Lecturer: Brent Barbee, Goddard Space Flight Center
Brent W. Barbee is an Aerospace Engineer in the Navigation and Mission Design Branch of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; he is also adjunct graduate faculty in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The University of Maryland, where he teaches graduate courses. Mr. Barbee supported flight dynamics for launch of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, which launched successfully on September 8th, 2016, is the technical lead for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study (NHATS), is managing work on the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission at GSFC, and conducts research on planetary defense against hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Mr. Barbee is a recipient of NASA’s Early Career Achievement Medal and the AIAA National Capital Section 2012-2013 Hal Andrews Young Engineer/Scientist of the Year Award. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Topic: Rendezvous Navigation: Delta V requirements and mission time
Recommended Readings:
Abell, P.A., Barbee, B. W., Chodas, P. W., Kawaguchi, J., Landis, R. R., Mazanek, D. D., and Michel, P., Human Exploration of Near-Earth Asteroids. In Asteroids IV (pp. 855–880). Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press
Wagner, S., Wie, B., Barbee, B. W., “Target selection for a hypervelocity asteroid intercept vehicle flight validation mission,” Acta Astronautica, Volume 107, February-March, 2015, pages 247-261, ISSN 0094-5765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.11.037
Barbee, B. W., Chodas, P., “Near-Earth Asteroids 2006 RH120 and 2009 BD: Proxies For Maximally Accessible Objects?” AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Paper Number AAS 15-526, Vail, CO, August 9-13, 2015, https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20150020911.pdf
Barbee, B.W., Abell, P.A., Adamo, D. R., Alberding, C. M., Mazanek, D. D., Johnson, L. N., Yeomans, D. K., Chodas, P. W., Chamberlin, A. B., Friedensen, V. P., “The Near-Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Targets Study: An Ongoing Effort to Identify Near-Earth Asteroid Destinations for Human Explorers,” 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, April 15-19, 2013, http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/conf/pdc2013/IAA-PDC13-04-13.pdf
Beckman, M., Barbee, B. W., Williams, B., Williams, K., Sutter, B., Berry, K., “Trajectory and Mission Design for the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) Asteroid Sample Return Mission,” 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, April 15-19, 2013, http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/conf/pdc2013/IAA-PDC13-04-16.pdf
Berry, K., Sutter, B., May, A., Williams, K., Barbee, B. W., Beckman, M., Williams, B., “OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go (TAG) Mission Design and Analysis,” AAS/AIAA Paper AAS 13-095, 36th Annual AAS Guidance and Control Conference, Breckenridge, CO, February 1-6, 2013, https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20130013409.pdf
Barbee, B.W., Esposito, T., Mink, R.G., Adamo, D.R., Pinon, E., Hur-Diaz, S., “A Comprehensive Ongoing Survey of the Near-Earth Asteroid Population for Human Mission Accessibility,” AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 2-5, 2010, http://kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/csc2011/references/asteroids-classification-and-study/A%20Comprehensive%20Ongoing%20Survey%20of%20the%20Near-Earth%20Asteroid%20Population%20for%20the%20Human%20Mission%20Accessibility_Barbee%20et%20al.pdf
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