NSMMS & CRASTE

Call For Abstracts

The Call for Abstracts for 2020 APS4DS has concluded. If you would like to submit an abstract to be considered for an alternate talk, your work will be submitted to the committee for consideration.

What is an alternate talk? If we have cancellations, alternates are invited to speak to fill open slots. Please note that there is no guarantee a presentation slot will be made available to you and no specific time for notification. Alternates are offered speaking slots as cancellations occur and as they are deemed appropriate to backfill a cancelled slot.

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The agenda for this conference will include all topics related to power for deep space missions to the Moon and beyond. Submittals for both full talks and posters will be accepted. In addition to general conference sessions, targeted sessions will include:

Topics This Year Include:

This topic addresses the overall power systems and architectures for small and large spacecraft, as well as surface power architectures.

  • Power management and distribution for deep space orbiters, fly-by missions landers and probes
  • Design and analysis of high reliability power systems across all mission classes (from CubeSats and SmallSats to flagship missions)
  • Power system designs for current and planned deep space missions, and new mission concepts
  • Power regulation and load leveling of spacecraft power buses
  • Distributed and point of load conversion architectures
  • Approaches to fault tolerance in power systems
  • High voltage, high power architectures
  • Solar electric propulsion architectures
  • Lunar power architectures (Gateway, surface power, in situ resource utilization)

This topic addresses power electronics, particularly the areas of power switching and conversion.

  • High efficiency dc-dc converters and power switches
  • Design, reliability, and radiation effects for wide-bandgap semiconductors
  • Digital control for spacecraft applications
  • High voltage and PPU power electronics
  • Reliability and radiation effects in EEE, COTS, and automotive components
  • 3D and advanced packaging techniques for spacecraft applications
  • Radiation-hardened controller IC development
  • Distribution and cabling design and testing

This topic addresses current power source technologies, and development of advanced technologies.

  • Advanced solar cell designs and technologies (multi-junction, III-V, II-VI materials)
  • Advanced solar cell materials development (perovskites, etc.)
  • Low irradiance/low temperature (LILT) solar array designs
  • Solar array modeling and testing
  • Solar concentrator designs
  • Thin film photovoltaics
  • Rigid deployable and lightweight solar array structures
  • Thermoelectric materials and device development
  • Thermoelectric converter/generator technology and testing
  • Radioisotope thermoelectric generator testing and operations
  • New and modified radioisotope heat sources
  • Dynamic conversion system development and testing (Stirling, Brayton)
  • Fission power systems and technologies
  • Small power sources (radioisotope based, alpha-voltaics, beta-voltaics)

This topic addresses energy storage for primary power and rechargeable systems for load leveling/peak power/eclipse requirements.

  • Primary cell chemistries (Li/SO2, Li/SOCl2, Li/MnO2, Li/CFx and Li/CFx-MnO2)
  • Primary battery/module design
  • Thermal batteries
  • COTS and custom battery cell selection, testing and space qualification
  • Rechargeable cell chemistries (Li-ion) for space
  • Li-ion battery pack design
  • Safe, high reliability, thermal propagation resistant battery module development
  • High specific energy/high power “Beyond Li” battery technologies
  • Battery performance, state-of-charge determination and lifetime modeling
  • Supercapacitors (electrochemical double-layer capacitors, asymmetric capacitors)
  • Primary and regenerative fuel cells (PEM, SOFC)
  • Flywheels

This topic encompasses all aspect of power systems and technologies as relates to the unique challenges of the deep space environment.

  • Design and development of components for extreme environments
  • Wide temperature operation
  • High radiation environments
  • Low irradiance/low temperature deep space conditions
  • Design for long life/high reliability in deep space environment
  • Evaluation of radiation on power components and sub-systems
  • Power technologies for ocean worlds exploration and sub-surface access/exploration

This topic focuses on advanced/emerging concepts in power technologies for deep space applications.

  • Novel energy harvesting concepts and designs (piezoelectric, magnetic fields, etc.)
  • Fusion power systems
  • Thermionic and thermophotovoltaic technologies
  • Alkali-metal thermoelectric converter (AMTEC) technology
  • Power beaming
  • In situ derived energy and power sources
  • Combined chemical heat/power sources