Name: European Space Thermal Engineering Workshop 2025
Start: 2025-09-09T07:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-11T20:15:00+02:00
Location: ESA/ESTEC

Monday 8 September 2025
Tuesday 9 September 2025

08:00

08:00 - 09:30
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

09:30 Opening - Kalomoira Gklisti Olivier Pin

09:40 ESA Missions and Thermal Technology Development Update - Stephane Lapensee (ESA)

10:20 ESA Missions and Thermal Technology Development Update - James Etchells

10:40 Disruptive Innovations Invitation - Thorsten Klameth (ESA TEC-MTT)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

12:00 Ammonia MECOP LHP for Multi-Kilowatt Thermal Management - Luka Ivanovskis (Allatherm SIA)

12:30 Candidacy of cryogenic pulsating heat pipes for space applications - Tisha Dixit (CEA Paris-Saclay)
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

11:30 Thermal Model Correlation for the OHB-I IRIDE Mission: Optical payload and satellite TVAC tests - Laura Festa (Politecnico di Milano)

12:00 Designing for Deep Space: The Thermal Challenge Behind the HENON CubeSat - Liborio Luca Mininni

12:30 6S CubeSat Thermal Testing and Correlation campaign: Educational Innovation in Space Engineering - Diego Fascendini (Politecnico di Milano) Giulia Bianchini (Politecnico di Milano) Ludovico Bernasconi (Politecnico di Milano)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

14:00 From Experimental Models to Daily Simulations: Advancing Thermal Reliability Assessment for Spacecraft - Vincent Vadez (Dorea Technology)

14:30 Advancements in thermal co-simulation using FMI (EISTAM follow-on) - Antoine Caugant Matthieu Rodriguez (Airbus Defence and Space)

15:00 First steps with Generative AI in thermal analysis workflows - Matthew Vaughan (ESA)

15:30 ESATAN-TMS - Henri Brouquet
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

14:00 A long way home – thermal challenges in ESAs Plasma Observatory” - Kacper Kuta (Creotech Instruments)

14:30 Thermal design and analysis of the ARIEL MGAMA. - María Páez López (SENER)

15:00 Thermal design of an External Antenna Pointing Mechanism for an Interplanetary Mission - Antonia Grethen-Bussmann (Beyond Gravity Schweiz AG)

15:30 Rosalind Franklin Mission – Challenges and trade-offs to minimize heater power consumption in harsh environments - William Bontemps (Airbus Defense and Space Ltd)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

16:30 Integration simplification of capillary driven heat transport systems - typhaine coquard (airbus defence and space)

17:00 Demonstration of methods for adding heat switch function to loop heat pipe - Takeshi Miyakita (JAXA)

17:30 Loop Heat Pipe operating between 100K to 150K for detector cooling - typhaine coquard (airbus defence and space)
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

16:30 Thermal modelling for the Martian environment using the ESATAN-TMS Python API - KENZA BATTAGLIA

17:00 Thermal Modeling and Environmental Analysis of 99942 Apophis for Surface Mission Applications - Davide Cosenza (Tyvak International)

17:30 Lunar Thermal Environment Modelling and Thermal Design Trade-Offs for Lunar South Pole Landers - Matteo Ruvolo (OHB System AG / KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
18:00 Cocktail
Cocktail
18:00 - 19:30
Wednesday 10 September 2025
09:00 Thermo Elastic
Thermo Elastic
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

09:00 Thermo-Elastic Antenna Depointing Analysis Workflow - Nayli Hayi-Slayman (Maya HTT)

09:30 Thermo-mechanical analysis of a satellite’s electronic box with Thermal Desktop and Ansys Mechanical - Daniel Navajas Ortega (Ansys)
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

10:00 Coupling Orbit Propagation and Abaqus FEA for Spacecraft Thermal Control Design and Innovation - Puyu Shi (The University of Manchester)

10:30 Thermal Analysis and Testing of the Enfys Electronics Box - Nivraj Chana
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

10:00 SMILE Thermal Testing in the Large Space Simulator - Andreas Mussger (ESA) Matthew Vaughan (ESA)

10:30 PROBA-3 TCS from Dual-Spacecraft Thermal Testing to Flight Performance - Jesualdo Ros Arlanzón (Airbus DS Madrid)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

11:30 Heat Pipe and Hybrid Radiator/Single-Loop Technology for Exploration Missions - Filipe Mancio Reis (Airbus Defence and Space)

12:00 ALM heat-pipe for compact active antenna - typhaine coquard (airbus defence and space)

12:30 Flexible Heat Pipe for Space, Development and Test Validation - Mikael Mohaupt (Lead Design Engineer at EHP) Safia Moussaoui
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

