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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Monday, 11/Dec/2023
9:30am - 10:30am	Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:30am - 10:45am	Opening remarks
10:45am - 11:15am	Keynote1: Elena Eyngorn, Exolaunch
11:15am - 12:00pm	Plenary 1: Making and keeping space accessible Chair: Artur Scholz, LibreCube non-profit 11:15am - 11:30am Making Space Accessible Means Engaging Young Minds Kelsey Fraser Truran, Zoé Dagenais, Mike G. Lipsett, Carlos F. Lange, Steven Knudsen, Ian R. Mann, Thomas Ganley 11:30am - 11:45am A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Neural Network Design for Onboard Deployment in Space Wouter Benoot 11:45am - 12:00pm Numerical Demise Investigation of the CubeSat SOURCE in preparation for Plasma Wind Tunnel and In-Situ Experiments Paul Jannik Haufe, Daniel Galla, Clemens Kaiser
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm	Plenary 2: Cubesat Subsystems and Technologies Chair: Alexander Kinnaird, European Space Agency 1:00pm - 1:15pm Active Spacecraft Potential Control for CubeSats Johanna Fries, Joachim Gerger, Florin Plesescu, Martin Eizinger, Bernhard Seifert 1:15pm - 1:30pm Modular Software Framework Enabling Autonomous CubeSat Operations through Artificial Intelligence Johan Lennart Westin 1:30pm - 1:45pm EDGX-1: Expanding Horizons with a Heterogeneous Neuromorphic DPU for Onboard AI in CubeSats Nick Destrycker, Wouter Benoot, João Matias 2:00pm - 2:15pm CubeSpec: Development of the payload control system Sibo Van Gool, Bart Vandenbussche, Gert Raskin, Hugues Sana
2:15pm - 3:00pm	Plenary 3: Telecommunication and Ground Segment Chair: Jan Thoemel, University of Luxembourg Implementation of the ECSS PLUTO Language in Python Artur Scholz, Vidit Jain, Rajkumar Dongre, Christoph Buchner Skylink: Open and Robust Space-to-Ground Protocol for Small Satellites Petri Niemelä, Markus Hiltunen, Jaan Praks Tau - a formation of CubeSats for GNSS-reflectometry Earth Observation Anes Belkeiri, Jan Thoemel
3:00pm - 4:30pm	Poster Session & Coffee Integration study of a novel UHF compact antenna in UC3M’s ST3LLARsat1 Boira 2U CubeSat Juan María Herrera Martín, Sandra Santiago Mesas, María Rodríguez Villar, Brais García García, Alison Ponche, Andrés Marcos, Daniel Segovia Vargas Conceptualization and Specification of the Machine-to-Machine Payload System on NIMPH Satellite for IoT-Based Medical Monitoring Applications Frederic Camps, Thomas Boursac, Ghada Gharbi, Khalil Drira, Romain Boyer EarthNext CubeSat Mission: enabling Multispectral Earth Observation from Very Low Earth Orbit Lorenzo Iannascoli, Emanuele Piersanti, Andrea Turella, Giuseppe Leccese, Silvia Natalucci, Marco Di Clemente, Roberto Luciani, Marianna Rinaldi, Matteo Duzzi, Giuseppe Capuano, Maria Daniela Graziano, Vito Fortunato, Pietro De Marchi CubeSpec: 4U Thermal insensitive Cassegrain telescope for CubeSats Jeroen De Maeyer, Gert Raskin, Bart Vandenbussche, Dirk Vandepitte, Azzurra Bigioli CubeSats in formation for Earth Observation Laurent Paucot, Eliott Hubin CubeSpec Optical Payload Gert Raskin, Jeroen De maeyer, Jakob Pember, Bart Vandenbussche Using MDOA to find a suitable electric propulsion solution Tzu-Chiao Lin, Chung-Huan LIU Development and Validation of a Magnetorquer based AOCS for the 3U+ CubeSat Mission SOURCE Justus Michael Paul Goll, Paul Jannik Haufe, Christian Luckas, Marlin Kanzow Onboard Packet Transfer Protocol of Robusta 3U and 12U Platforms Pablo Boizeau, Amaury Knockaert, Jean-Roch Vaille, Angela Franco, Rafael Duarte, Laurent Dusseau Reconfiguration of microcontroller payload driver Frederic Camps, Romain Boyer, Cyril Campanella UC3M’s ST3LLARsat1 BOIRA: Baseline Design Review study and analyses for the ADCS and OBC subsystems Ghasem Sharifi, Sergio Cuevas, Laura Train, Alison