https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ Dragonfly: A Relocatable Rotorcraft Lander for the Exploration of Saturn’s Moon Titan NASA’s 4th New Frontiers Mission is the Titan Dragonfly relocatable lander. This coaxial quadrotor vehicle will be launched on a rocket to Titan in 2028. Following a gravity assisted Earth flyby and an approximate 6-year transit, Dragonfly will enter the Titan atmosphere [...]

https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ From Photons to Ions: The Electric Heart of the Artemis Lunar Space Station Presented by Jordan Gormaly and Ian Johnson, Maxar Space Systems Join the AIAA San Francisco Chapter for an exciting presentation from Maxar Space Systems engineers Jordan Gormaly and Ian Johnson, who will give an inside look at the Power and Propulsion [...]

https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ Cleared for Takeoff: Advanced Air Mobility in a Shared Sky Presented by Dr. Jaewoo Jung, NASA Ames Research Center The airspace over the United States is entering an era of unprecedented complexity. The current system manages approximately 45,000 daily flights serving more than 800 million passengers annually, a figure expected to grow to 1.2 [...]

https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ Performance Analysis and Data Processing for the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 25-ft Space Simulator Presented by Dr. Natasha Lydia Schatzman, NASA Ames Research Center On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity became the first helicopter to fly on Mars at Jezero Crater, completing a total of 72 flights by the end [...]

From RASCAL to RASCAL-X: Celebrating a Legacy of Rotorcraft Innovation https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ Come join AIAA-SF for food and fun at our 2025 Annual Awards Banquet on November 15th. Help us celebrate with this year’s Section Awards winners and other honorees. Your ticket includes dinner, admission to the Moffett Field Museum, and a presentation from our special [...]

Fighting Wildfires from the Sky: Toward Safer, Around-the-Clock Aerial Operations Presented by Dr. Gilbert Wu, NASA Ames Research Center Register here: https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ Aircraft have been supporting wildfire response for decades—dropping water and retardant, tracking fire movement, and helping protect communities. Yet most aerial firefighting today is still limited to daytime operations using crewed aircraft, with [...]

Precision Metrology for Space Science: LISA, Atom Interferometry, and Optical Clocks By Walter Victor Unglaub Register here: https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ The hardest space-science missions are, at their core, measurement problems. ESA’s LISA gravitational-wave observatory was formally adopted in January 2024, with industrial construction under prime contractor OHB System AG underway since mid-2025, and launch targeted for the [...]