1. AIAA Gossamer Subcommittee Previous Minutes April 2003

2. Communications The Gossamer Spacecraft Program Committee draws on the expertise and energy of its members through its subcommittees. There are currently seven subcommittees as listed below. Communications: Responsibilities: –Prepare minutes of each GSPC meeting and submit to Chair. (Chair edits, approves, and distributes the minutes by email.) –Write Gossamer Spacecraft Highlights article for December issue of Aerospace America. –Update and maintain GSPC Website. –Post the minutes, newsletter, and Highlights article, membership list, and brochure on the Website. Contact Jake Lewis, Secretary, for more information.Jake Lewis

3. Previous Minutes Gossamer Spacecraft Program Committee Meeting April 9, 2003 AIAA SDM Conference, Norfolk, VA Meeting Start 7:00 PM Attendance Roster Circulated Agenda: 7:00 Call to order[Cadogan] 7:05 Introductions & Start Dinner[Cadogan] 7:10 Year in review (formation update)[Cadogan] 7:20 Subcommittees reports on planned activities[Subcommittee Chairs] 8:30 Website Discussion [Lewis/Slater] 8:40 International update 8:50 Action Item Review[Cadogan] 9:00 Adjourn

4. Previous Minutes GSPC Overview (Dave Cadogan) Summary of 2003 accomplishments presented Scope of GSPC Advocacy GSPC shall consider all components of Gossamer Spacecraft, ie materials, structures, etc. Org chart of GSPC presented Org chart of AIAA presented showing location of GSPC Subcommittee Presentations: Steering subcommittee (Dave Cadogan) Responsibilities: 3 year plan Industry trends and issues Metrics to show growth of gossamer Target TCπs who can help gossamer

5. Previous Minutes Membership subcommittee (John Lassiter) Responsibilities: Subcommittee assignments *John Lassiter recommendations ≠ GSPC can produce a white paper Short course development Aerospace America year in review article Communications subcommittee (Jake Lewis) Responsibilities: Meeting Minutes Aerospace America year in review article Web page

6. Previous Minutes External Affairs (Dean Lester) Responsibilities Contact with other AIAA technical committees and other organizations Position papers Congressional visit days ≠ major focus for next year Education Subcommittee (Chris Jenkins) Responsibilities: Promote education within GSPC Educate up and coming engineers Potentially develop and introductory and advanced Gossamer Short Course

7. Previous Minutes Conference Subcommittee (Richard Pappa) All members of GSPC will be solicited to review papers for GSF @ SDM Best paper selection Conference subcommittee chairs become Technical affairs Chair the following year Other conferences w/ Gossamer activities ICEC = light weight solar arrays JPC = Solar Thermal Propulsion IEEE, Big Sky SPIE = large aperture optics

8. Previous Minutes Technical Affairs (Eric Flint) Support journals ≠ suggest that best paper get submitted to a journal Focal point for technical activities Develop standards History of Gossamer Website overview (Joe Slater) Overview Action to all committee members ≠ send gossamer website links (including your institution) to Joe Need a bibliography List of material suppliers wanted *Action - communications sub-committee ≠ develop website structure for information dissemination ≠ materials, companies, analytical tools. Add a disclaimer that GSPC does not support any of these institutions

9. Previous Minutes *Motion ≠ Everyone should pick their first choice of a sub-committee and divide into those groups at the end of the meeting. Interest in being on a sub-committee is key to participation. International Update [presentations on GSPC website]: Update from Europeans by Christophe Bardet, EADS Update from Japanese by Dr. Natori SDM Activities (Eric Flint) For SDM 600 papers submitted, 577 accepted, 59 withdrawn GSF 54 papers, 3 withdrawn Reviewers should be a little more critical, scores are very high across the board Chris Jenkins Organize 2nd volume of Gossamer book Considering revised first volume instead or in addition Chris attended ESA workshop on space inflatables Meeting adjourned 9:21 PM.

10. Previous Minutes General Actions - Request TC & other links to GSPC members (Lassiter) - Clear up Tech subcommittee and Comm subcommittee article task in charter (Lewis) - Request ideas for historical paper session via e mail (Flint) - Begin work on a Bibliography for website (Slater) - Get info from Bernardo Lopez on JPL website access (Cadogan) - Add a non-endorsement clause to website (Slater) - Collect and post actions lists from subcommittee chairs (Lweis) - Request input on what needs to be in the next gossamer book (Jenkins)