Name: European Space Thermal Engineering Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-10-06T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ESA/ESTEC

European Space Thermal Engineering Workshop 2026

from Tuesday, 6 October 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 8 October 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 5 October 2026
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

09:30 Opening

09:30 - 10:30

10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Small Satellites & Cubesats
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

11:00 Design Guidelines for Dynamic Radiative Thermal Environment Simulation in CubeSat TVAC Testing - Daphne Papadatos (Carleton University)

11:30 Thermal Analysis of MOVE-IIIa and PEANUT Student Projects - David Hangen (TUM)

12:00 Thermal Balance and Cycle Testing of the ALEASAT 1U In-Orbit Demonstration CubeSat - Shreya Shah (University of British Columbia)
Thermal Design
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

11:00 PCM-Based Heat Capacitor and Heat Spreader Development and Design Optimization - Matvei Andreev (Azimut Space GmbH)

11:30 Passive Cooling System Design of the Ariel Telescope - Antonia Grethen-Bussmann (Beyond Gravity Schweiz AG)

12:00 HIROS Atmospheric Sounding Payload: Achieving Milli-Kelvin Stability in a Miniaturised Instrument - Theo Dantichan (RAL Space)

12:30 Design and optimization of open cell radiator for cryogenic application - Mark Alexa (Admatis Ltd.)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Thermal Analysis
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

14:00 ESATAN Thermal Modelling Suite - Product Development - Samuel Ekregbesi (ITP Aero)

14:30 SYSTEMA-THERMICA recent updates, model interoperability and AI usage - Léa Galeron (Airbus Defence & Space)

15:30 Radian Developments in 2026: Cloud-Based Thermal Analysis Software - Bernat Frangi Mahiques (Radian Systems) David Criado (Radian Systems)
Thermal Control
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

14:00 A Composite Architecture for Radiation Shielding and Thermal Management - Srujan Rokkam (Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.) Nathan Van Velson (Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.)

15:00 Lightweight insulation for high-temperature ISRU systems: Material characterization test results - Francisco J. Guerrero-Gonzalez (Maana Electric)

15:30 Design Update and Breadboard Validation of an Electrohydrodynamic Thermal Switch with Improved Volume Compensation - Magnus Heldin (APR Technologies)
16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Heat Transport Technology
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Newton
Contributions

16:30 Towards Multifunctional Satellite Structures: Embedding Pulsating Heat Pipes in Lightweight CFRP Laminates - Robert Oxford Pope (University of Bristol)

17:00 Thermal and microvibration characterization of a pulsating heat pipe for space application - Artur Jurkowski (Kp Labs Sp. z o.o.) Marcin Wójcik (Kp Labs Sp. z o.o.)
Thermo Elastic
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Einstein
Contributions

16:30 Thermoelastic Distortion Analysis and Optimization of a CubeSat Reflectarray Aperture - Mark Gonzi (Robin Space GmbH, TUM)

17:00 Considerations for the Solar Coronagraph for OPErations (SCOPE) - Nicole Melzack (STFC RAL Space)
17:30 Cocktails

17:30 - 20:30
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
09:00 Heat Transport Technology
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

09:00 Argon Loop Heat Pipe with Large Area of Heat Collection - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)

09:30 Passive Variable Heat Rejection System for Lunar and Planetary Habitats - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)

10:00 Experimental Characterisaton of Two-Phase Thermal Spreader for Space Electronic Cooling - Georgios Gkounis (Airbus Defence & Space Ltd.)

