NASA Future In-Space Operations: MOBIUS – Supersynchronous Earth Orbits for Lunar Missions
Now available is the November 16, 2016 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Madhu Thangavelu (USC) who presented “MOBIUS – Supersynchronous Earth Orbits for Lunar Missions.”
Madhu Thangavelu conducts the ASTE527 graduate Space Exploration Architectures Concept Synthesis Studio in the Department of Astronautical Engineering within the Viterbi School of Engineering, and he is also a graduate thesis adviser in the School of Architecture at USC.
He holds degrees in both engineering and architecture and has contributed extensively to concepts in space architecture, especially dealing with extraterrestrial development. He is the author or co- author of over 70 technical papers in space architecture, as well as numerous articles in space related trade journals and magazines dealing with space stations, lunar base design and human factors. He is a co-author of the book The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement(1999) published by John Wiley and Sons and second edition by Springer/Praxis in 2007.
He is the invited author of the chapter “Living on the Moon” in the Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by John Wiley and Sons in 2010 and the on-line second edition updated in 2012. He is a member of the USC team that won the consecutive NASA NIAC Phase I award in 2011 and Phase II award in 2012 for advancing robotic building technologies for extraterrestrial construction. Madhu is an alumnus of the inaugural session of the International Space University at MIT where he proposed the MALEO concept for lunar landers and is on the faculty of the International Space University.
He is a former AIAA officer, having served as Vice Chair for Education in the Los Angeles section. Madhu is a consultant to NASA, the space and entertainment industry. He is on the editorial board of the Moon Society and the Journal of Space Philosophy.
Listen to podcast of “MOBIUS – Supersynchronous Earth Orbits for Lunar Missions” telecon:
– Download the MP3 File.
– Download the presentation (PDF).
