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From: "R. J. Dev. Kwan" <kwan0xfff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 01:57:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update agenda to 1/30.

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 <h1 align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Preliminary Space Access 2019 Conference Agenda</b></span></h1>
-<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Updated 1/26/19</span></p>
+<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Updated 1/30/19</span></p>
 <hr />
-<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>(We're just getting rolling</b> - this list represents <strong>roughly half</strong> of the final SA2019 three-day program. Stay tuned for more details and many excellent program additions in the coming weeks.)</span></p>
-<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Stay tuned to <a href="https://sa2019.erps.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>https://sa2019.erps.org/</b></a> for overall conference info and many excellent program additions in the coming weeks.</span></p>
-<p> </p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>(We're rolling</b> - this list represents <strong>over two-thirds</strong> of the final SA2019 three-day program. Stay tuned for additional details and a few more excellent program additions in the coming weeks.)</span></p>
+
 <hr />
 <h2><strong>Confirmed speakers/presentations so far</strong></h2>
 <ul>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Breakthrough Starshot</b> will discuss <b>Plans for a Near-Term Interstellar Probe</b>
+    <b>James Benford</b>
+    on <b>Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Paul Breed/Unreasonable Rocket</b> will discuss <b>Development Of A Low-Cost Modular Launcher</b>
+    <b><a href="https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3" target="_blank">Breakthrough Starshot</a>/Peter Klupar</b>
+    on <b>Plans for a Near-Term Interstellar Probe</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Bill Bruner</b>
+    <b><a href="https://csdc.space/our-goals/" target="_blank">Cislunar Space Development Company</a>/Dallas Bienhoff</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Cislunar Space Development Company/Dallas Bienhoff</b>
+    <b><a href="http://www.cubecab.com/" target="_blank">CubeCab</a></b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Mitchell Burnside Clapp</b>
+    <b><a href="https://exosaero.com/" target="_blank">EXOS Aerospace</a>/John Quinn</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>CubeCab</b>
+    <b><a href="https://fireflyspace.com/" target="_blank">Firefly Aerospace</a></b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>EXOS Aerospace/John Quinn</b>
+    <b><a href="http://www.flometrics.com/" target="_blank">Flometrics</a>/Steve Harrington</b>
+    on <b>Progress Report: Pistonless Pumps For High-Performance Rocket Propulsion Systems</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Firefly Aerospace</b>
+    <b>Gerald D Nordley</b>
+    on <b>Mass Beam Propulsion, An Overview</b> including <b>Jordin Kare's Sailbeam Concept</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Jeff Greason</b> of <b>Electric Sky</b> will discuss <b>Some Advanced Power Transmission &amp; Space Propulsion Concepts</b>
+    <b>Jeff Greason</b> of <b>Electric Sky</b>
+    will discuss <b>Some Advanced Power Transmission &amp; Space Propulsion Concepts</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Masten Space Systems/Dave Masten</b>
+    <b><a href="https://www.masten.aero/" target="_blank">Masten Space Systems</a>/Dave Masten</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Momentus Space</b>
+    <b><a href="https://momentus.space/development/" target="_blank">Momentus Space</a></b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Jim Muncy/Polispace</b> will discuss <b>Prospective FAA Launch/Reentry Rules Changes</b> and <b>The Washington Space Scene</b>
+    <b>Jim Muncy/Polispace</b> will discuss <b>Prospective FAA Launch/Reentry Rules Changes</b> and <b>The Washington Space Scene</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Rocket Lab/Amanda Stiles, Senior Mission Manager</b>
+    <b><a href="https://www.rocketlabusa.com/" target="_blank">Rocket Lab</a>/Amanda Stiles, Senior Mission Manager</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>John Schilling </b>will discuss <b>Earth Orbit, Cislunar &amp; Mars Practical Payload Capabilities Of Current &amp; Near-Term Launchers</b>
+    <b>John Schilling</b> will discuss <b>Earth Orbit, Cislunar &amp; Mars Practical Payload Capabilities Of Current &amp; Near-Term Launchers</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Rand Simberg</b> will discuss <b>A Co-Orbital Transportation Infrastructure Concept</b>
+    <b>Rand Simberg</b> will discuss <b>A Co-Orbital Transportation Infrastructure Concept</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b><a href="http://ssi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Space Studies Institute</a> </b><strong>Hosted Session</strong>
-    covering SSI's focus area of <strong>How To Get Things Done Once There</strong>, technology and business aspects of habitats, power generation, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.
