Annual Section Awards Celebration (a.k.a. Virtual Annual Banquet)
AIAA SF Section will felicitate the 2021 section award winners during our annual banquet (in webinar form). These awards are given in six categories on an annual basis. The award certificates will be sent to all the winners after the event on September 18th.
Our Guest Speaker, John Andrews, will be speaking on the NASA Lucy spacecraft and its mission to explore the small population of asteroids that orbit with Jupiter, known as the Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids have been trapped in stable orbits around the Jovian Lagrange points 4 and 5, providing a unique opportunity to further study the building blocks of our Solar System and its formation.
John Andrews is the Payload Deputy Project Manager, overseeing payload operations for the Lucy Mission. Payloads for Lucy include L’Ralph (NASA Goddard), L’TES (ASU), and L’LORRI (JHU) studying infrared and visible spectrum observations of Trojan asteroids.
Synopsis: Lucy is a planned NASA space probe that will complete a 12-year journey to seven different asteroids, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as six Jupiter trojans, asteroids which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.
lucy.swri.edu/mission/Overview.html
Attendance is free. Register here: