CubeSat Industry Days 2017

13 Jun 2017, 09:00 → 15 Jun 2017, 16:30 Europe/Amsterdam

Newton (ESA/ESTEC)

Roger Walker (ESA)

Since the second CubeSat Industry Days event was held in June 2015, there has been a further progress in European CubeSat system capabilities, subsystem products/technologies, launch services, and mission operations experience. The market is widening, CubeSat industry growth continues to gather pace, and government as well as commercial customers are starting to utilise these small systems for science and applications. The ESA Technology programme has several CubeSat In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) projects and technology development activities ongoing with industry/research institutes aimed at maturing enabling miniaturized technologies and getting them to orbit as quickly as possible. Significantly, CubeSat/nanosats have, for the first time, formed part of the ESA Technology programme approved by Member States at the Ministerial Council 2016. Furthermore, numerous CubeSat/nano-spacecraft related mission studies are underway or completed, including "beyond LEO" CubeSats for science and exploration. Additionally, CubeSat projects have recently been initiated in other ESA programmes too. The event serves as a forum to exchange information on the latest industry developments/future priorities and the ESA activities in the CubeSat nano-satellite domain, reflect on technology/mission roadmaps, as well as to discuss the technical/regulatory challenges facing the industry in sustaining further growth and competitiveness in this innovative and dynamic segment of the space sector.

Presentations (zip file) CubeSat_2017.zip

Tuesday, 13 June

09:00 → 09:15 Opening Speech

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)

09:15 → 10:45 Company Presentations on CubeSat Missions, Systems & Services: Part 1

Convener: Dr Klaus Schilling (Center for Telematics)

09:15 Bigger or Smaller? The Trend of CubeSat Developments

Speaker: Dr Jian GUO (TU Delft Space Institute)

09:30 The QB50 Mission for the Investigation of the Mid-Lower Thermosphere: Preliminary Results and Lessons Learned

Speaker: Dr Davide MASUTTI (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics)

09:45 ISIS - Innovative Solution In space - overview of ongoing CubeSat Missions in Operations, Design and Development

Speaker: Mr Jeroen ROTTEVEEL (ISIS - Innovative Solutions In Space)

10:00 Current & Future Missions at Surrey Space Centre

Speaker: Dr Christopher BRIDGES (Surrey Space Centre)

10:15 Initial experience with GOMSPACE Next Generation platform

Speaker: Mr Per KOCH (GomSpace A/S)

10:30 NANOsky I satellite platform

Speaker: Dr Tomaz ROTOVNIK (SkyLabs)

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Company Presentations on CubeSat Missions, Systems & Services: Part 2

Convener: Mr Lars Krogh Alminde (GomSpace Aps)

11:00 The role of the Nanosatellite in the ‘New Space’ revolution

Speaker: Mr Allan Cannon (Clyde Space)

11:15 NetSat - four cooperating networked CubeSats flying as formation

Speaker: Dr Klaus SCHILLING (Center for Telematics / S4 GmbH)

11:30 Hello Earth - Hyperspectral imaging CubeSat constellation

Speaker: Mr Janne Kuhno (Reaktor Space Lab Ltd.)

11:45 IOV/IOD Mission based on CubeSat and PLATINO Italian Platform

Speaker: Dr Giuseppe DE FRANCO (Thales Alenia Space)

12:00 Open Cosmos: satellites as a service

Speaker: Mr Rafel JORDA SIQUIER (Open Cosmos)

12:15 PROXIMA SPACE: The Space closer than never before

Speaker: Mrs Abenauara FONTE (Proxima Space)

12:30 Space Activities - Galician Aerospace Centre

Speaker: Prof. Fernando AGUADO (CINAE)

12:45 ARION 2 - the next European microlauncher

Speaker: Mr Raúl Verdú (PLD Space)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Company Presentations on CubeSat Missions, Systems & Services: Part 3

Convener: Mr Tor-Arne Grönland (NanoSpace)

14:00 An Innovative Approach to Cubesats Deployment and Dispersion: The D-Orbit ION Cubesat Carrier

Speaker: Mr Stefano ANTONETTI (D-ORBIT)

14:15 The KSATlite Ground Station Network - Enabling the full potential of Small Satellite

