{"500841":{"#nid":"500841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Student Speaks at June JANNAF Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe scholarship of GT-AE\u0026nbsp;graduate student Jonathan Walker was featured during the 62nd Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) conference, held June 1-5 in Nashville, TN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMentored by GT-AE professor Dr. Mitchell Walker (\u003Cem\u003Eno relation\u003C\/em\u003E), Jonathan Walker presented\u0026nbsp; \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Walker%2C%20Johnny-JANNAF%20abstract.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElectrical Facility Effects on Hall Effect Thrusters: Electron Termination\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0022 based on a paper he co-authored with Dr. Walker and others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This investigation experiementally quantifies the impact of observed in-flight behavior on the Hall Current Thruster [HCT] plume in a ground based testing environment,\u0022 wrote the younger Walker, a graduate research assistant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJANNAF focuses on the technology, development, and production capabilities for all types of propulsion systems and energetics for tactical, strategic and missile defense rockets and missiles, for space boost and orbit transfer, for in-space propulsion, and for gun systems. The June conference brought together government agencies, industry partners, and academic researchers\u0026nbsp; to present and discuss the nation\u0027s leading issues regarding propulsion related technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Presenting at JANNAF means that Georgia Tech aerospace researchers are working on state-of-the-art technologies and are tackling the most relevant problems facing propulsion community,\u0022 noted\u0026nbsp;Dr. Walker, who heads up the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mwalker.gatech.edu\/hpepl\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHigh-Powered Electric Propulsion\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HPEP)\u0026nbsp;lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is considered a great privilege and honor for a graduate student to present at such a conference.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Dr. Walker and graduate student Jonathan Walker, the co-authors on this paper are: Samuel J. Langendorf, a GT-AE\u0026nbsp;graduate student; Vadim Khayms (Lockheed Martin Space Systems); and David King \u0026amp; Peter Peterson (Aerojet Rocketdyne).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The scholarship of GT-AE graduate student Jonathan Walker was featured during the 62nd Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) conference, held June 1-5 in Nashville, TN."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-15 17:23:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"500851":{"id":"500851","type":"image","title":"Jonathan Walker","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Jonathan Walker","file":{"fid":"204710","name":"walker-johnny.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walker-johnny_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walker-johnny_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1321108,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/walker-johnny_0.jpg?itok=4R_D6rLl"}}},"media_ids":["500851"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"135441","name":"JANNAF"},{"id":"169921","name":"Jonathan Walker"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}