Institute for Space Systems Operations
1992/1993 Annual Report
Table of Contents
The Director's Message
ISSO and the National Space Grant Program
The Woods Hole Conference
1000-Day Mission to the Moon and Mars
Aerospace Power, Propulsion and Electronics
Health Monitoring of Rocket Engines
Architecture and Composition of the Space Station Electrical Power System Module
Monitoring of Aerospace Structures
Knowledge-Based Fault Detection and Recovery in Power Distribution Systems
Superconducting Quantum Interference Gratings
Fracture of Solid Propellants
Space Systems EMC/EMI Analysis using IEMCAP
Development of Integrated Circuit Packaging Techniques for Curved Surfaces
Education
Curriculum and Courses for Space Operations Clientele
Environment
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pollutants Using a Space-Based Tunable TEA CO2 Laser
GEOWARN System: A Global Disaster Warning and Migration System
Rocket Payload for in situ Measurement of Atmosphere Ozone
Fluids and Thermal
Fourier Optics Applications of Analysis of Particle Velocimetry Holograms
An Experimental Investigation of High-Turbulence Heat Transfer
On the Control and Detection of Long-Lived Wakes
Liquid Crystal Imaging of Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection
Effective Thermal Conductivity of Fibrous Materials
Life Sciences
Characterization and Monitoring of Microbial Populations in the Context of Long-Duration Space Missions
Recording and Analysis of Sleep Biosignals To Quantify Space Motion Sickness and Other Microgravity Effects on Astronauts
Evaluation of Space Radiation Exposure and Protection by Monte Carlo Simulation
DNA Probe Assays for Monitoring Spacecraft Microbiology
Robotics
Fault Tolerant Adaptive Exploration in Complex Environments
Intelligent Adaptive Control for Tele-Robots
Accomplishments in Robotics and the Computer Control Systems Laboratory
Efficient Strategies Based on Approximations of the Outlier Set Simulation and Optimizing of Rocket Trajectories
CORDIC for Tele-Robotic Kinematics Computation
Software and Analysis Techniques
Simulation Reduction Using the Taguchi Method: A Feasibility Study and an Analytic Model for Footprint Dispersion and Its Application to Mission Design
Measurement of Computer Software Quality
Modular Structures for Large Rule-Based Systems
Space Industrialization and Economics
Utilization of Lunar Resource: Oxygen, Iron, and Casting Material from Superheated Metals of Lunar Regolith
Transforming the Energy Basis in the U.S. and the World
Space Science and Astrophysics
Monitoring Electrostatic Charging Hazard to EVA Astronauts
Laser Spectroscopic Characterization of Hot HCN at Astrophysically Significant Vibrational Energy Content
Sample Collecting Unmanned Lunar Rover
Rocket-Deployed X-Ray Pinhole Camera for Use in Electron Precipitation Studies
Publications
Presentations
Submitted Proposals
Executive Summary, Mission to America
1992-1993 Principal Research and Investigators
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