Speaker: Mr Jan SCHULTE (Kongsberg Satellite Services)

14:30 Ground segment architecture and services for commercial and scientific cubesat/nanosat missions

Speaker: Mr Alessio DI SALVO (NEXT Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA)

14:45 Integrated mission design for small satellites

Speaker: Mr Kartik KUMAR (Satsearch)

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 18:30 Company Presentations on CubeSat Subsystems, Products and Technologies: Part 1

Conveners: Dr Christopher Bridges (Surrey Space Center), Mr Johan Vennekens (ESA/ESTEC)

15:15 GomSpace status and product port-folios

Speaker: Mr Lars Krogh ALMINDE (GomSpace Aps)

15:30 Sirius - C&DH and Power management for advanced Cubesat missions with high requirements for reliability

Speaker: Mr Iraklis Hatziathanasiou (ÅAC Microtec)

15:45 On-orbit Performance of Robust, Power-efficient OBDH

Speaker: Dr Klaus SCHILLING (Center for Telematics / S4 GmbH)

16:00 12 years of successful deployers by Astrofein

Speaker: Dr Yawen HUANG-WOLFF (Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH)

16:15 Time Delay Integration CCD-in-CMOS imagers and monolithic integrated spectral filters for Earth Observation

Speaker: Dr Piet DE MOOR (IMEC)

16:30 High performance Camera for Cubesat

Speaker: Mr Roland GEYL (Safran Reosc)

16:45 Advanced 3D printed optical payloads for Earth Observation

Speaker: Mr Nicolas ROUSSELET (Optimized System Engineering)

17:00 Optical Communications Terminals for cubesats

Speaker: Mr Ivan FERRARIO (TNO)

17:15 High Data Rate Optical Communication Payload OSIRIS for CubeSat Missions

Speaker: Mr Christopher SCHMIDT (German Aerospace Center)

17:30 Compact Attitude Control System for CubeSats

Speaker: Mr James BARRINGTON-BROWN (NewSpace Systems Limited)

17:45 Spacestar: Realtime in orbit Cubesat positioning at centimetre level using a GNSS receiver

Speaker: Mr Hans VISSER (Fugro-Intersite BV)

18:00 Advanced components including Integrated attitude and orbit control for small missions

Speaker: Dr Steven ENGELEN (Hyperion Technologies)

Wednesday, 14 June

09:00 → 09:30 ESA IOD CubeSat Activities & Roadmap

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)

09:30 → 10:45 Company Presentations on CubeSat Subsystems, Products and Technologies: Part 2

Convener: Mr Matthew Smith (ESA/ESTEC)

09:30 Propulsion for various cubesat sizes and missions

Speaker: Mr Tor-Arne GRÖNLAND (NanoSpace)

09:45 Small satellite chemical propulsion and applications. LituanciaSAT-2 mission case (QB50)

Speaker: Mr Vytenis BUZAS (NanoAvionics)

10:00 EOL Operations of the D-SAT Cubesat: an In-Orbit Demonstration of Satellite Controlled Re-entry

Speaker: Mr Stefano Antonetti (D-ORBIT)

10:15 MotorSat - Design and commercialisation of motor for cubesat without propellant

Speaker: Mr Cedric JOUY (MotorSat)

10:30 Deorbit kit for cubesats

Speaker: Mr Gonzalo Sanchez (SENER)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:45 Company Presentations on CubeSat Subsystems, Products and Technologies: Part 3

Convener: Dr Jian Guo (TU Delft Space Institute)

11:15 3U & 6U deployable solar panels for LEO missions

Speaker: Dr Vicente DIAZ (DHV Technology SL)

11:30 Thin and Low Cost InGaP/InGaAs/Ge high efficiency triple junction solar cells: qualification status

Speaker: Dr Marco FICCADENTI (CESI SpA)

11:45 Two Phase Mechanically Pumped Loop for Thermal Management of Space Applications

Speaker: Dr Giuseppe ZUMMO (ENEA)

12:00 Model-Based Software for Efficient Space Operations

Speaker: Dr Peter MENDHAM (Bright Ascension Ltd)

12:15 Artificial Intelligence to enhance CubeSats Mission Autonomy

Speaker: Mr Lorenzo FERUGLIO (AIKO SRL)

