Day 1 - April 22

9 AM PDT – 5 PM PDT

9 AM to 10 AM — Welcome & Keynote

9 AM — Welcome and Keynote Introduction

Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

9:10 AM — Keynote Address

Danielle McCulloch, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate


 10 AM to 10:20 AM — Break


10:20 AM to 12:00 PM — Session 1

10:20 AM — TechEdSat-11 Mission Summary and Survey of Upcoming TES-n Missions

Marcus Murbach, NASA Ames Research Center

10:40 AM — ANSER cluster - Resilience and innovation after one year in orbit

César Arza-González, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)

11:00 AM — From Classroom to Orbit: How a High School Girls-in-STEM Club Started the Journey of Pleiades Orpheus

Diya Dalal, Irvington High School

11:20 AM — Formation Flying of the ANSER Cluster of CubeSats using Differential Drag Control

Iván Castro-Fernández, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)

11:40 AM — CubeSat Development: enthusiasm, clock reset and collective intimacy for innovation

Paris Chrysos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)


12:00 PM to 1:00 PM — Lunch


1:00 PM to 2:40 PM — Session 2

1:00 PM — New Generation of Communication and Radar Transceivers for CubeSats

Naresh Deo, Visionary Solutions

1:20 PM — WashU Satellite Presents a Ground Station: Design and Lessons Learned

Owen Cromly, WashU Satellite, Washington University in St. Louis

1:40 PM — Ground Station Communications: A 3U CubeSat Co-Developed by Undergraduates Through IMAP Collaboration

Aaron Estrada, Sonoma State University Edeon

2:00 PM — Laser Crosslink Experiment: Post-Mission Review

Sean Stanko, Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific

2:20 PM — LEO to GEO Communications from Concept to On Orbit Mission Success

Thom Stone, NASA Ames Research Center


2:40 PM to 3:00 PM — Break


3:00 PM to 5:00 PM — Session 3

3:00 PM — Simple and easy-handling propulsion system using water as a propellant

Yuichi Nakagawa, Pale Blue Inc.

3:20 PM — Deployable Boom Technologies for CubeSats and SmallSats

Alexi Rakow, MMA space

3:40 PM — Low Energy CubeSat Vapor Propulsion and Attitude Control System for VLEO

Abigail Parker, United States Naval Academy

4:00 PM — Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) Demonstration

Elwood Agasid, NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program

4:20 PM — Innovative Drag-Based Maneuvering and Deorbiting Techniques for CubeSats: Insights from the Axient Space IGOR Mission

Erik Long, Orbotic Systems Inc.

4:40 PM — SolarSURFER: Solar Sailing Revisited

Arya Kazemnia, Johns Hopkins University, University of Marlyand College Park, Olin College of Engineering

5:00 PM — Closing Remarks


6:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Networking Dinner at SLO Brew Rock

(855 Aerovista Ln, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401)