At present, ASI is a small organization, whose primary activities are in continuing research and development for product development, preparing material for presentations, and doing long-range company planning.  Our organization structure reflects this. ASI's Board consists of the active proposal team members, and others who have done significant work since the proposal. External advisors are consulted from time to time. The organization's activities are conducted by teams, each headed by a Board member.

Catherine Matos:         Executive Director and  Team Leader, Outreach Activities
Narayanan Komerath:  Faculty Advisor &  Board Chair. Team Leader, Strategic Plan development

Sam Wanis:                 Team Leader, Research and Development.
Richard Ames:             Team Leader, Financial Analysis.
Justin Hausaman:          Team Leader, Long Range Planning
Don Changeau:             Team Leader, Flight Test Engineering.
Adam Coker:               Team Leader Product Development

Executive Director:

Empowered to make decisions for the Board Chair in his absence, and see that contacts with NASA and other entities are handled effectively. Track financial commitments and decide on travel arrangements, etc. Coordinate communications between NASAother schools,  Board Chair and the project teams. The E.D. will work with the other team leaders and the Chair to develop the Company's overall Strategic Plans, and decide sequence of steps to be taken to reach these.

Outreach:

This team is empowered to draw on all project members, delegate assignments, and organize outreach activities including:
Web Page development
Presentation development & delivery.
Dealings with K-12.

Team: Sam, Don, Tinoush

Analyze flight test data. Prepare engineering simulations of acoustic field needed to build appropriate products. Investigate and analyze behavior of new materials under acoustic shaping. Develop documentation for present and future processes. Prepare for Y2000 KC-135 proposal and flight experiment. Pursue preparations and documentation for Sounding Rocket, STS middeck Getaway Special, and SpaceHab experiment packages. Refine and continually improve quality of ASI products through technical innovation and enhanced accuracy of prediction, estimation and production techniques.

Team: Richard, Yuan, Ashraf, Olivier.
Prepare short-term and long-term  financial projections for the company, for different scenarios. Prepare detailed cost and revenue estimates for individual products, processes and phases in company development. Suggest strategies for consideration by Board. Responsible for all financial data and results to be presented in Final Report, Web Pages and in Customer Interaction Conference. Made presentations on financial aspects as needed; update results on the Web. Coordinate dealings with CoM team members if any.

Team: Justin, Adam, Richard, Peter Posiask, and anyone else needed or contributing.

Develop detailed plans, linking to assumptions, scenarios and stated plans of NASA, other commercial entities, and other NMB teams. Incorporate implications of new discoveries such as the truth about water on the Moon; details of proposed mission plans of the NASA Reference Mission, the Zubrin Mars Direct plans, MIT ThinkMARS mission plans, new launch systems, TransHab capabilities, and asteroid mining plans, for example. Develop appropriate graphics and data to communicate findings. Specifically look at alternatives to Acoustic Shaping in the development of the Space-based construction industry.

Team: Don, Adam, Justin, Yuan, Olivier, Sam

Design experiment for Year 2000 KC-135 proposal. Incorporate results from analysis of 1999 and prior flight tests, and incorporate preparations for other possible flight tests such as the sounding rocket mission, STS Getaway Special and the SpaceHab opportunity. Understand constraints, dealdines, environment and requirements of each experiment and respond effectively. Prepare detailed documentation and procedures to ensure mission success and accomodate contingencies.

Team: Adam, Richard, Sam, Justin

Pursue ideas for products and markets. Get data on markets, communicate with potential collaborators and customers to develop opportunities. Distill ideas down to specific products. Work with R&D to define processes, work with Finance to estimate costs and break-even points. Work with Planning to develop appropriate graphics / product description material.

Each team is responsible for creating their own web page, graphics, sections of the Final Report, and section of the presentation(s).
 
 
 
 

Major deadlines:

Needed:

1. Powerpoint presentation
2. Animation to present the future of Space Construction Industry, and itstechnical features and possibilities.

At least the team faculty member and one student representative must attend all 3 days.

Action Items:

1. NASA mentors will contact us. Issue to ask Joyce Carpenter or the other Mentor:
a) Where can we find reference cost estimates for the NASA Reference Mission? We need these to validate / compare with our own estimates of the NASA Ref. Mission and ASI operations.
b) Need help in finding out more about how the AeroGel construction material is manufactured. Is it compatible with acoustic shaping? If so, great, but if not, we still need to learn about this to broaden our capabilities in Space-based Construction.
c) Can we get help in getting into NASA's Sounding Rocket program? We heard that one can get about 7 minutes of microgravity using a sounding rocket. This is enough time for us to make an epoxy harden, so that we can experiment with parts actually built in microgravity.

