Day at the Museum - May 11

Hello San Francisco Section,

The STEM Committee is organizing an amazing "Day at the Museum" at the new Exploratorium location.

When: Saturday May 11th, 2013

Where:

Exploratorium
15/17 Pier
San Francisco, CA 94111

Time: 10:00am
Cost: TBD


This is an event for families and for friends, bring students from K-12 to be part of this GREAT event!!!!

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO TO COME!!!!

Have an amazing week!

Magaly Gonzalez Sipperley
AIAA-SF STEM K-12 Director
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Webpages:  www.aiaa.org/ | http://www.aiaa-sf.org/

Deep Space Industries (TechTalk: 3/25)

AIAA SF/SVSC Small Payloads TechTalks
Monday, March 25, 2013; 6:30pm-8:00pm
Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, 
In mid-February, the Dojo moved to a new location at 599 Fairchild Dr., near Specialty's Cafe, Peet's Coffee, and the south gate of NASA Ames. 

 

Deep Space Industries 

James Luebke and Dr. Chris Cassell

Summary

There's been quite a lot of asteroid traffic near Earth lately, with one meteorite striking Russia on the day of another asteroid's close shave of our planet. Aside from detection and perhaps one day deflection, are there other opportunities for our space-faring species to interact with these celestial neighbors?

Deep Space Industries, announced merely two months ago, has already staked its claim as one of the most ambitious new space ventures. Founded by such leading minds as Rick Tumlinson, commercial space godfather, David Gump, formerly of Astrobotic, and John Lewis, scientist and author of the revolutionary Mining the Sky, Deep Space Industries envisions a business in which robotic scouts prospect for valuable asteroids, intermediate spacecraft return samples to Earth for analysis, and finally mining vehicles fly to the chosen asteroid to excavate and utilize the material on site. That final detail is perhaps the most significant aspect of their vision: by using a heretofore unrealized 3D printer, DSI will transform the mined elements into the components of space-native industry, allowing unique structures that would have been impossible to bring up from Earth in pieces. Join AIAA - SF on March 25 for a Tech Talk with founder and missions integration expert James Luebke. 

About the Speakers
James Luebke is a Founder and Vice President of Technical Marketing at Deep Space Industries. He brings his expertise as an aerospace engineer to DSI, contributing practical skills in mission planning and integration. Jim will be instrumental in overseeing the fundamentals of the operation, both in the hardware and software engineering side as well as in relations with the government. When Deep Space Industries dispatches its first Firefly scout to an asteroid, Jim will be one to thank for actualizing the concept. He is an alumni of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine.

Co-Founder Dr. Chris Cassell, expert on orbital mechanics and fellow missions planner, will join Jim after the presentation for Q&A.

Essays - thanks everyone

Thanks to everyone that helped promote our AIAA National Essay Contest for 7th and 8th graders!!! We have received the essays and we are starting the review process.

YPs at Cal Academy of Sciences - Mar 21

Are you an aerospace engineer age 35 or under? Would you like to join the San Francisco chapter of AIAA as a Young Professional (YP)? We organize many worthwhile activities around the Bay Area, including monthly Space talks, Tech talks, social activities such as this month's event posted below, and tours of local companies. If you are interested in joining please email me at ricetoldi@gmail.com.


Save the date! Join AIAA members for an evening of fun at the California Academy of Sciences Nightlife Event, March 21th. The theme of the evening is "Bold Local Nightlife", about our relationship to businesses around the Bay Area. This will be an opportunity for Young Professionals and anyone else so inclined to explore the beautiful new museum, socialize, and think about the universe!

* NightLife at the Academy: http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/

Museum Days and CVD

Good Afternoon!

The month of March means one thing for AIAA: Congressional Visit Day in Washington D.C.!

If you're in the South Bay, come to Hiller Aviation Museum on Saturday, March 9 to learn about AIAA's Key Issues 2013.

If you're in the East Bay, we will be at the Oakland Aviation Museum the next day, Sunday, March 10.

And remember that Congressional Visit Day is March 19-20.

