely High Vacuum Chamber for Low Outgassing Processing at NASA Goddard Andrew Webb - The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 1:45 pm | Precision Cleaning - Path to Premier Scott E. Mackler - ITT Corporation, Space Systems Division |
| 2:10 pm | ** Coffee Break - Visit Vendor Booths ** |
| 2:25 pm | The New Anechoic Shielded Chambers Designed for Space and Commercial
Applications at LIT Benjamim da Silva M. C. Galvão - Laboratório de Integração e Testes in Brazil |
| 2:50 pm | Extraction of Thermal Performance Values from Samples In the Lunar Dust
Adhesion Bell Jar James R. Gaier - NASA Glenn Research Center |
3:45 PM - Boarding Bus to Baltimore and Dinner Cruise
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Thursday, OCTOBER 23, 2008
| 7:00 am | Registration (every morning) |
| 8:00 am | Welcome - Conference General Chair Ed Packard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 8:05 am | Keynote Speaker Bill Breeden - Director of the Engineering Laboratories Lockheed Martin Aeronautics |
| 8:45 am | Welcome - Technical Program Chair Manfred Diehl, Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
| SESSION 5 - DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSES Chair: Bill Raynor - NRL Co-Chair: Jim Haughton -Kinetic Research Corporation |
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| 8:50 am | Thermal (Silicon Diode) Data Acquisition System Jeffrey Kegley - Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 9:15 am | Aquarius's Instrument Science Data System (ISDS) Automated to Acquire, Process,
Trend Data and Produce Radiometric System Assessment Reports Lakesha Bates - NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 9:40 am | Exhaustive Thresholds and Persistence Checkpoints Charles Easton, PhD - The Boeing Company |
| 10:05 am | ** Coffee Break - Visit Vendor Booths ** |
| 10:25 am | Reconfigurable HIL Testing of Earth Satellites H. A. Rumann - Bastion Technologies |
| 10:50 am | FPGA Control System for the Automated Test of Microshutters Eric Lyness - Mink Hollow Systems |
| SESSION 6 - SIMULATIONS AND SPECIAL TOPICS Chair: Elie Choueiry - Canadian Space Agency Co-Chair: Greg Gosian - ITT Space Systems Division |
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| 11:15 am | Ongoing Capabilities and Developments of Re-entry Plasma Ground Tests
at EADS-ASTRIUM Pierre Jullien - European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company |
11:45 am - LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
| SESSION 6 - SIMULATIONS AND SPECIAL TOPICS (continued) |
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| 1:00 pm | Operationally Responsive Space Standard Bus Battery Thermal Balance Testing and Heat Dissipation Analysis Mike Marley- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 1:30 pm | "Galileo - The Serial-Production AIT Challenge" Otto Brunner - ESA |
| 1:55 pm | The Space Systems Environmental Test Facility Database (SSETFD), Website Development Status James M Snyder - The Aerospace Corporation |
| 2:20 pm | ** Coffee Break ** |
| 2:35 pm | Simulated Reentry Heating by Torching Gale A. Harvey - NASA Langley Research Center |
| 3:00 pm | Micro-Vibration Measurements on Thermally Loaded Multi-Layer Insulation
Samples in Vacuum Georg Deutsch - IABG mbH |
| 3:25 pm | High Temperature Life Testing of 80Ni-20Cr Wire in a Simulated Mars Atmosphere for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite Gas Processing System (GPS) Carbon Dioxide Scrubber Christopher G. Hoffman - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. |
| 3:50 pm | The Planning and Implementation of Test Facility Improvements Larry Oberlander - Northrop Grumman SSES |
| 4:15 pm | Development of a Silicon Carbide Molecular Beam Nozzle for Simulating Planetary Flybys and Low-Earth Orbit Edward L. Patrick - Southwest Research Institute |
| 4:40 pm | Farewell - Conference General Chair Ed Packard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
4:45 pm - Completion of Technical Program