2. We plan to go around GT to several Schools, and give a presentation on ASI and the NMB. For this, we need our PowerPoint presentation, henceforth to be called, courtesy of Prof. Marilyn Smith, the "DAPS" for Dog And Pony Show.
    The DAPS will be given at BioEngg. (Dr. Giddens), Chem. Engg. (Catherine ask about this), and MSM (Richard / Prof. Jayaraman), and Materials (nk ask Dr. Armanios).

3. Richard can put the ASI Strategic Plan and new version of logo on the Web Page, but leave the old logo where it is.

4. Everyone is to post what they find on their own web pages, so that we can all access these, and link easily.
5. NL will keep after the Communications Dept., who have not called back.
6. Richard & Adam will pursue their studies of Resins etc.
7. Forward names of any companies which you find in the construction business to Richard so that he can check on their financial aspects for his data collection.
 

The DAPS will contain the following major sections:

Strategic Plan
Finance Plan
Marketing Plan.

Animations , movies, etc. will go into these.

After some discussion, we concluded that our customers are:

1) The Construction Industry in Space, which consists of the aerospace vehicle builders, and the human habitation / facilities/ tourist resort  builders.
2) The biomedical industry on earth. We can build both high-purity parts and medicines, and intricately-shaped parts.
3) The Electronics industry: we can use non-contact manufacturing in microgravity.
4) The Chemical Engg. industry: we can build pressure vessels and plumbing cheaply in space.
5) The Optics industry: we can build high-quality lenses, mirrors, antennae.

Meeting Feb. 9.

1. We will talk to NASA this week, thursday at 11 preferred. Must find speakerphone.

Questions for NASA:
1. Do they want us to broaden our effort  to include a broad spectrum of the construction industry?
2. We would appreciate help in contacting experts on acoustic shaping / current work in this area?
3. We need help in getting detailed cost estimates / cost breakdown on current missions/ reference mission.
4. Would appreciate contact with Aerogel people (NOTE: On 2/10, NK e-mailed contact on AeroGel Web Page put up by Justin).
5. How can we get on a Shuttle mission? Sounding rockets? We must demonstrate / analyze material hardening in microgravity (any Materials experts at NASA who might help us in this?)
 Ideal sequence: Start planning/design for STS mission, using experience from simulations / KC-135 and ground tests to-date. Get on sounding rocket missions to validate design assumptions. Current thinking is that a sounding rocket mission can give us a 7-minute duration of microgravity plus some time during the recovery before a (reasonably) soft landing. This should be enough for fast-setting resins.
 

DAPS schedule

1. Preliminary, simple presentation of the project to AE freshmen/sophomore class + some faculty incl. Dr. Loewy: Tuesday Feb 9.
2. DAPS version 1 to Dr. Giddens / BioEngg. faculty/students in ME. Go ahead and schedule (Catherine ask Urmila about procedure)
This should include potential applications and some detail on technology for potential use in bio-engineering. Also bio-engineering market?
3. DAPS version 2 to AE AIAA seminar? 45-minute presentation, going in-depth into technical issues.
Target: Show off different areas of interest. Seek AE juniors/ seniors/ grad students as participants. Get tough questions on technology and plans.
4. DAPS version 3: Materials / Textile Engg. Dr. Abhiraman being contacted as a prospective host.
Target: get Materials Engg. interest in developing materials for acoustic shaping / space-based construction.
5. DAPS version 4: Ivan Allen College / Mgmt. School . Include Finance Plan and Strategic Plan
Target: Snare some interested and smart Mgmt. / Policy / Finance people. Get tough questions on Business Plan.
6. DAPS version 2.2: (can occur before DAPS 3): Self-running presentation to be taken to elementary / middle/high schools. Target: get schools interested in developing Science Fair projects and class projects dealing with space-based businesses, space-based construction, microgravity construction experiments. We might help them get on the KC-135.
7. Success in Item 5 above is considered essential to this: Develop DAPS version 5, to go to senior-level Advisory Board.

Versions 0.1,  and 2.2 can go on the Web as soon as they are developed.