Artificial Planetary Magnetic Fields: Mars and Earth

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The presentation will discuss two alternatives for protecting Mars (or Earth) via an artificial magnetic field.

1. A single (or two) large copper toroids at the Mars L1 LaGrange Point.  Credit: Brandon Weigel, Giving Mars a Magnetosphere
2. A series of high temperature superconducting rings: twelve (12), eight (8), six (6), four (4) or two (2) latitudinal superconducting rings spaced 180/12, 180/8, 180/6, 180/4 or 180/2 deg @ Earth/Mars.  Credit: Motojima et Yanagi, Feasibility of Artificial Geomagnetic Field Generation by a Superconducting Ring Network


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  • Date: 18 Feb 2020
  • Time: 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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  • 1745 West Nursery Road
  • Linthicum, Maryland
  • United States 21090
  • Building: National Electronics Museum
  • Room Number: Library
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  • Starts 28 January 2020 03:00 PM
  • Ends 18 February 2020 12:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
  • No Admission Charge

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Tim Cash

Topic:

Artificial Planetary Magnetic Fields: Mars and Earth

Biography:

Timothy Cash holds Bachelor’s Degree Physics/Mathematics, Indiana University with Master’s course work and thesis in Electro-Optics, University Houston Clear Lake.  He has over 39 years of increasing responsibility in optical fiber and RF cable, connectors, hardware and systems engineering.  His work include:

Terrestrial harsh environment, undersea, and outer space cable design/manufacture;

 

Undersea cables/optical fiber video system for Hydra-2500 deep diving ROV;

 

All Optical Towed Array (AOTA) geophysical streamer IRAD, successful sea trial five sensor array.

 

SONET optical fiber networks, Impedance Test Set for Telco Copper in the Loop;

 

Helicopter Mast Mounted Site, space shuttle, International Space Station, Delta-4 Launch Complexes-ER/WR, provided mission support. Environmental Test ISS Payload, DARPA Blackjack proposal effort, Impedance test set copper in the loop (Central Office);

 

DoD Active RFID Tag Satellite Tag Baseline Test ISO 18000-7 standard;

 

Systems engineering support-TDRS Ground Station, Blossom Point, MD;

 

LTE User Equipment/Base Station Interference onto NOAA satellite up/down links L-Band, S- Band, provided 80 page report;

 

Conducted Baseline Testing-FAA Navigation Systems Signal in Space (DME/VOR) NAS wide;

 

Air quality sensor testing: ENSCO DHS contract for BIO Sensor System;

 

Supported IEEE Software Defined Radio, Weather Station and Brain to Computer Interface Workshops

 

Support of RADAR system flight test at Northrop Grumman, Baltimore-current position.




Agenda

5:30 - 6:00: Social

6:00 - 7:00: Presentation

7:00 - 7:30: Questions and wrap up