10:30 Recent Development of High-Temperature Alkali Metal Heat Pipes at ACT - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)
Thermal Analysis
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

09:00 Automated Thermal Control Design: A Coupled NLP-MILP Framework for Spacecraft Heater Sizing and Placement - Carlos Arroyo Ruiz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

09:30 Physics-Guided Neural Surrogate Modelling for Rapid Spacecraft Thermal Analysis - Alessandro Palomba (Politecnico di Milano)

10:00 AI-Based Thermal Correlation with In-Flight Telemetry - Wayne Croisetu (Dorea Technology)

10:30 Accelerating Spacecraft Thermal Analysis via Physics-Informed Neural Networks - Lorenzo Rabagliati (OBO Space)
11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Thermal for surface missions
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

11:30 Surviving the Lunar Night: Passive MLI Shelter Design and Restart-Criterion Assessment for a 5 kg-Class Lunar Micro-Rover - Marc Alexander Wegener (KTH)

12:00 Active Thermal Control Mechanisms for Extreme Environments - János Szőke (Admatis) Matthew Oldfield (ESR Technology)

12:30 Adaptive Heat Rejection for Lunar Surface Thermal Control Applications - Kaja Dabrowska (Lunar Outpost EU)
Thermal Testing
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

11:30 K-CORE® RADIATOR PANELS TVAC TEST AND TMM CORRELATION: AN INNOVATIVE THERMAL CONTROL SOLUTION FOR HIGH POWER DENSITY CUBESATS - Mattia Benericetti (Argotec S.r.l.)

12:00 Thermoplastic structures - modelling and testing - Marcel Daniluk (Creotech Instruments) Sylwia Ciorga (Creotech Instruments / Warsaw University of Technology)

12:30 Orbital thermal cycling as an excitation source for on-orbit non-destructive inspection: passive shearography for large space structures - Nan Tao (TU Delft) Matthijs van Heck (TU Delft) Mafalda Caramelo Assis (TU Delft)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Heat Transport Technology
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

14:00 Impact of Environmental and Life Qualification Campaigns on the Thermal Performance of Space-Grade Copper-Water Heat Pipes - Georgios Gkounis (Airbus Defence & Space Ltd.)

14:30 Development of an Additively Manufactured Titanium – Water Loop Heat Pipe - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)

15:00 Additive Manufactured Topology Optimized Cooling Structures for Electronic Equipment - Jaime Ruiz (Madrid Space)

15:30 Titanium-Water Heat Pipe Radiators for Fission Surface Power – Structural Assessment - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)
Thermal Analysis
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

14:00 METIS CORONAGRAPH: FLIGHT DATA THERMAL CORRELATION - TIZIANO SCHILLACI (THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA)

14:30 Improved post-processing workflow for space thermal design insight - Jean-Frederic Ruel (Maya HTT)

15:00 UPMpyTMD: An Open-Source Tool for Efficient Post-Processing of ESATAN-TMS Thermal Models - Alejandro Fernández-Soler (IDR/UPM)

15:30 Pycanha: current status of an open-source thermal analysis tool - Javier Piqueras Carreño (IDR/UPM)
16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Thermal Control
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

16:30 STARTEC, thermo-electric coolers for star trackers - Sebastian Ospina (Azimut Space GmbH)

17:00 Advanced Manufacturing Phase Change Material Heat Accumulators for New Space - JP Collette (Walopt)

17:30 Magnetocaloric Thermal Control for Space Applications - Patryk Cwik (Trinity College Dublin)
Thermal Design
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

16:30 In flight thermal correlations of ECLAIRs instrument Thermal Control System - Yann Cervantes (CNES)

17:00 Thermal design challenges in the preliminary architecture of ASLSTR, successor to the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer - Edoardo Maria Benivegna (Leonardo)

17:30 Thermal Control and Marangoni Effects in a Two-Phase Flow of the METRO ISS Experiment - Jiri Teichman (Czech Technical University in Prague)
18:00 Networking buffet

18:00 - 20:30
Thursday, 8 October 2026
09:00 Thermal Analysis
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

09:00 Assessment of the thermal model uncertainty from flight data comparison with thermal model predictions: Sentinel 1C case study - Francesco Latella (Thales Alenia Space)

09:30 Integrated Thermal Analysis and Battery Energy Balance Assessment of a Spacecraft Orbital Transfer and Return Vehicle Using TAITherm - NAGAPP PRADHANI (Atmos Space Cargo gmbh) Sacha Jelic (ThermoAnalytics, GmbH)

