The sequence consists of 11 seminars highlighting Ames Analysis Middle’s various capabilities and experience in advancing NASA, academia, and industrial area targets.
Rachel Ticknor
From Thought to Mission Idea
Tuesday, June 24 at 11:00AM Pacific Daylight Time
Summary:
The NASA Ames Mission Design Middle (MDC) is a multi-disciplinary staff that employs concurrent engineering approaches for early-stage mission formulation. Research are developed utilizing the Idea Maturity Degree (CML) framework, an strategy just like the Expertise Readiness Degree (TRL) technique used to evaluate know-how maturity. We assist growth of Planetary science, Earth science, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Expertise Improvement, and Exploration missions all through the photo voltaic system. An summary of our mission formulation strategy might be offered adopted by a case examine to showcase how the CML framework is utilized to mature a Mars mission idea. The CML framework facilitates discussions of idea maturity, gives a foundation for improved idea growth practices, and helps set up affordable expectations primarily based on the maturity of the ideas in consideration.
Biography:
Rachel Ticknor is a methods engineer with a background in mechanical engineering, aerospace methods engineering, management of aerospace methods, and design for manufacturing. At present she helps the MDC as a methods engineer with a deal with launch automobiles, flight methods, flight dynamics, and mechanical engineering. As well as, she develops customized evaluation instruments to facilitate mission idea maturation. Mission idea research span Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, and know-how demonstration missions. Beforehand Rachel managed the Spaceshop fast prototyping lab, overseeing its operations and conducting analysis into modern supplies and purposes of additive manufacturing, served because the lead mechanical engineer for the PY-4 mission (a four-cubesat swarm of PyCubed-based spacecraft), and held roles as a mechanical and Angle Dedication and Management Programs (ADCS) engineer for the Payload Accelerator for CubeSat Endeavors (PACE)-1 and PACE-2 missions, the place she co-led the mechanical sub-team for PACE-2.
E. Lara Lash
Portray a Image of Strain
Thursday, June 26 at 11:00AM Pacific Daylight Time
Summary:
What do launch automobiles, plane, reentry capsules, and flight simulations all have in frequent? They want wind tunnel knowledge to work! The necessity to take a look at in wind tunnel amenities is not going to disappear quickly, however as a way to develop higher computational instruments (CFD) and design the following stage of rockets and area automobiles alongside plane, extra superior experimental methods are required. At NASA Ames, the unsteady pressure-sensitive paint (uPSP) staff has been growing the know-how from small-scale benchtop to a helpful and modern system that leverages the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel and the NASA Superior Supercomputing Division, additionally positioned at Ames, to ship unprecedented knowledge to clients. Constructing off developments in optical entry to wind tunnel fashions, uPSP makes use of high-speed cameras and high-powered LEDs to fluoresce paint on the mannequin floor to get excessive spatio-temporal floor strain knowledge and ship it proper over to the supercomputer for processing in near-real time. This gives extra knowledge quicker than conventional strain transducers can present and with better accessibility. It’s not CFD, it’s PSP!
Biography:
Dr. E. Lara Lash is an aerospace engineering researcher within the Experimental Aero-Physics Department at NASA Ames. She leads the unsteady pressure-sensitive paint (uPSP) growth, which seeks to advance the uPSP know-how for brand spanking new purposes and scale the system to be used throughout NASA wind tunnels. She has led the staff for 2 years overseeing developments in knowledge acquisition, knowledge switch and administration, and knowledge processing, main the event of connecting the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel facility to the NASA Superior Supercomputing Division to leverage current high-end computing capabilities. Previous to main the staff, she interned with Nettie Roozeboom in the summertime of 2019 and subsequently labored on the staff to advance paint calibrations and carry out analysis experiments. She can be the Ames Middle Liaison for the Transformative Instruments & Expertise group beneath the Aeronautics Analysis Mission Directorate.
Dr. Lash can be the recipient of the 2024 NASA Early Profession Achievement Medal and an Honorable Point out for the 2023 NASA Software program of the 12 months Award. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.
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