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

  • 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

  • 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!

  • Small Sat Reliability

    Wednesday 4/26