[Sea-d-dor] FW: ESA Participation in CCSDS D-DOR working group

[Shames, Peter M (312B)]

Dear SEA D-DOR team,

I am sure that you are all aware that Jim Border will not be able to attend the fall meeting and that Chris Jacobs from JPL will be attending instead.   I also just heard from our colleagues at ESA that Mr Javier de Vicente will be joining the team to replace Mattia Mercolino (see below).  Please welcome him to the WG.

Since Jim Border is the current WG chair, and he will not be able to attend, it will be up to you to identify a WG chair pro tem.  I know that most of you already know one another and do not expect this to be a challenge.  If you wish me to participate in WG discussions to help you over this hurdle please let me know and I will make myself available for as much time as it needed.

Best regards, Peter


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Peter Shames
CCSDS Systems Engineering Area Director

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 301-490
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

Telephone: +1 818 354-5740,  Fax: +1 818 393-6871

Internet:  Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov
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We must recognize the strong and undeniable influence that our language exerts on our ways of thinking and, in fact, delimits the abstract space in which we can formulate - give form to - our thoughts.

Niklaus Wirth


From: Klaus-Juergen Schulz <Klaus-Juergen.Schulz at esa.int>
Date: Friday, August 17, 2018 at 3:05 AM
To: Peter Shames <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Michael.McKay at esa.int" <Michael.McKay at esa.int>, Wallace Tai <wallace.s.tai at jpl.nasa.gov>, "Javier.DeVicente at esa.int" <Javier.DeVicente at esa.int>, "Marco.Lanucara at esa.int" <Marco.Lanucara at esa.int>
Subject: Re: ESA Participation in CCSDS D-DOR working group

Dear Peter,

After the departure of Mattia we had to re-organise within division, and I have the pleasure to announce that Mr Javier de Vicente will represent ESA in the WG from now on. He will also attend the Berlin meeting.

I hope that this will put the WG again on stable grounds that will allow to progress effectively like in the past.

Best Regards,

Klaus-Juergen




From:        "Shames, Peter M (312B)" <peter.m.shames at jpl.nasa.gov>
To:        Klaus-Juergen Schulz <Klaus-Juergen.Schulz at esa.int>, "michael.mckay at esa.int" <michael.mckay at esa.int>
Cc:        "Tai, Wallace S (9000)" <wallace.s.tai at jpl.nasa.gov>
Date:        16/08/2018 20:47
Subject:        ESA Participation in CCSDS D-DOR working group
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Dear Klaus-Juergen and Michael,



As I think you are both aware, ESA has had a long involvement in the Delta-DOR Working Group within the CCSDS Systems Engineering Area.  Most recently ESA led the WG and that was the case until Mattia Mercolino changed position.  Mattia did a great job of leading this work and we proposed that ESA continue in this role, but it seemed that you did not have anyone who was ready to step into it. As a consequence we have appointed one of the long term D-DOR experts, James Border, instead.



Reaching out like this to you is somewhat unusual, and for many of the CCSDS WGs, which are well populated and more "popular", it is not necessary.  In this case the core of the WG has always just been ESA, JAXA, and NASA, with each agency sending one knowledgeable participant.  Having this "triumvirate" as the core of the WG has allowed us to make good progress and for other agencies to come and sit in as they find an interest.  On the other hand, in the absence of these three core agencies, we usually cannot meet since we no longer have an effective working quorum.



We had expectations that ESA would have a knowledgeable individual who could represent the ESA interests in developing these critical standards for deep space navigation.  The WG is now developing the next generation of higher precision signaling, and we assume that you would have an interest in this.  Do you have a candidate in mind who will be supporting this work at the up-coming meeting?



NASA itself has an issue in that James Border will not be able to participate, but we have a very experienced alternate, Chris Jacobs, who will attend, and James has been coaching him on what is needed.  Chris is the VLBI Quasar Catalog lead here at JPL, and has worked with both Mattia and Hiroshi in the past.



Would you please indicate if you have someone else in mind to support this work and if they will be able to attend the Fall working meetings in Berlin.



Very best regards, Peter Shames





________________________________________________________

Peter Shames
CCSDS Systems Engineering Area Director

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 301-490
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

Telephone: +1 818 354-5740,  Fax: +1 818 393-6871

Internet:  Peter.M.Shames at jpl.nasa.gov
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