1. Inter-Agency Automated Rendezvous & Capture Working Group 5/22-23/2002 Naval Research Laboratory Tri X. Nguyen 281-483-0468

2. 2 Background On March 8, 2002, it was agreed to form the Inter- Agency AR&C Working Group and have a face-to- face meeting. –Proactive at collaboration / reuse, rather than reactive –Many positive comments about formulation of the AR&C inter-agency (DOD/NASA) working group. –The first AR&C interagency working group meeting on May 22 and 23, 2002 at NRL, Washington DC

3. 3 Goals of the First AR&C Inter-Agency (NASA/DOD) Working Group Meeting Share information about programs and projects at various government sites which have potential value to others interested in automated rendezvous and capture / docking Face-to-face interaction –Get to know each other Finalize the AR&C Inter-Agency Working Group Charter

4. 4 A LIST OF TENTATIVE ATTENDEES AFRL –Russell Partch –Harrold Vern Baker –Seamus Tuohy - Draper ARC –Robert Mah –Chris Lages Army SMDC –Tom Ramrath - FastMetrix DARPA –MAJ James Shoemaker –Melissa Wright –Gordon Roesler GSFC –Jesse Leitner –Karen Richon –Son Truong JPL –Robert Bailey –Richard Kornfeld JSC – Tri Nguyen- Terry Hill – Don Pearson- Al DuPont – L (Jack) Lew- Janet Bell – Bob Stevenson- James Lewis –C (Scott) Merkle- Jim Lamoreux MSFC – Chris Crumbly- Leslie Murp – Chris Calfee- Mark Krome – James Lomas- Meg Stroud – Fred Roe- Keith Higginbotham – Richard Howard- Dexter Waldrep – Thomas Bryan- Jaime Fernandez NRL – Glenn Creamer – Charmaine Gilbreath – Frank Pipitone –- ……… SNL (Sandia Nation Laboratory) – Colin Smithpeter – Robert Nellums

5. 5 First Day Agenda (May 22, 2002) 0815Badging at NRL facilityAll 0900Welcome & introductions NRL/G. Creamer (Host) JSC/T. Nguyen (Co-chair) DARPA/MAJ J Shoemaker (Co-chair) 0915Overview of Charter/purpose of Working GroupJSC/T. Nguyen AR&C Program Initiatives: Overview of current development activity. 5-15 pages showing mission objectives, spacecraft systems, and AR&C implementations (sensors, software, operations technique). 0930Orbital ExpressDARPA/Major J. Shoemaker 1030Mars Sample Return and ST6 Technology MissionJPL/ R. Bailey & R. Kornfeld 1130SLI TA-9 AR&C Technology PlanningJSC/D. Pearson 1200Lunch 1245XSS-11AFRL/R. Partch 1345NRL activities (STARS, optical image recognition )NRL/G. Creamer 1445Space Shuttle Rendezvous Upgrades & SRI Tech.JSC/J. Lamoreux &SNL/C. Smithpeter 1545Tour of NRL facilitiesNRL/G. Creamer

6. 6 Second Day Agenda (May 23, 2002) 0830Alternate Access To ISSMSFC/C. Crumbly 0930ISS-Visiting Vehicles (HTV, ATV, Russian)JSC/A. Dupont & JSC/S. Merkle 10:30 BREAK 10:45DARTMSFC/C. Calfee 11:45Lunch Other AR&C initiatives (institutionally funded) and facilities 1300ARC (Thruster FDI/strength & mass property ID/reconfig) ARC/R. Mah 1330GSFC (Distributed Space Systems Technology program) GSFC/J. Leitner 1400MSFC (AVGS Block II plans) MSFC/ F. Roe 1440BREAK 1500JPL (LAMP, star cameras, algorithms) JPL/R. Bailey 1530JSC (Visidyne, Intel Auto, Visnav, StarNav) JSC/D. Pearson & JSC/J. Bell 1610Summary, Wrap-up & Action Assignments JSC/ T. Nguyen & DARPA/MAJ J. Shoemaker

7. 7 Informal Working Group Charter Purpose of the Working Group: Maximize the benefits from government expenditures in the field of automated rendezvous and capture, as well as in the closely related field of precision orbital formation flying. Principal activities of the Working Group: –Exchange information relating to Rendezvous & capture experience base: lessons learned Existing AR&C initiatives, including their driving design requirements and proposed solutions SE&I tools (current & under development) for AR&C simulation and testing –Provide suggestions for further development of AR&C technologies to support future programs Meeting Frequency: Semi-annual Face-to-Face Meeting?, Location TBD

8. 8 Proposed Working Group Members DOD/NASA Co-Chairs: Major James Shoemaker/DARPA and Tri Nguyen/JSC. NASA: –Ames Research Center (ARC) - Richard Papasin, Robert Mah –Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC) - Son Truong, Thomas Stengle, Jesse Leitner, –Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robert Bailey, Richard Kornfeld –Johnson Space Center (JSC) – Tri Nguyen, Donald Pearson, Scott Merkle, Terry Hill, James Lamoreux, and James Lewis. –Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) - Chris Crumbly, Chris Calfee, James Lomas, Fred Roe DOD: –Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) - Russell Partch –Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) - Major James Shoemaker, Melissa Wright –Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - Glenn Creamer