12:30 Space-COTS == presentation cancelled

Speaker: Mr Jaime ESTELA (Spectrum Aerospace Technologies UG)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:30 IOD CubeSat Projects in ESA Technology Programme

Convener: Dr Roger Walker (ESA/ESTEC)

13:45 RADCUBE, a CubeSat for space weather applications

Speaker: Mr Gábor Marosy (C3S Electronics Development LLC)

14:00 From GOMX-3 flight success to GOMX-4B, an advanced nanosat IOD mission

Speaker: Mr Lars Krogh ALMINDE (GomSpace Aps)

14:15 Preparing the HyperScout In-Orbit Demonstration

Speaker: Dr Marco ESPOSITO (Cosine Measurement Systems)

14:30 Remote Sensing of Ozone with PICASSO and ALTIUS

Speaker: Dr Jan THOEMEL (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)

14:45 Flight Software for the PICASSO & QARMAN Missions

Speaker: Dr Peter MENDHAM (Bright Ascension Ltd)

15:00 Lessons Learnt from ESA's OPS-SAT Mission

Speaker: Mr David Evans (ESA/ESOC)

15:15 NanoSat MO Framework: A software framework for OPS-SAT Experimenters

Speaker: Mr Cesar COELHO (TU Graz/ESA)

15:30 → 16:15 CubeSat projects in other ESA programmes

Convener: Dr Jan Thoemel (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)

15:30 Pioneer - Establishing IOD/IOV as a Service

Speaker: Dr Christopher TOPPING (ESA/ESTEC)

15:45 CubeISSat: proximity operations for autonomous space drones

Speaker: Mr Maurizio Vanotti (Tyvak)

16:00 Business Model for an Open Source CubeSat Ecosystem

Speaker: Dr Redouane BOUMGHAR (ESA/ESOC)

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:15 ESA CubeSat-related Technology Development Activities

Convener: Dr Philipp Hager (ESA/ESTEC)

16:30 A high data-rate reconfigurable Ka-band transceiver fitting on cubesats

Speaker: Mr Guerric DE CROMBRUGGHE (Antwerp Space)

16:45 Deorbiting kits for cubesats

Speaker: Mr Lorenzo Tarabini (SENER)

17:00 An Open Architecture for Space and Ground Segment of Cubesat Missions

Speaker: Dr Mehran SARKARATI (ESA/ESOC)

17:15 → 18:00 ESA CubeSat mission studies

Convener: Dr Sabrina Corpino (Politecnico di Torino)

17:15 Sysnova LUCE mission concepts/description

Speaker: Mr Johan VENNEKENS (ESA/ESTEC)

17:30 M-ARGO: Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer mission

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)

17:45 e.Inspector mission

Speaker: Mr Andrew WOLAHAN (ESA/ESTEC)

18:00 → 19:45 Social Event (Drink)

Thursday, 15 June

08:55 → 09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)

09:00 → 10:30 CubeSat Lessons Learned and Engineering Best Practices

Convener: Mr Paolo Concari (ESA/ESTEC)

09:00 Mission Reliability - lessons from the Oil & Gas Industry

Speaker: Mr Hans VAN DE VORST (SecuoS BV)

09:15 SpaceSuit(e): A smart solution for space environment effects analysis for small and medium space systems

Speaker: Ms Amandine CHAMPLAIN (Artenum)

09:30 Radiation hardness simulations and assurance

Speaker: Prof. Behcet ALPAT (INFN)

09:45 Thermal Design, Analysis and Test of CubeSats

Speaker: Dr Philipp HAGER (ESA/ESTEC)

10:00 Mechanical and Thermal Analysis & Design Services for high-performance payloads

Speaker: Mr Silvio MASANTE (Space Structures GmbH)

10:15 New space technology centre and test facility dedicated for 1-12U CubeSat missions

Speaker: Mr Balazs ZABORI (MTA Centre for Energy Research)

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:00 Working Groups Objectives & Organisation

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)

11:00 → 12:00 Working Groups Discussion Points

12:00 → 13:00 Working Groups Discussion: Part 1

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Working Groups Discussion: Part 2

15:00 → 16:00 Working Groups Findings

16:00 → 16:15 Wrap-up

Speaker: Dr Roger Walker (ESA)