Tag: Conference
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AIAA Space Forum paper on Pluto mission is live
Sadly, the AIAA Space Forum in Orlando, FL was canceled due to hurricane Irma. So, we didn’t get to present our paper on our DFD mission to Pluto. AIAA has, however, published all the forum papers and is providing free access for a few months in lieu of the actual conference. This means anyone can…
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PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference
Princeton Satellite Systems had a booth at the PPPL’s Young Women’s Conference at Princeton University. Stephanie Thomas and Gary Pajer talked with students about our work in aerospace and energy. Our booth featured a CubeSat frame designed by our mechanical engineers, a simulation of a lunar lander which could be controlled via a joystick, a…
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Stofiel Aerospace and Princeton Satellite Systems at CES
Stofiel Aerospace LLC had a display at the Consumer Electronics Show. They invited Princeton Satellite Systems to display its products on their table. The booth is shown in the following picture. You can see Stofiel’s rockets. Here is a closeup showing our 3U CubeSat with a camera mounted in one of the bays. Members of…
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2014 International Astronautical Congress
From the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, 1968. Dr. Heywood Floyd is talking with Elena, a colleague from Russia: Elena, “Well, I hope that you and your wife can come to the I.A.C conference in June.” Floyd, “We’re trying to get there. I hope we can.” I was able to attend the IAC conference in…
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DFD at the IEPC
Explosions. Orbits. Stuff hurtling through space at high speed. At the George Washington University campus last week, eyes young and old were trained on the screen, witnessing an amazing story of what can happen in space. And no, it was not “Gravity”. Nothing against Ms. Bullock or Mr. Clooney, but the 33rd International Electric Propulsion…
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SmallSat Conference in the Cache Valley!
PSS attended the Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah, Aug 12-15. The conference site, on the campus of Utah State University, couldn’t have been more beautiful! View from the SmallSat venue, Logan Utah The technical program, conference organization, and venue were all outstanding! I bumped into several PSS MATLAB Toolbox customers and representatives from companies…
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Direct Fusion Drive to Mars – A FISO Talk
The Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group invited us to give a talk in their weekly seminar track. On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, we gave a presentation entitled “Direct Fusion Drive for Fast Mars Missions with the Orion Spacecraft”. You can find the slides we presented in their online archive here. We first discussed the need…
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Small Satellite Conference
Princeton Satellite Systems will be attending the Small Satellites Conference in Logan, Utah next week, Aug 12th – 15th! We will be presenting our Asteroid Prospector mission concept on Tuesday Aug 13th at 5:30 pm in Session VI: Strength in Numbers We are looking forward to seeing you there!