Space Access Conference 2012

Image Credit: Space Access Society The Space Access Society hosts its annual conference this week at the Grace Inn, 10831 South 51st Street, Phoenix, AZ. The schedule for the conference is: Thursday April 12 9 am – Henry Vanderbilt, your SA’12 Conference Manager, with a brief welcome 9:05 – Henry Spencer, “Beyond Chemical Rockets: Overview and Near-Term Options” 9:55 – Keith Henson, “$100 a kg to GEO with Beamed Energy Propulsion” 10:15 – Tethers Unlimited, Gerry Nordley 10:25 – break 11 am – Liftport, Frank Smith 11:20 – John Schilling, “Halfway to Anywhere, Part II: Groundwork For Going Beyond LEO” 11:50 – Rick Maschek, Sugar Shot To Space 12:10 – Commercial Spaceflight Federation, Alex Saltman, Executive Director 12:25 – break for lunch 2 pm – David Hoerr, “The Rocket Company, 10 Years After” 2:20 – Mojave Air & Space Port 2:40 – Bruce Pittman, NASA Ames, “Barriers And Opportunities For Reusable Launch Vehicles” 3 pm – Space Studies Institute, Gary Hudson, President (do not miss – we can say no more) 3:30 – break 4:05 – Dallas Bienhoff, “Payload Requirements For A Low Cost Reusable Launch Vehicle” 4:35 – Team Phoenicia, Will Baird 5:05 – Spaceworthy, Ed De Reyes, “Roadblocks To Licensing and Permitting: We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us” 5:25 – National Space Society, Paul Damphousse, Executive Director 5:40 – Stratofox Aerospace Tracking & Recovery Team, Ian Kluft 6 pm – break for dinner 8 pm – Scott Tibbitts, eSpace, “From the Hardware Store to Pluto: Adventures in Space Entrepreneurship” 8:30 – Altius Space Machines, Jon Goff 9 pm – Garvey Space, John Garvey 9:30 – Rocketplane Global, Chuck Lauer 9:50 – Matt Cannella, “HySoR Hybrid Sounding Rocket” 10:05 – end of day’s schedule. Begin celebrating Yuri’s Night, sponsored by Phoenix Chapters of AIAA and NSS! (Don’t overdo it, there are two full days still ahead.) Friday April 13th 9 am – XCOR Aerospace, Mark Street 9:45 – United Launch Alliance, Frank Zegler 10:30 – break 11:05 – Panel: World Space Programs & Prospects – Jeff Foust, Clark Lindsey, Doug Messier, Dave Salt 11:50 – Max Vozoff, mv2space 12:20 – Ben Brockert, “Encouraging STEM Education In The US” 12:30 pm – break for lunch 2 pm – NASA OCT, Dr. Laguduva Kubendran 2:45 – Lasermotive, Jordin Kare 3 pm – Jordin Kare on Recent Laser Propulsion Work 3:30 – break 4:05 – Orbital Outfitters, Jeff Feige 4:35 – Masten Space, Dave Masten 5:20 – Henry Spencer, “Lessons From Smallsats for Small Launchers” 5:45 – Rick Tumlinson, on the EarthLight Institute 5:55 – break for dinner 8 pm – Phil Chapman, “Reviving Human Spaceflight” 8:20 – Panel: Newspace Lessons Learned – Gary Hudson, Henry Spencer, Henry Vanderbilt 9 pm – Armadillo Aerospace, Ben Brockert 9:30 – JP Aerospace, John Powell 10 pm – end of day’s schedule. Don’t party too late – there’s still another whole day ahead! Saturday April 14th 9 am – FAA AST, Mike Kelly, Chief Engineer 9:50 – Rand Simberg on a Space Property Rights initiative 10:10 – Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Sara Meschberger 10:20 – break 10:55 – Frontier Astronautics, Timothy Bendel 11:25 – Speedup, Robert Steinke 11:40 – Osa Fitch, “The Rocket Test Company: 2012 Update” 11:55 – Percy Luney, VP Space Florida, “An Informal Discussion Of Possible NanoSat Launch Challenge Parameters” 12:25 – break for lunch 2 pm – Michael Clive, “The Mojave Makers Hackerspace” 2:15 – Unreasonable Rocket, Paul Breed 2:45 – Tim Pickens, Rocket City Space Pioneers GLXP Project 3:10 – Ed Wright of Citizens In Space, on “Citizen Science: ‘Pump Priming’ For Suborbital” 3:25 – break 4 pm – Jim Muncy, PoliSpace 4:40 – Tim Pickens with a few words on “DIY Space Access: Modern Communications, the ‘Maker’ network, and the Space Community” (Panel to Follow, Panelists TBA) 5:25 – Space Frontier Foundation, Ryan McLinko 5:40 – Panel: Policy Issues For The Coming Year – Phil Chapman, Jim Muncy, Rand Simberg, Henry Vanderbilt 6:20 – end of Space Access sessions for another year. See you in the bar!