Abstracts for this session should address breakthrough materials innovations that far exceed state of the art material systems, especially including application of nanomaterials; development or application of smart materials; new materials or processes providing unexpected properties; and recent developments in computational materials science. Of particular interest are papers describing recent or planned applications of these innovative materials.

Nanomaterials – This area focuses on the application of nanomaterials to space systems and missiles, including structures, coatings, electronics, optics, electromagnetic management, and thermal management applications.

Smart Materials – Abstracts are solicited on smart materials including self-ordering, self-assembling, self-monitoring, self-healing/self-repairing, and materials that “change upon command” or have beneficial effects on the aerothermodynamic environment.

New Materials – Abstracts are solicited on the development and/or application of new materials and processes that yield unanticipated properties, significantly improved properties, energy harvesting, unique combinations of properties/ multifunctional materials, or extraordinary property retention in extreme service environments.

Computational Materials Science – This area focuses on developments in computation and modeling that will accelerate and focus materials development.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to reusable long life, operable propulsion, aerostructures, tanks, durable and rapid turn-around thermal protection systems, thermal management, hot structures, seals, and highly reliable active Integrated System Health Monitoring (ISHM) for in-flight trajectory modification and vehicle recovery and turn-around. Presentations on materials and structures that have recently fl own, planned for flight, (i.e., HiSTED, RATTLRS, Falcon HTV-2, HyFly, X-51, Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), Conventional Strike Missile (CSM), etc.), or part of Con-Ops trade studies and are enabling for hypersonic fl ight are encouraged. Focus is on technologies that enable prompt strike capability across the globe.

Hypersonics - Abstracts are solicited on materials and structures activities focused on enabling air-breathing hypersonic fl ight for both acceleration/deceleration and cruise. Topics include materials for propulsion, airframe, and re-entry systems. These include, but are not limited to: combined cycle engines; dual mode, ram-, and scram-jet engines; active cooling; hot structures; leading edges; and acreage thermal protection systems.

Space Launch - This topic refers to space access delivery systems and addresses the materials needed to launch spacecraft relatively quickly at a reasonable cost. The game changer for the DoD is a responsive launcher, liquid and/or solid propulsion based, which could be an expendable, partially reusable, or fully reusable vehicle driving increasingly toward the model of how aircraft operate today.

Global Strike - Materials and structural concepts which support responsive strike architectures which may include launch systems or platforms, delivery systems, and payload. These technologies may touch upon topics of the previous headings but are explicitly tied to a global strike mission.

Abstracts for this session should address key materials technologies, requirements, process improvements, or materials innovations for current and future satellites, spacecraft, or payloads for either commercial or government missions.

Payloads – This area focuses on sensors (signal processing, optics, coatings, semiconductors, detectors, MEMS, and nonlinear optics), optical communications (issues for space), and mirrors (materials options, manufacturing techniques, computational design, materials for deployable structures, and dimensionally stable materials).

Bus Applications – Abstracts are solicited in the areas of structures (deployable, large membranes, lighter weight, ultrahigh strength, smart materials, nanomaterials, durability, and NDE), propulsion, power (generation, storage, or transmission) thermal management, MEMS, survivability (man-made and natural hazards including space weather), radiation hardened materials, health monitoring, energy and power in space, and on-orbiting servicing.

Space Environmental Effects – This area focuses on the performance of prospective spacecraft materials when subjected to the synergistic effects of the space environment. The proposed material topics are thermal control materials/thin films, solar power system materials, optical materials, structural materials, radiation, spacecraft charging, and orbital debris issues.

The focus of this session is to present and review initial findings following the retrieval of specimens from the Materials on the International Space Station Experiments -6 (MISSE-6) and initial active data from MISSE-7 and data not previously presented from earlier MISSE missions. The finding’s impact on materials development, selection, qualification, and plans for further study should be discussed. The forum also offers the opportunity for materials scientists, engineers, and designers to review and critically assess the results with regard to significance, relevance, and respective impact to spacecraft design practices. Topical areas for paper submission include, but are not limited to the following:

• Summarize fl ights, duration, exposure conditions, scope, significant lessons, external factors/limitations, for MISSE-6
• Active experiment design and performance
• Thermal control / protection materials / thin films
• Solar power system materials
• Optical materials
• Structural materials
• Ongoing and future experiments (MISSE-7, PRELSE, and beyond)