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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, October 1, 2001
The NASA Exploration Team (NEXT) is a Cross-Enterprise Inter-Center planning effort which has been developing coordinated plans and technology roadmaps for the space sciences and for human exploration of space over the next two decades. The NEXT use the current Enterprise Strategic Plans as the source of science objectives, and produce systems requirements, implementation plans and architectures, and technology development priorities. Several of the space science objectives propose very large aperture (>25m) facilities to be placed at the Sun-Earth libration points. The realization of such objectives leads to requirements for Earth-to-orbit transportation, in-space transportation, in- space assembly and servicing, human-robotic coordination capabilities, and human health and safety, among other significant challenges. This presentation will highlight some recent planning concepts and the related technology developments required for the future in-space assembly and servicing capabilities.
Rud Moe has been serving as Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions Manager since before the first servicing mission. In this role, he is responsible for servicing mission planning, development of Shuttle/HST servicing interfaces, and direction of the operations team during servicing. For this service, he has been awarded a NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Mr. Moe is also currently supporting the NASA HQ Cross-Enterprise Inter-Center planning efforts for advanced servicing and assembly in space, which is the subject of today's colloquium. Earlier, Mr Moe served as Systems Manager and Shuttle Interfaces Manager for the Satellite Servicing Project at GSFC, supporting the SMM, UARS, and EUVE Explorer Platform programs. He also was detailed as a Program Manager for satellite servicing studies at NASA Headquarters Office of Space Flight. Before he joined GSFC as a civil servant, he supported several GSFC projects as a contractor employee. While employed successively by RCA, Westinghouse, and OAO, he performed systems engineering, analysis, and operations duties in spacecraft electrical systems, Shuttle interfaces, spacecraft and ground systems data systems, and attitude control systems. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Catholic University in 1966, then after several graduate school studies in EE at RPI and at the University of Maaryland, he completed a Master of Science in Applied Physics at Johns Hopkins in 1984.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Dr. Jan Kalshoven
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