DESIGN YOUR PLANETARY MISSION

ASTRO 292 Seminar  WED 4-5:30  544 Campbell

Instructors:   Greg Delory    &    Imke De Pater

Information: gdelory@ssl.berkeley.edu    (510) 643-1991

THIS SEMINAR SERIES HAS NOW CONCLUDED.

Latest News: Assembled proposal delayed while David Glaser perfects an ion-trajectory simulation - go Dave!

Archived Material, Fall 2002

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UPDATED: Course Plan, Revision B [PDF]

UPDATED: Course Plan, Revision A [PDF]

First Lecture    08/28/02

• Current course plan (initial rev 8/28/02) [PDF]

• Introductory presentation (G. Delory) [PDF]

• Useful introductory web links:

                NASA Solar System Exploration Home Page

                Past, Current, and Future Space Missions

                Discovery Program

                Mars Scout Program

                New Frontiers Program

                TRIANA Mission Homepage

2nd Lecture    09/04/02

• Conor Laver gave a great introduction to an asteroid mission concept, with lots of group discussion. Below are some links that may be useful if we pursue this mission concept further:

                NEAR Spacecraft Homepage

                DAWN Spacecraft Homepage

It looks like we can indeed build one of these missions within the Discovery or New Frontiers programs.

• Lecture materials presented  (shortened due to time constraints, but the entire presentation is below)

                Mission details for Mars Balloon and Titan Explorer (G. Delory) [PDF]

3rd Lecture    09/11/02

• Student presentations

Jupiter Atmosphere Mission  (Dave Glaser) [PDF]

Science objectives and rationale for Asteroid mission (H. Frey) [DOC]

Io Mission (Christina Lee) - [TXT]

 

4th Lecture    09/18/02

• Run-off elections were held for the final mission idea. An Asteroid mission was chosen!
• Divided into teams and roles. Two main groups: science and implementation
• Group discussions were held with each team.
  • Science team members were assigned instruments and investigations
  • Implementation team assigned engineering approaches to each member: power, propulsion, spacecraft design, orbit, lander/penetrator concepts...

5th Lecture    09/25/02

• Intro to Asteroid and Meteorite science (Imke de Pater)
• Quick (<5 min) student updates on progress thus far: science and implementation strategies

Shuleen Martin's Asteroid Science Presentation

• Wrap up: additional information and resources (G. Delory).

Online References:

Implementation Team

Science Team

6th Lecture    10/02/02

• Meet in 544 Campbell as usual - quick update and announcements, questions
• Split into Science and Implementation teams - science team will probably move to 501 Campbell (TBD)
• 5:10pm - Re-convene entire class in 544 Campbell - General discussion about current status of mission

7th Lecture    10/09/02

• Lecture - the NEAR spacecraft mission, with an emphasis on the science instrument payload and introduction to orbit transfers (G. Delory) [PDF]

• General discussion about current status of mission - science and implementation sides.

8th Lecture    10/16/02

• Science and Implementation team splinter sessions 

9th Lecture    10/23/02

• Guest speaker: Richard Reinert, from Ball Aerospace, will talk about the NEOX mission concept

10th Lecture    10/30/02

• Science and Implementation team splinter sessions (science session slides: [PDF])

11th Lecture   11/06/02

• Lecture: The NASA proposal process and the timeline for mission implementation [PDF]
• Writing assignments given to individual team members [PDF]

NO LECTURE ON 11/13/02 - Write up your proposal sections!

12th Lecture  11/20/02

• Review proposal writeup status, and discuss revisions, changes

13th Lecture  11/27/02

• Discuss final revisions on Science and Implementation sections.
• Final writeups on assigned topics due Dec 6th

END OF SEMINAR - No Class on December 6th