2023 Schedule
April 25–27, 2023
*All times listed are in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
7:30AM-9:00AM
Check in & Breakfast
9:00AM–10:00AM:
Welcome & Keynote Speaker I
10:30AM–12:00PM:
Session 1: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going
12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM–2:30PM:
Session 2: Community Knowledge
3:00PM–5:00PM:
Session 3: Workforce Development and Educational Programs
6:00PM–10:00PM: Networking Dinner
8:00AM-9:00AM
Check in & Breakfast
9:00AM–10:00AM:
Welcome & Keynote Speaker II
10:30AM–12:00PM:
Session 4: Testing and Reliability
12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM–2:30PM:
Session 5: Launch
3:00PM–4:45PM:
Session 6: Subsystems
8:00AM-9:00AM
Check in & Breakfast
9:00AM–10:00AM:
Welcome
10:30AM–12:00PM:
Session 7: Communications
Session 8: Thermal and Electrical
12:30PM–1:30PM:
Thermal Panel
6:30PM-8:30PM: Farmer’s Market
Scheduled Side Meetings
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F-Prime Tutorial (Full)
April 25-26
F Prime is a free, open-source and flight-proven flight software development ecosystem developed at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that is tailored for small-scale systems such as CubeSats, SmallSats, and instruments. F Prime comprises several elements: (1) an architectural approach that decomposes flight software into discrete components with well-defined interfaces that communicate over ports; (2) a C++ framework providing core capabilities such as message queues and an OS abstraction layer; (3) a growing collection of generic components for basic features such as command dispatch, event logging, and memory management that can be incorporated without modification into new flight software projects; and (4) a suite of tools that streamline key phases of flight software development from design through integrated testing.
During the CubeSat Developers Workshop this year, members of the F Prime team at JPL will conduct a two-day onsite F Prime tutorial that will be offered on April 25-26. The tutorial will provide 8 hours total instruction that includes hands-on exercises covering the following:
• Software Modeling using the F Prime Prime (FPP) Domain Specific Language
• Component Implementation
• Unit Testing
• System Integration and Test using the F Prime Ground Data System
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Lunar Cubes Workshop
Friday, 4/28
It has been quite a year for CubeSats beyond Earth orbit! One area remaining unresolved and where clearly more trade study needs to be done is in refinement/further development of the CubeSat paradigm for more diverse and complex payloads and targets for cislunar space. For LunarCubes this year, we will consider what we have in mind for these 'diverse' lunar payloads and where we go from here.
This year's LunarCubes meeting will be an informal meeting, with short presentations and discussions on Friday morning April 28 at Cal Poly. Let's hear about any ideas you have for supporting or developing lunar payloads, either in orbit or landed, and approaches for getting them and operating them on the Moon.
8:30 AM
Introductions, Status of Deep Space CubeSat Programs
CubeSats, Flown, Flying, or Planned beyond LEO to Date
Report on results from ASU Deep Space Summit
Discussion of results
9:30 AM
Next Generation Lunar Payloads
Presentations state of the art components, subsystems
Presentation next generation mission or payload concepts
Group questions and discussion
10:30 AM
Discussions in small groups, then with entire group:
Challenges for one or more mission or payload concepts
Solutions for one or more mission or payload concepts
We will generate a white paper from the discussions.
Plase join us for a hands on workshop which is sure to be lively!
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Small Sat Reliability
Wednesday 4/26