Ponche, Andrés Marcos Launcher Selection by Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method (MCDM) for CubeSats KORAY BAYRAKTAR DAPHNE: designing a low-cost, multi-mission 3U CubeSat Raffaele Minichini, Maria Daniela Graziano, Valerio Striano, Claudia Guerra, Flavia Migliaccio, Francesca Pelliccia, Giuseppe Puleo, Tobia Armando La Marca AQUALIS: Affordable Quality Images from Space Jeroen De Maeyer, Wim De Munter, Leonardo Peri, Dirk Vandepitte CubeSat-Based Experiment for Reactivating Desiccated Bacteria in Microgravity Dominik Klement, Adam Hláčik, Jakub Macejko, Matej Borovička, David Sedláček, Václav Lazar, Katarína Molnárová A modular Flight Software for CubeSats to support multiple missions Mukesh Jha, Abdul Halim Jallad, Mohammed Almehrzi, Abdullah Alsalmani, Omar Alawadhi, Teana Mohamed, Mariam Al Kuwaiti CubeSpec Mission Analysis Pierre Royer, Tjorven Delabie, Bart Vandenbussche, Dominic Bowman, Hugues Sana, Gert Raskin, Jorden Windey, Thijs Verhaeghe, Andrew Tkachenko, Johan Morren, Maddalena Reggiani Luxembourg Ice Cap Earth Observation by Reflectometry (LICEOR) Mission Liz Schreiner, Jan Thoemel, Lina Amaya, Ahmed Baahmed, Kushaldas Badhan, Kevin Biewesch, Laura Chikosman, Aelyn Chong, Alexandre Frantz, Sumit Goski, Carla Muttoni, Misbah Rashid, Patrick Teyssier Design, structural and thermal analysis a 6U nanosatellite system for earth observation Konstantinos Panagiotis Bouzoukis, Vaios Lappas, Vassilis Kostopoulos Quick-Turnaround Environmental Testing Facilities for CubeSat Systems and Subsystems Martin Eizinger, Andreas Siegl, Bernhard Seifert, Johanna Fries, Markus Hatzenbichler, Wolfgang Treberer-Treberspurg, Carsten Scharlemann New instrumental models for mutual impedance experiments and quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy in magnetized plasma Pietro Dazzi, Pierre Henri, Karine Issautier Design and development of deployable solar panel for a CubeSat hand-on training package (CHTP) Ali Aboudaya Author Antonios Kotsikaris Space Weather and solar flares X-ray polarimetry with the two CubeSat constellation CUSP Sergio Fabiani, Giovanni Lombardi A 22 nm 15 mW AI Accelerator to Enable On-Orbit Neural Network Inference for low-end CubeSats Bert Boons, Ehab Ibrahim, Jaro De Roose, Ninad Jadhav, Stijn Hoskens, Gert Dekkers, Jasper Wouters, Ying Cao An Aerodynamically Controlled Cross-track Tethered CubeSat System for Remote Sensing Applications Stefano Aliberti, Marcello Romano
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Plenary 4: Flight Dynamics and AOCS Chair: Dirk Vandepitte, Professor, KULeuven Design of a Low Micro Vibration High Precision CubeSat Reaction Wheel Cedric Cuypers, Rhimas Van de Putte, Tjorven Delabie, Jelle Lanting, Wim De Munter, Lubna Hamid High-Precision-Pointing-Platform for the CubeSpec mission Leonardo Peri, Jeroen De Maeyer, Wim De Munter, Dirk Vandepitte Compact low-noise magnetic bearing reaction wheels for CubeSats: a model-based performance analysis Mante Baekeland, Jelle Lanting, Cedric Cuypers, Tjorven Delabie, Konstantinos Gryllias, Dirk Vandepitte Analysis of the impact of star catalog thinning on resource-limited star trackers performance Paulo Kemper, Mikael Marin, Hyosang Yoon Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbench for ADCS of Robusta 3U and 12U Platforms Gary Quinsac, Theo Guillerme, Tristan Allain, Angela Franco, Rafael Duarte, Laurent Dusseau Assessing impact of solar array configurations for VIBES Pioneer Christopher Grün, Nils Goossens, Antonio Garcia
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Welcome drink Leuven Town Hall Grote Markt 9, 3000 Leuven

Date: Tuesday, 12/Dec/2023
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 9:30am	Keynote 2: Prof. Marcello Romano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy, & Naval Postgraduate School, USA) Dynamics, guidance and control of small satellite Rendez-vous and Proximity maneuvers: analysis, simulations and experiments