What is Congressional Visit Day?: It is an annual event held in Washington D.C. that gives AIAA members the opportunity to engage with congress members to discuss industry issues. These issues are in the form of the Key Issues.

If you are interested in participating in any of these events please contact Jose Ramil Seneris at JRSeneris@gmail.com or pubpol@aiaa-sf.org.

MESA DAY Volunteering Opportunity!

Dear AIAA-SF Members,

I hope you are having a warm weekend in this beautiful city! This email is to notify you and ask for volunteers for the upcoming MESA DAY COMPETITION event that San Jose State University will be hosting next Saturday March 2nd, 2013. The  Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Silicon Valley Chapter has asked me to be a Lead Judge and to recruit 20-30 volunteers that will represent our organization AIAA-SF in this event. This is a very exciting opportunity not only for our organization to get involve with other organizations but also the fact that we are part of promoting STEM across any culture. This is an awesome opportunity for us of being exposed to interdisciplinary ideas related to Biomedical Design, we might learn something new, you never know! In addition, we are helping our neighbors, our communities, and encouraging our young generations to not only pursue higher education in these branches of STEM but to love it and to feel the passion for what you do in your career. We are all examples and its is time to give back!!

Additional Info:

As you know MESA DAY Competitions are led by our industry sponsored groups and organizations. 

This year we are counting on IBM to once again lead the following competitions: 

MESA NATIONAL ENGINEERING COMPETITION - 

PROSTHETIC ARM

Junior High and High School

I have attached further information to this email that you will need to read to participate. Here are some of the major keys:

When: Saturday March 2nd, 2013
Where: San Jose State University
Time: 6am -5pm
Attire: Wear blue top and black pants


When signing in as volunteer make sure you write "AIAA-SF" under other Organizations, follow this link to register

Please have all volunteers register via our online link:

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFh4dG94NHVKdTJPVm5XbXlnMU1TRVE6MQ


I hope you can join me in this event and look forward to see you next weekend. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, precollege@aiaa-sf.org

Thank you!!!

Mission Control Technologies (TechTalk: 2/25)

The next AIAA SF/SVSC TechTalk will discuss the Mission Control Technologies software package. NASA has released it as an open source package for use in spaceflight mission operations. Jay Trimble, the project lead at NASA Ames, will describe the package.

The announcement below is the taken from the AIAA SF sign-up page for the meeting.  The page has pointers to documentation as well as the location on GitHub to get the source code.  If you're coming, please use the "Let us know" button on the page.  It helps us plan for food. :-)

AIAA SF/SVSC Small Payloads TechTalks 
Monday, February 25, 2013; 6:30pm-8:00pm 
Hacker Dojo, Mountain View

Mission Control Technologies

Jay Trimble
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA

Summary

Mission Control Technologies (MCT) is an extensible architecture that was developed as a generic framework for developers and deployed with a specific set of modules as an application at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Traditional software is built as monolithic applications. The functionality of an application is determined during design and development. Once an application is developed and tested, change is difficult, leaving users with few options other than operational workarounds, if the software does not do what is needed. Recent software systems have evolved away from monolithic applications to collections of components and services. This model leaves organizations with a more effective way to customize and reuse software.

Jay Trimble from NASA Ames will speak about the development and use of the software at NASA and the potential use for educational and commercial cubesat and other small satellite missions.

About the Speaker

Jay Trimble leads the User Centered Technology (UCT) Group at NASA Ames. The UCT group uses agile user centered software development methods to design and build software platforms for NASA missions. Highlights include Mission Control Technologies user composable software, the MERBoard Touchscreen used for Mars Rover Operations, and software for planetary data archive and retrieval.

Prior to leading the UCT Group at NASA Ames, Jay initiated and led the Mars Exploration Rover Human Centered Computing Project, building a multi-disciplinary team to work with the Jet Propulsion Lab to bring process and technology improvements to Mars Rover Operations.

Prior to NASA Ames, he held technical management positions at UC Berkeley and JPL, and was a flight controller at NASA Johnson. He has an MS in Computer Science from USC, and BA in Geology from UC Berkeley.