Michael T. Suffredini ISS Program Manager AAS 3 rd Annual ISS - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Michael T. Suffredini ISS Program Manager AAS 3rd Annual ISS Research and Development Conference

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Research Highlights of the Past Year

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Pharmaceutical/medical/biological Earth sensing Materials

Education Exploration/Fundamental Research

33/34 35/36 37/38 Crew Time (hrs/wk) 38 40 43 # Investigations 217 217 201* # New Inv. 51 41 42*

Number of Investigations Expedition 0-36: 1556

* Prelim. numbers, subject to change.

Research Capability Upgrades

Internal

• Rodent, drosophila ,

cell, and plant research

• On orbit analysis
• Additional glovebox

External

• Earth pointing platform
• Exposure platforms
• Deployment capabilities for

CubeSat and larger payloads

ISS Infrastructure Upgrades

Recent Upgrades

• Additional S/G channels to enable

PI’s to talk to the crew

• Increased ability for high quality

video downlink

• Increased data down/uplink
• Command and telemetry capability

using internet protocols via Stella (IP encapsulation)

• Additional video downlink channels

enabling simultaneous payload ops

• 110 VAC power interface for COTS

products

• Higher quality cameras to take

advantage of increased downlink capability

• External wireless access

Upcoming Additions

• KU forward link provides payloads

commanding capability via standard internet protocols (Jan 2015)

• Delay Tolerant Network (Mar

2015)

• Web-based access
• 4th crew to increase crew time to

average 68.5 hours per week

• High def video of external ISS

from multiple locations (pan, tilt, zoom, still images)

ISS Extension

Goals

• Enable the development of a commercial

market in LEO

• Return benefits to humanity
• Complete investigations to reduce human

health and performance risk for long duration deep space missions

• Mature technology for spaceflight beyond

LEO

• Provide basis for international exploration

cooperation

3 crew (2009) 4 crew (2017)

Implications

• 4th crew for 4 more years

means an additional 25000+ hours of crew time

• 10 years to demonstrate the

value for commercial and non-government users

• Simplify and shorten

template for payload developers

3 crew (2009)

Assembly Complete (2011)

4 crew (2017)

Commercializing LEO

ISS as a platform is available to

• Determine what works and

what doesn’t

• Gather data to make a

business case As soon as a commercial approach becomes available, NASA will move our research to the commercial platform

Inverting the Focus

Evolving from the Program as the Customer to the Investigator

Single customer input distributed within Program Investigator schedule centered

• n payload

development schedule Approved research experiment Investigator input into multiple processes with redundant data Investigator timeline driven by NASA defined, launch date- focused milestones Approved research experiment

Customer Effort Program Effort NOW > FUTURE

Upcoming Opportunities

Science Opportunities

• CASIS

– Any funded research can take advantage of ISS at any time – Pathfinder research announcements to prime new areas of research of commercial interest

• Earth remote sensing, materials science,

stem cells

• NASA solicits for research in many

areas

– Astrophysics, Earth science instruments, Life Sciences/Space Biology, Human research and exploration risk, GeneLAB – omics

• Data acquisition/sharing

– HICO hyperspectral data, life sciences data archive, physical science informatics database

Business Opportunities via CASIS

• Biomedical

– Drug mechanisms – Protein structures – Innovation incubators

• Earth Observation
• Industry partnerships

– Smart materials – Technology demonstration and development

• Education partnerships

Limitations and Synergies

More investigations  more likely to max out resources

To ensure you aren’t caught by these limits in your research, think about

• Crew Time

– Automation or ground operated – Combining related experiments

• Upmass/Downmass

– In situ analysis to redirect research in real time and reduce dependence on return samples – Minimize numbers of samples and runs

• Data

– Internal data recorders, batch files for download, DTN, downlink at varying rates

Synergies that can maximize utilization with limitations of resources

• Sample sharing

– Biospecimen sharing program – Sharing blood draws or other collection of human samples

• Data sharing and archiving

– GeneLAB, Physical Science Informatics, Life Science Data Archive – Data archives for Earth and space observational instruments

• Hardware sharing
• International collaboration

Next few increments will be tight for crew time while we reconfigure ISS to support 4 crew.

Summary

• ISS is healthy and still has capacity for growth
• The ISS Program continues to work with our customers to

reduce integration time and increase flexibility…while flying safely

• ISS life extension now provides 10 years of on orbit time to

utilize ISS and establish a business case for commercial viability in LEO

• CASIS is increasing commercial use of ISS
• ISS reconfiguration to support commercial crew will

challenge crew time for research in the next few increments , but ultimately increases research capability

• Together we are advancing research in and

commercialization of LEO for the benefit of all.

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