+    <b><a href="http://ssi.org/" target="_blank">Space Studies Institute</a></b> <b>Hosted Session</b>
+    covering SSI's focus area of <b>How To Get Things Done Once There</b>, technology and business aspects of habitats, power generation, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>SpaceIL</b>
+    <b><a href="http://www.spaceil.com/" target="_blank">SpaceIL</a></b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Henry Spencer </b>&amp; <b>Henry Vanderbilt </b>will discuss <b>Some Likely Characteristics Of Usefully Faster Near-Term Inner Solar-System Space Transports</b>
+    <b>Henry Spencer</b>
+    will discuss <b>Transitioning From Standalone Spaceships To Space Transport Networks</b>
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Jess Sponable</b> will discuss <b>Project History &amp; Management Lessons From DC-X, X-40, and XS-1</b>
+    <b>Henry Spencer</b> &amp; <b>Henry Vanderbilt</b>
+    will discuss <b>Some Likely Characteristics Of Usefully Faster Near-Term Inner Solar-System Space Transports.</b>
+    Thermal rockets aren't practically capable of high enough velocities
+    to minimize cosmic-ray and other slow-transit problems.
+    A look at some near-term approaches that may be usefully
+    faster - and why they may not look at all like you might expect.
     </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Tethers Unlimited</b>
+    <b>Jess Sponable</b> 
+    will discuss <b>Project History &amp; Management Lessons From
+    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X" target="_blank">DC-X</a>,
+    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-40" target="_blank">X-40</a>, and
+    <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-05-24" target="_blank">XS-1</a></b>
+    </span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
+    <b><a href="http://www.tethers.com/Capabilities.pdf" target="_blank">Tethers Unlimited</a></b>
+    </span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
+    <b><a href="http://unreasonablerocket.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Unreasonable Rocket</a></b>/<b>Paul Breed</b>
+    on <b>Development Of A Low-Cost Modular Launcher</b>
+    </span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
+    <b>Pete Worden, Breakthrough Prize Foundation Chairman</b>,
+    on <b>What We Might Do With A StarShot Capability</b>
     </span></li>
 </ul>
 <hr />
-<h2><strong>Panel Discussions Planned So Far</strong></h2>
+
+<h2><strong>Panel Discussions</strong></h2>
 <ul>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Space Startup Party Fouls - </b>Common Startup Errors &amp; How To Avoid Them, as seen by Rocket People (There are a thousand books that will tell you what Venture Capital people look for. Rocket people, not so much...)</span></li>
+    <b>Extremely High-Velocity Propulsion Concepts: A Survey.
+    Jim Benford, Gerry Nordley, Henry Spencer</b>
+    </span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
+    <b>How To Save Civilization and Make a Little Money, or, This Is All Jerry Pournelle's Fault.</b>
+    Recalling Jerry's significant part in the forty-year evolution from "Commercial rockets?
+    Security, get this loon out of my office" to "Commercial rockets?  How much do you want?"
+    Aspects of the story as seen by some who were there.
+    <b>Larry Niven, Gary Hudson, Jim Muncy, Jess Sponable, Henry Vanderbilt</b>
+    </span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
+    <b>Space Startup Party Fouls</b> -
+    Common Startup Errors &amp; How To Avoid Them, as seen by Rocket People.
+    There are a thousand books that will tell you what Venture Capital people look for.
+    Rocket people, not so much.
+    <b>Paul Breed, Ben Brockert, Henry Spencer, Henry Vanderbilt</b>
+    </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>NewSpace Meets Milspace - </b>Both are evolving fast, with overlaps (both business and operational) likely growing with time. Some discussion of what the shared spaces may look like.</span></li>
+    <b>NewSpace Meets Milspace</b> -
+    Both are evolving fast, with overlaps (both business and operational) likely growing with time.
+    Some discussion of what the shared spaces may look like.
+    <b>Bill Bruner, Mitchell Burnside Clapp, Jess Sponable</b>
+    </span></li>
 </ul>
-<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We also plan <b>Subject Concentrations</b> this year on</span></p>
+
+<p style="font-size: 10pt;">
+We also plan <b>Subject Concentrations</b> this year on</p>
 <ul>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>SmallSat Launch Startups</b></span></li>
+    <b>SmallSat Launch Startups</b>
+    </span></li>
 <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
-    <b>Commercial Lunar Cargo Companies</b></span></li>
+    <b>Commercial Lunar Cargo Companies</b>'
+    </span></li>
 </ul>
-<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participants for both currently being recruited - if you haven't yet heard from us, talk to us at <a href="mailto:sa2019program@erps.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sa2019program@erps.org</a></span></p>
-<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're also interested in <b>Student Space Project Presentations</b> - we're reserving a number of short (5-10 minute) timeslots in the <b>main program track</b> for student/amateur presentations on interesting (not necessarily directly access-related) space projects. Contact us at <a href="mailto:sa2019program@erps.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sa2019program@erps.org</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participants for both currently being recruited - if you haven't yet heard from us, talk to us at <a href="mailto:sa2019program@erps.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sa2019program@erps.org</a>
+(or if that doesn't work, email hvanderbilt@mindspring.com)
+</span></p>
+<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're also interested in <b>Student Space Project Presentations</b> - we're reserving a number of short (5-10 minute) timeslots in the <b>main program track</b> for student/amateur presentations on interesting (not necessarily directly access-related) space projects.
+Contact us as above.
+</span></p>
+
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