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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Mars Sample Return Helicopter Testing
DESCRIPTION:https://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nPerformance Analysis and Data Processing for the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 25-ft Space Simulator\nPresented by Dr. Natasha Lydia Schatzman\, NASA Ames Research Center \nOn April 19\, 2021\, Ingenuity became the first helicopter to fly on Mars at Jezero Crater\, completing a total of 72 flights by the end of its mission. The success of Ingenuity resulted in various research efforts to further explore Mars via vertical flight\, including two optimized Ingenuity-sized helicopters proposed to retrieve samples for the 2028 Mars Sample Return mission. To aid in the design process for the two proposed Sample Retrieval Helicopters\, both heritage and optimized\, increased diameter rotors were tested at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 25-ft Space Simulator. Three test campaigns were performed using the Ingenuity rotors and optimized Sample Retrieval Helicopter (SRH) rotors for several rotor speeds\, densities\, configurations\, and collectives to identify performance limitations. These three test campaigns included the Ingenuity Engineering Design Model 1 (EDM-1) with and without a cruciform box\, Transonic Rotor Test (TRT) rig\, and SRH Dual Rotor Test (DRT). Experimental setup\, test matrix\, data processing\, data quality\, and performance results for EDM-1\, TRT\, and DRT campaigns are presented and discussed. Experimental results from the test campaigns will aid in future experimental methods and validation efforts for planetary rotorcraft exploration. \nDr. Natasha Lydia Schatzman has worked at NASA Ames Research Center in the Aeromechanics Office for over 15 years and was the first Ames NASA Pathways Intern\, paving the way for others. Dr. Schatzman has immersed herself in NASA’s mission to aid in the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and the design\, testing\, and analysis of planetary vehicles. Most recently\, she was awarded the 2025 Waves of Change Rising Technology Star Award\, VFS Alex Stoll Award\, and the VFS San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s Velkoff Award for Outstanding Technical Paper. Dr. Natasha Schatzman truly believes that if we want to innovate\, progress\, and advance technology\, then we must inspire\, mentor\, and transfer knowledge responsibly for the future! She has mentored over 60 students since 2008 in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames\, who have gone on to become leaders in academia\, industry\, and government and has reached thousands with her outreach efforts. \n  \nSchedule \n6:00 Doors open\, networking\n6:15 Food arrives\n6:30 Presentation begins\n7:15 Q&A\n7:30 Event ends\n(All times approximate) \nAdvance registration required! Refreshments (pizza\, sandwiches\, drinks) will be served at the presentation for paid attendees only. Food tickets must be purchased before noon on the event day.\nThere will also be a webinar link available with any ticket. \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/mars-sample-return-helicopter-testing/
LOCATION:Hacker Dojo\, 855 Maude Avenue\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251115T170000
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SUMMARY:AIAA Banquet 2025
DESCRIPTION:From RASCAL to RASCAL-X: Celebrating a Legacy of Rotorcraft Innovation\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nCome 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 guest\, Jay Fletcher\, on the history and ongoing story of the RASCAL helicopter. \nThis presentation highlights the legacy and future of vertical lift research through the U.S. Army’s Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory (RASCAL) program. Centered around the newly inducted JUH-60A Black Hawk RASCAL—now a featured exhibit at the Moffett Field Museum—the talk will reflect on over three decades of innovation in flight control\, human-machine interfaces\, and handling qualities science and technology. \nOriginally conceived in 1989 to meet the evolving research needs of NASA and the U.S. Army\, the JUH-60A RASCAL was transformed into a full-authority\, fly-by-wire flying laboratory. Equipped with a programmable flight control system\, real-time obstacle detection and avoidance\, and a color helmet-mounted display\, RASCAL served as a versatile testbed for a wide range of experimental technologies. From advancing sensor-driven autonomous navigation to the development of MIL-DTL-32742\, its contributions have shaped the trajectory of modern rotorcraft systems. \nWith the retirement of the JUH-60A platform\, the RASCAL legacy continues in the form of the newly developed UH-60M-based RASCAL-X. Making its maiden flight in April 2024\, RASCAL-X is designed to support next-generation research in modular open systems architecture\, advanced flight controls\, human-machine teaming\, and autonomy. As a national asset\, RASCAL-X will enable future breakthroughs in Army aviation and vertical lift science for years to come. \n \nJay Fletcher is a former RASCAL flight test engineer\, project manager\, and Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD) at NASA Ames Research Center. Jay began his career at AFDD after graduating from Princeton University in 1985. He earned a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford while working as an aerospace engineer and a RASCAL principal investigator at AFDD in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. He published several papers and reports focused on the identification of rotorcraft flight dynamics using RASCAL flight test data that were used in the design of the RASCAL flight control system and continue to be widely referenced. \nJay left government service in the late ‘90s to pursue a career in automotive racing engineering\, but returned to AFDD in 2004. He served as the RASCAL project manager from 2005 to 2012\, and guided many of the aircraft’s most productive flight test development projects. Jay also oversaw RASCAL work as the AFDD Deputy Director from 2012 to 2018. \nIn 2018 Jay transferred from the Army to NASA\, and became the Director of the New Opportunities Center at NASA Ames. He later served as the Deputy Director of Aeronautics (acting) and the Associate Director of Aeronautics Projects. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Programs and Projects Directorate at Ames. \n  \nSchedule: \nDinner starts at approx. 5:00 pm \nCome as early as 4:00 pm\, or stay as late as 7:00 pm\, to explore the museum. \n  \nNOTE: A REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or ID card\, or a valid passport\, required for entry to Moffett Field \nRegister here: \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/aiaa-banquet-2025/