9:30am - 10:30am	Plenary 5: Very Low Earth Orbit Chair: Damien Le Quang, von karman institute 9:30am - 9:45am IonSat: An Iodine-Propelled CubeSat In Very Low Earth Orbit Aurélien Genin, Maël Lavialle, Romain Galinié, Alexandre Touroude 9:45am - 10:00am Development of a payload prototype aimed at studying the degradation of solar cells on IonSat satellite Ludovic Delvaux, Gilles Scheen, Ricardo Colpari-Carrizo, Amandine Denis 10:00am - 10:15am Enabling long duration CubeSat missions in VLEO with air-breathing electric propulsion Vittorio Giannetti, Eugenio Ferrato, Tommaso Andreussi 10:15am - 10:30am EarthNext CubeSat Mission: enabling Multispectral Earth Observation from Very Low Earth Orbit Lorenzo Iannascoli, Emanuele Piersanti, Andrea Turella, Giuseppe Leccese, Silvia Natalucci, Marco Di Clemente, Roberto Luciani, Marianna Rinaldi, Matteo Duzzi, Giuseppe Capuano, Maria Daniela Graziano, Vito Fortunato, Pietro De Marchi, Tobia Armando La Marca
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break & poster session
11:00am - 12:00pm	Plenary 6: Earth Observation missions and instruments Chair: Bart Vandenbussche, KU Leuven 11:00am - 11:15am Enhancing the Monitoring of Critical Undersea Infrastructures with CubeSats Domenico Gaglione, Giovanni Soldi, Leonardo Maria Millefiori, Enrica d'Afflisio, Paolo Braca, Sandro Carniel, Giovanni Sembenini 11:15am - 11:30am SUPER-RESOLUTION OF A SINGLE BAND SWIR SATELLITE IMAGERY USING UNSUPERVISED DEEP LEARNING. ‪Yakov Geltser‬‏, Shimrit Maman, Stanley Rotman, Dan G. Blumberg, Ofer Hadar, Itai Dror, Divya Mishra, Daniel Choukroun, Alexander Shyriayev 11:30am - 11:45am Formation of a GNSS network in space based on CubeSat constellations Lukas Müller, Markus Rothacher, Benedikt Soja 11:45am - 12:00pm Enhancing GNSS-reflectometry Earth Observation through a CubeSat Formation Jan Thoemel, Maxime Drouguet, Sajad Tabibi, Dimitri Lederer, Sebastien Lambot, Christophe Craeye
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Plenary 7: Novel Scientific Instruments / Sensors on Cubesats Chair: Bart Vandenbussche, KU Leuven 12:00pm - 12:15pm The scientific payload on-board the HERMES Pathfinder mission Yuri Evangelista, Riccardo Campana, Fabrizio Fiore, Alejandro Guzman, Giulia Baroni 12:15pm - 12:30pm GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical observatory András Pál, Jakub Řípa, Norbert Werner, László Mészáros, Masanori Ohno 12:30pm - 12:45pm A Compact Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detector for a CubeSat: The CLUGAS demonstrator Anja Kohfeldt, Ramsey Al Jebali, Deniz Ölçek, Gunnar Mæhlum
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm - 6:30pm	Technical visits The participants will be invited to chose among 4 possibilities: - von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (30 participants) - Centre Spatiale de Liège - ULiège (CSL) (20 participants) - Redwire Space - Formerly QinetiQ Space (30 participants) - ESA Academy’s Fly Your Satellite!: An Interactive Journey into Educational CubeSat Projects (25 STUDENT participants)
7:00pm - 11:00pm	Gala dinner

Date: Wednesday, 13/Dec/2023
