9 AM to 10 AM — Welcome & Keynote

9 AM — Welcome and Keynote Introduction

Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

9:15 AM — Key Note Address I

Major General Douglas A. Schiess, United States Space Force

 10 AM to 10:30 AM — Break

10:30 AM to 12:00 PM — Where Have We Been and Where are We Going?

10:30 AM — The Cubesat Revolution: Lessons Learned, Applied, and Advanced from the Apollo Decade

Pamela Clark, Morehead State University

10:45 AM — Lessons Learned from the NUTSAT Mission

Kuang-Han Ke, Gran Systems Co. Ltd.

11:00 AM — TechEdSat 7, 10, 13, 15:  Exo-Brake Experiments on Orbit

Avery Brock, KBR, NASA Ames Research Center, Malachi Mooney-Rivkin, Metis, NASA Ames Research Center

11:15 AM — Development of Two High-Energy Bus ‘Cores’ for Rapid Support of Low-TRL and Educational Payloads: A Software-Configured EPS Combined with Flexible C&DH

Avery Brock, KBR, NASA Ames Research Center, Malachi Mooney-Rivkin, Metis, NASA Ames Research Center

11:30 AM — On-Orbit Operations and Lasercom Experiment Results for the CLICK-A Mission

Peter Grenfell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 AM — TOLIMAN Mission - In Search of Extraterrestrial Life

Viktoriya Dimov, EnduroSat

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM — Lunch

1:15 PM to 2:45 PM — Community Knowledge

1:15 PM — Inducing cellular hibernation to enable advanced biological research on CubeSat missions.

Chris Mehner, Mayo Clinic

1:30 PM — Falcon-RAD: A Dosimeter Payload for CubeSats

Elliott Kmetz, Arthur J. Rounaghi, John R. Arne, Dr. Mathew G. Mcharg, and Dr. Parris C. Neal; U.S. Air Force Academy, Space Physics and Atmospheric Research Center

1:45 PM — Monitoring Solar Effect with CubeSats on Cosmic Ray Flux Variation at Sea Level

Victoria Padgett, Georgia State University

2:00 PM — An Overview of Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy at NASA Ames

Caleb Adams, NASA Ames

2:15 PM — Incorporating Next-Level Modularity with a Standard Bus CubeSat

Alexandra Harrison, United States Naval Academy

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM — Break

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM — Workforce Development and Educational Programs

3:00 PM — Empowering K-12 Students to Tackle Real-World Challenges in Space Engineering: A Collaboration between MaxIQ Space and bluShift Aerospace

Judi Sandrock, MaxIQ Space

3:15 PM — 3UCubed: Command and Data Handling

Haley Joerger, Erika Diaz Ramirez, and Laura Peticolas, University of New Hampshire

3:30 PM — Academic CubeSats are the Stroads of the New Space Industry:  Case Studies in Why Academic CubeSat Programs Struggle

Michael Pham, Blue Dot Consortium | The Spacecraft Company

3:45 PM — PROVES: Enabling Repeatable and Sustainable CubeSat Education  with a $1000 Open CubeSat Kit

Megan Beck, Bronco Space - PROVES

4:00 PM — Space Science and Engineering Workforce Development at UNLV

Ke-Xun Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4:15 PM — Payload Design of RHOK-SAT, a 1U CubeSat to Characterize Perovskites in LEO

Jose Pastrana, Rhodes College

4:30 PM — A Bimodal 3U-CubeSat Mission to Measure the Effects of Solar Particle Events on the Earth’s Atmosphere

Katlynn Vicuña and James Crawford, University of Hawaii at Manoa

4:45 PM — Closing Remarks

6:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Networking Dinner at SLO Brew Rock

(855 Aerovista Ln, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401)