[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 29, Number 34

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 29, Number 34
Oct.01,2019

Announcement submission website:
https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/messenger_form/

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Table of Contents

1. 2019 Mini-GEM Meeting Announcement

2. Access To Space Workshop

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1. 2019 Mini-GEM Meeting Announcement
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From: Paul Cassak (Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu)

On behalf of the Meeting Organizers (Chia-Lin Huang, Chris Mouikis, and Umbe Cantu), I’m happy to report that GEM will be holding its annual Mini-GEM workshop on Sunday, December 8th, 2019 at the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Golden Gateway at 1500 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco, California. There is no registration fee. The main meeting runs from noon until 5pm, with focus group proposals and a Steering Committee meeting following the main meeting. Other activities can be booked for earlier than noon. The registration and schedule information will be forthcoming at the gemworkshop.org website. Please pass this along to any students that may not be on the GEM Messenger email list. See you in San Francisco!


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2. Access To Space Workshop
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From: George Ho (George.Ho at jhuapl.edu)

Access2Space 
This Workshop is sponsored by the NASA Science Mission Directorate to gauge and solicit community inputs on the best way to create, fully populate, and manage a pipeline of secondary payloads to support the NASA SMD policy of adding a secondary payload carrier for all SMD missions with excess-mass lift capacity.

The goals of this Workshop are to provide the following info to decision makers:

• Identify shortfalls in current methodologies
• Understanding of new strategies to maximize available secondary payloads to populate the Rideshare pipeline
• Definition of instrument/sensor use cases that maximize use of excess-mass lift capacity
• Quantifying the potential increase of the science return on investment
• Understanding of technology areas requiring new investment to use the excess-mass lift capacity.

The Workshop will be two and a half days and all sessions will be held at the Kossiakoff Center at the JHUAPL Laurel, Maryland campus. We will lead off the workshop with keynote speakers then with the afternoon devoted to information from Commercial launch, spacecraft, SmallSat and lander providers. The second day will include splinter and working group sessions organized according to science disciplines and/or regions of operation. In each splinter session, the group will receive community presentations of possible applications and discuss the relevant topics listed above. On the final day, the results of these activities will be discussed and summarized in order to provide recommendations for NASA SMD (in the form of conference proceedings).

Logistics information can be found on the above website. This is an excellent opportunity to provide NASA decision makers with valuable feedback in order to take full advantage of the novel opportunities provided by exciting new access to space capabilities. Community members may submit abstracts for very short presentations related to possible applications and commercial providers may submit poster abstracts to inform the community of opportunities. We encourage wide community participation and look forward to an exciting and productive workshop.

Where:
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Laurel, Maryland, 20723, USA
Contact: George Ho, JHUAPL, Access2Space at jhuapl.edu
Website: https://civspace.jhuapl.edu/News-and-Events/events/Access2Space/


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