11:30 MetOp-SG Satellite A Launch and Early Orbit Launch Thermal Performance - Romain PEYROU-LAUGA (ESA)

12:00 Design and Analysis of ATHENA’s X-IFU Cryostat - Santiago Terron (avs)

12:30 THERMAL DESIGN OF HAWK PLUS: A STANDARDIZED AND SCALABLE SMALL SATELLITE PLATFORM - Claudio Pedrazzini
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

14:00 Effects of lunar dust deposition on thermal control surfaces - from measurements with lunar dust simulants to predictions for real lunar dust - Philipp Hager (ESA)

14:30 Pre and Post Mission Thermal Analysis and Operations of the Lunar Outpost Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) Rover - Alexander Walker (Lunar Outpost) Kaila Pfrang (Lunar Outpost US)

15:00 Design and Optimization of Convective Cooling System for Mars Flight Vehicle - Jiri Teichman (TechSoft Engineering)

15:30 Lunar Night Survival technologies originating from the LUX-Thermal development - Tobias Flecht (LunarOutpost EU) Jan Junker (Lunar Outpost EU) Kaja Dabrowska (Lunar Outpost EU)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

14:00 WFI Fast Detector Breadboard Thermal Cycling Test And Learnings - Anirudh Mukund Saraf (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

14:30 Thermal Balance Test and thermal model correlation of FLORIS PFM - Edoardo Maria Benivegna (Leonardo)

15:00 A Thermal Instrumentation Study for the Large Space Test Chamber Loading Trolley - Jack Pleasant

15:30 Thermal Testing of the Structural and Thermal Model of the HyperSpectral Instrument for the CHIME Mission - Victor Cleren (ESA)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 18:00
Room: Newton

18:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:00 - 21:00
Thursday 11 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

09:00 SYSTEMA – THERMICA - Léa Galeron

09:30 Radian: Developments during 2025 for a cloud-based thermal analysis software - David Criado (Radian)

10:00 Ansys Thermal Desktop new features and coming developments - Daniel Navajas Ortega (Ansys)

10:30 Thermal Modeling for Early Design Phases - Katell Le Floch Noé Bursachi (CNES)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Newton 2
Contributions

09:00 PCM passive thermal control for stable structures - David Valentini (Thales Alenia Space) Romain PEYROU-LAUGA (ESA)

09:30 WIVERN Payload Module Thermal Design and Loop Heat Pipe BB Testing - Russell Bewick (OHB System AG) Quentin Harivel (Technology Development Manager at EHP)

10:00 Thermal design, analysis and test of near infrared and visible cameras abstract - INVAP - Domingo Cattoni (INVAP S.E.) Olivier Martre (INVAP S.E.)

10:30 Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM) thermal challenges - Dylan Feore (Airbus Defence and Space) Erik Hailer (Airbus Defence and Space) Romain PEYROU-LAUGA (ESA)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton 2
Contributions

11:30 Development of an engineering model of an additive-manufactured Electronic Box with embedded heat pipes: from architectural choices to final thermal performances - Luigi Vitali (Politecnico di Milano, dip. di Energia)

12:00 Enhanced Cooling for Electronic Boxes - Antoine Lonez (Euro Heat Pipes)

12:30 Oscillating Heat Pipes for Satellite Electronics Thermal Management - Corey Wilson (ThermAvant Technologies)
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

11:30 Dynamic Thermal Simulation of a Reusable Inflatable Atmospheric Decelerator during Entry and Descent from LEO towards Earth - Corey Packard (ThermoAnalytics, Inc.)

12:00 Wavelength dependency of thermo-optical properties and their role in testing on cryotemperatures - Niels Hendrik Schibilla (OHB System AG) Zsolt Péterbencze (OHB System AG)

12:30 Thermal Correlation of a mechanically driven loop heat pipe for deep space science missions - Florian Sanchez (Maya HTT)
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

14:00 Thermal design of the 6U CubeSat using Systema Thermica - Marek Sedlařík (TRL Space Systems s.r.o., Bauerova 10, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic)

14:30 Thermal Design and Analysis of an In-Space Manufacturing Demonstrator Payload with Radian - Benedikt Bauer (Dcubed GmbH)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Newton 2
Contributions

14:00 NanoBLAST, a novel surface treatment for thermal applications - Sebastian Ospina (Azimut Space GmbH)

14:30 Additive Manufacturing for Thermal Management Components: Potential, Best Practices, and Space Applications - Daniele Da Prato (Sales Manager at AM Solutions srl)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:15
Contributions

16:00 Closure - Kalomoira Gklisti