Engineering and Technology for Sustainable Space
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
Space-based technologies are on the rise. Satellites have transformed our capability to monitor, navigate and communicate across the globe. But satellite overpopulation in valuable earth orbits has become a concern. And future space-based solar stations, space tourism and research vehicles will only add to the volume of activity beyond Earth’s atmosphere. In this collection we will explore directions of research for the optimal design, use and management of space-based technologies to maintain a productive and sustainable space environment. We are also happy to consider research exploring resource circularity and sustainability in the manufacture of technologies and their delivery and deployment vehicles.
Topics of interest include:
• Space situational awareness: Space traffic management and control, satellite communication and positioning, such as space cybersecurity, on board data handling, space navigation and control, space environment surveillance and tracking, such as moving object detection and characterization
• In-orbit assembly, maintenance, and servicing: in-orbit manufacturing and construction, in-orbit operation, satellite inspection, orbit control and analysis, in-orbit refueling, space docking systems
• Space pollution reduction and clean up: Space waste treatment technology: tow and scrap, recycling, debris remediation and removal, space pollution treatment, including light pollution, dust pollution
• Technology design and ground support: For example eco-system design, ground support technologies, sustainable propulsion, including propulsion sensors, fuels, deflection
Editors
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Minghe Shan
PhD, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.
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Jonathan Sauder
PhD, Office of Technology Maturation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Dr. Minghe Shan is currently a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, in 2018, and then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Flexible Multibody Dynamics of Space Structures at the University of Maryland, College Park, US. His current research interests are in active space debris removal, in-orbit assembly and servicing, spacecraft dynamics and control, flexible multibody dynamics of space structures, and space robotics.
Dr. Jonathan Sauder is the Deputy in the Office of Technology Maturation at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he enables technologies that will change the future of planetary exploration and performs technical work as a mechatronics engineer and principal investigator. He is a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient, a three-time NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) Fellow (for a Venus rover and deployable architecture), has received 5 best paper awards, and an inventor on 4 deployable antenna patents. He is also a Bren Visiting Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology and a Part Time Lecturer of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 2013, focusing on how collaboration aids engineers in creating innovative designs, a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked R&D roles for Mattel, Microsoft and Monsanto and consulted technology startups.