10:00 Thermal Vacuum Testing of the MIRMIS Instrument for ESA's Comet Interceptor Mission and Automated Thermal Model Correlation - João Castanheira (Synopsis Planet)

10:30 Comet Interceptor Scan Mirror Assembly : Thermal Model Correlation - Célestin Libert (Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL))
Thermal Testing
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

09:00 LISA Optical Metrology Subsystem Thermal Testing at CNES – Setup and Thermal Environment Characterization PART 1 - Corentin Buti (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales - CNES)

10:00 Frequency-Domain Correlation of a LISA Payload Thermal Model - Arthur Dunlop (ESA (ESTEC))

10:30 TVAC experimental verification of a temperature-induced excess noise subtraction methodology for sub-millihertz ultra-low-noise space magnetometers. - Pablo Cárdenas (Universidad de Cádiz)
11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Heat Transport Technology
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

11:30 Development, Qualification and Upcoming In-Orbit Demonstration of a Heat Pipe Module for Small Satellite Thermal Control - AKIRA TAKAGI (Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd)

12:00 Advanced composite materials using high quality diamond particles to achieve superior thermal conductivity - Gaby Cristian Mindreci (Performance Interconnect SAS)

12:30 Analysis and Test of a Heat Pipe System under a Centrifugal Acceleration Field - Paula Prado Montes (ESA)
Thermal Design
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

11:30 Thermal Control System Design and Verification for Comet Interceptor - Alessandro Spalla (OHB Italia S.p.A.)

12:00 Envision: mission status at PDR - Sergio Zanola (TAS) Stephan Ptacek (OHB) emmanuel caplanne (ESA)

12:30 Thermal and thermo-mechanical design of the ESA Genesis mission - Gianfranco Salih (OHB-I)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Thermal for surface missions
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

14:00 Progress on the capabilities of the thermal simulation environment for moving objects on the lunar surface - Joel Guetzlaff (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences)

14:30 Thermal Modelling of lunar surface temperature using Systema (Airbus Defence and Space software). - Simona Calarco (CNES)
Small Satellites & Cubesats
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Einstein
Contributions

14:00 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis on Thermal Management Solutions for High-Power 3U CubeSats - Ioana Teodora Oprea (Instituto Superior Técnico)

15:00 3D-Printed Loop Heat Pipes and Deployable Radiator Systems for CubeSat, SmallSat, and Lunar Habitat Applications - Calin Tarau (Advanced Cooling Technologies)

15:30 Thermal modelling of ELECTRA: lessons learned for a student team - Riccardo Dipietro (Politecnico di Torino)
15:00 Thermal Testing
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Newton
Contributions

15:00 Thermal test and correlation of SeRANIS Athene-1 small satellite - Miguel Cruzat (OHB LuxSpace)

15:30 FORUM FEI: Thermo-Mechanical architecture and TVAC verification - Giammarco Claroni (Leonardo S.p.A.) Monica Mozzato (ALTEN Italia)
16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:15
16:15 Thermal Analysis
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Newton
Contributions

16:15 Early Stage Satellite Thermal Analysis: Validating IDM-Thermal with Systema-Thermica - Daphne Papadatos (Carleton University)

16:45 A Simplified Methodology for LEOP Thermal Analyses with Evolving Radiative Enclosures: the HENON Case Study - Marco Guzzon (Argotec S.r.l.)

17:15 A Custom Two-Phase Nitrogen Property Library and Fluid-Solver-Free Reduced-Order Model for LN2 TVAC Cooling Prediction in ESATAN-TMS - Thilan Chandika Ranasinghe Ranasinghe Arachchillage (Technical University of Munich) Thilan Ranasinghe (Technical University of Munchen)
Thermal Control
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Einstein
Contributions

16:15 Graphene electrochromic variable emissivity radiator - Ciaran Mullan (SmartIR) NAGAPP PRADHANI (Atmos Space Cargo gmbh)

16:45 Opportunities for Solid-State Elastocaloric Technology in Active Thermal Management for Space Applications - Andrej Žerovnik (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
17:45 Opening: Closure
Closure
17:45 - 18:00