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 10:45am	Plenary 8: Cubesat Missions Chair: Luca Bucciantini, CSEP, LPP, Ecole Polytechnique 9:00am - 9:15am AetherSat-1: Design exploration of a CubeSat re-entry mission with an inflatable Thermal Protection System Roemer Spreij, Witse Janssens, Michiel Wauters, Ariël Verschueren, Tom Van Steenbergen, Valentijn De Smedt, Jurgen Vanhamel 9:15am - 9:30am CubeSpec: Mission overview Bart Vandenbussche, Gert Raskin, Hugues Sana, Dirk Vandepitte, Jeroen De Maeyer, Pierre Royer, Sibo Van Gool, Jorden Windey, Philippe Neuville, Dominic Bowman, Andrew Tkachenko, Johan Morren, Jake Pember, Maddalena Reggiani, Wim De Munter, Maarten Kempenaers, Leonardo Peri, Jelle Lanting, Bram Vandoren, Tjorven Delabie, Philippe Saey, Arne Verhoeven 9:30am - 9:45am CubeSats in formation for Earth Observation Laurent Paucot, Eliott Hubin 9:45am - 10:00am CLIMB: A CubeSat mission to the Van Allen Belt Carsten Scharlemann, Wolfgang Treberspurg, Fabian Hauser, Alexander Spaniol, Andreas Stren, Elias Baumhackl, Abhishek Goswami, Kaarel Repän, David Placke, Bernhard Seifert, Christoph Tscherne, Peter Beck, Michael Taraba 10:00am - 10:15am From paper to space: Testing Origami-Inspired Structures Ines Uriol Balbin, Ester Velazquez Navarro, Pablo Solano Lopez 10:15am - 10:30am UC3M’s ST3LLARsat1 Boira CubeSat: Thermal Control Subsystem evolution from concept to baseline design Carlos García Gómez, Miguel Cruzat Hurtado, Alison Ponche, Antonio Acosta Iborra, Andrés Marcos Esteban 10:30am - 10:45am FAULT TOLERANT ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM FOR FORESAIL CUBESATS Kiril Dmitrievich Cheremetiev, Petri Niemelä, Bruce Clayhills, Jaan Praks
10:45am - 11:15am	Coffee break & poster session
11:15am - 11:45am	Keynote3: Alexander Kinnaird, ESA Education Office, ESA Academy CubeSats and the European Space Agency
11:45am - 12:45pm	Plenary 9: CubeSat testing Chair: Artur Scholz, LibreCube non-profit 11:45am - 12:00pm Adapting Existing Testing Standards to Improve CubeSat Operational Flexibility Concerning Thermal Qualifications with an Educational Focus Bastian Kraemer, Jonas Meth, Klemens Boltenhagen, Natascha Bonidis, Luc Joel Rajer, Philipp Hoffmann, Justus Goll, Daniel Galla, Sabine Klinkner 12:00pm - 12:15pm Lessons learned from the qualification campaign of SARA, an autonomous and cost-effective Solar Array Drive Assembly for CubeSats Michal Grendysz, Slawomir Malkowski, Filippo Oggionni 12:15pm - 12:30pm Challenges in Predicting Thermal Behaviour of a CubeSat in Thermal-Vacuum Test Letícia Araújo, Manuel Santos, João Paulo Monteiro, Joana Sá, Loris Franchi, Rui M. Rocha 12:30pm - 12:45pm Lessons learned from the ISTSat-1 ambient test campaign João P.L. Monteiro, Joana Sá, Rafael Branco, Manuel Santos, Rui M. Rocha
12:45pm - 1:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Plenary 10: CubeSat propulsion Chair: Thierry Magin, VKI / ULB 1:45pm - 2:00pm Field Emission Electric Propulsion for CubeSats Johanna Fries, Laura Bettiol, Martin Eizinger, Bernhard Seifert, David Krejci 2:00pm - 2:15pm Preliminary Design Study of a Water Electrolysis Propulsion System for the ForeSail-2 CubeSat Mission Sascha Dengler, Sören Heizmann, Chiara Panozzo, Marius Anger, Chiara Manfletti, Jaan Praks 2:15pm - 2:30pm Angular Distribution of an Electrospray Thruster Plume by Image Processing and Machine Learning Erica Lopedote, Patrick Queeckers, Carlo Saverio Iorio
2:30pm - 3:15pm	Plenary 11: Beyond Earth: Space Exploration Missions with Cubesat Chair: Gilles BAILET, University of Glasgow 2:30pm - 2:45pm Towards autonomous CubeSat navigation with Deep Learning features extraction Armando La Rocca, Francesco Rossi, Mattia Varile, Federico Fontana, Francesco Tosetti, Ilaria Bloise, Lorenzo Feruglio, Mattia Pugliatti, Carmine Buonagura, Francesco Topputo, Aurel Zeqaj, Marco Zannoni, Mauro Cardone 2:45pm - 3:00pm Preliminary design of a stand-alone Mars CubeSat mission Héctor Juan Marí, Ron Noomen, Jan Thimo Grundmann, Tra-Mi Ho 3:00pm - 3:15pm The LUMIO Lunar CubeSat: Mission Overview and Optical Navigation Experiment Felice Piccolo, Carmine Buonagura, Antonio Rizza, Alessandro Martinelli, Salvatore Borgia, Paolo Panicucci, Gianmario Merisio, Carmine Giordano, Vittorio Franzese, Fabio Ferrari, Francesco Topputo
3:15pm - 3:30pm	Closing remarks

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