1137h
Frank Peri
Exploration technology development programme manager
Rehashing overall Constellation goals
Meeting critical near-term Orion crew exporation vehicle technologies, Ares launch vehicles and EVA
Work is moving tech from TRL 3 to 6, demos in labs and putting them into subsystems and vacuum chambers
Also developing ISS physical science experiments
ETDP started as 22 projects and was "customer orientated" and number of projects reduced
Langley Research Center based with $250 to $400 million annual bdget
Customer supplier agreements for all projects to ensure ETDP provides flight element what they need when they need it
This programme is a precursor to what Constellation needs in the future
Working on, for Orion, ablative TPS, life support, and others
Ares structures and materials, health management and propulsion
Altair, propulsion, cryogenic fluid management, avionics, autonomous landing and hazard avoidance
Altair autonomous landing will involve three phases that ovrlap with sensors for controlling descent through imaging, RADAR and LIDAR
Combustion and fluids integrated racks on ISS used for experiments and vehicle cabin air monitor also opportunities for validating technologies for Constellation
will field test and have field tested rovers
will demo ISRU capabilities in Hawaii later this year
investigating partnerships with British and Japanese
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