LOCATION:Moffett Field Museum\, Building 126\, Severyns Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94035\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tech Talk: Fighting Wildfires from the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Fighting Wildfires from the Sky: Toward Safer\, Around-the-Clock Aerial Operations\nPresented by Dr. Gilbert Wu\, NASA Ames Research Center \nRegister here:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nAircraft 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 only limited capability in challenging conditions like heavy smoke or low visibility. This leaves critical hours—especially at night—when fires can continue to grow with reduced aerial support.\nIn this talk\, we explore how new technologies being developed at NASA are helping change that picture. By advancing smarter airspace management and coordination tools\, these innovations aim to enable safe\, continuous (24/7) aerial operations and better integration of both crewed and uncrewed aircraft. The goal is to make firefighting from the sky safer\, more flexible\, and more effective—even in complex and low-visibility environments.\nJoin us for a look at how these emerging capabilities could transform wildfire response in the years ahead\, expanding what’s possible\, improving safety for those on the front lines\, and helping communities better face the growing challenge of wildfires. \nGilbert Wu’s research focuses on the application of AI and machine learning to improve aviation operations\, including aircraft conflict detection and resolution\, arrival flow management\, and trajectory optimization. He is passionate about bringing innovative concepts and algorithms to complex air traffic management challenges.\nBefore joining NASA\, he worked as a professional software developer\, and he continues to advocate for robust tools and effective processes in software development and deployment. He holds one patent and has authored or coauthored more than thirty journal articles\, conference papers\, and technical reports.\nDr. Wu currently leads the Airspace Management Research team within the ACERO team of NASA’s AAMP project. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA. \nSchedule \n6:00 Doors open\, networking\n6:15 Food arrives\n6:30 Presentation begins\n7:15 Q&A\n7:30 Event ends\n(All times approximate) \nAdvance registration required! Refreshments (pizza\, sandwiches\, drinks) will be served at the presentation for paid attendees only. Food tickets must be purchased before noon on the event day.\nThere will also be a live stream available for remote attendees. \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/tech-talk-fighting-wildfires/
LOCATION:Hacker Dojo\, 855 Maude Avenue\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Precision Metrology for Space Science: LISA\, Atom Interferometry\, and Optical Clocks
DESCRIPTION:Precision Metrology for Space Science: LISA\, Atom Interferometry\, and Optical Clocks\nBy Walter Victor Unglaub \nRegister here:\nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/ \nThe 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 mid-to-late 2030s on the Ariane 6 launcher. LISA must resolve picometer-scale changes in distance across 2.5-million-kilometer arms: a fractional measurement of order one part in 10^21. At that level\, the spacecraft and instrument form a single coupled measurement system\, and the limiting noise sources are precisely the types an analog and measurement engineer worries about on the bench\, scaled to extremes. \nIn this talk\, we will walk through the LISA metrology chain end-to-end\, mapping each link to the noise term it contributes. We will also examine how this metrology cross-pollinates. GRACE Follow-On’s laser ranging interferometer (LRI) demonstrated nanometer precision over 220km and the GRACE-FO mission now maps changes in Earth’s gravity associated with groundwater\, ice\, oceans\, and other redistributed mass. Meanwhile\, atom interferometers and portable optical clocks are moving fundamental-physics techniques toward field-deployable inertial sensing\, gravity measurement\, and relativistic geodesy. \n  \nWalter Victor Unglaub received degrees in engineering physics (2009) and applied physics (2010) from Colorado School of Mines in Golden\, CO\, where he studied condensed matter systems with an emphasis on atomic scattering in cold quantum gases. He additionally worked on plasma physics and researched tokamak plasma transport at General Atomics in San Diego\, CA (2008). His research experience further extends to quantum optics and open quantum system control through DoD MURI grants at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2010 to 2015. \nWalter worked at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering\, teaching and collaborating on various government- and university-funded research projects\, including x-ray imaging of semiconductor ICs\, automation of analog and mixed-signal design\, and optimization of optical interconnects in data centers (2017-2020). In parallel\, Walter worked at a robotics startup (Giant.AI) as a design engineer and project manager (2019-2022)\, where he designed\, manufactured\, assembled\, and tested humanoid robots trained with reinforcement learning. \nWalter is passionate about teaching and has been professionally tutoring since 2013. He currently teaches cosmology as an adjunct faculty member at California State University\, Dominguez Hills (2022-present)\, and is studying regenerative and stem cell technologies through Johns Hopkins University (2024-present). In addition to continuing research in quantum optics and electron transport\, he is also a VLSI research engineer at USC\, where he develops labs and teaching modules for the ECE department with a concentration on linear\, RF\, and sensor circuits (2024-present). \nSchedule \n6:00 Doors open\, networking\n6:15 Food arrives\n6:30 Presentation begins\n7:15 Q&A\n7:30 Event ends\n(All times approximate) \nAdvance registration required! Refreshments (pizza\, sandwiches\, drinks) will be served at the presentation for paid attendees only. Food tickets must be purchased before noon on the event day.\nThere will also be a live stream available for remote attendees. \nhttps://aiaa-sf.org/registration/
URL:https://aiaa-sf.org/event/precision-metrology/
LOCATION:Hacker Dojo\, 855 Maude Avenue\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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