9 AM to 10 AM — Welcome & Keynote

9 AM — Welcome and Keynote Introduction

Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

9:10 AM — Keynote Address I

 10 AM to 10:30 AM — Break

10:30 AM to 12:00 PM — Session 1

Core Spacecraft Hardware & Mechanisms

10:30 AM — Development of a Low SWaP-C Star Tracker for CubeSat Attitude Determination

Joshua Engler, United States Naval Academy

10:45 AM — Providing Cost-Effective, High-Performance Mission Opportunities with Industry-Leading Avionics

Steve Stem, Blue Canyon Technologies

11:00 AM — Structural Design of a CubeSat Nanosatellite Based on an Aluminum Alloy with Yttrium Addition

Victor Leonardo Zuñiga Rodriguez, Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial / IPN

11:15 AM — Design and Validation of Resistor-Based Burn Wire Deployment Mechanism for the DAPPEr CubeSat

Alexander Nash, The University of Delaware

11:30 AM — Autonomous Electrical Power System for a CubeSat with Evaluation in a Simulated Orbital Environment

Salvador Sanchez Catarino, Centro de Desarrollo Aeroespacial / IPN

11:45 AM — CubeSat On-orbit Separation Mechanism Development

Jin Kang, U.S. Naval Academy

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM — Lunch

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM — Session 2

Environmental Engineering, Radiation & Reliability

1:00 PM — Thermal Aware Design Solutions to Heating Challenges of Space-Based Electronics

Nkosi Cruickshank, Tek Terrain LLC

1:15 PM — A Spot-Shielding Approach to Radiation and Thermal Management for CubeSat COTS Electronics

Saurabh Khuje, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

1:30 PM — Electrostatic Discharge Risks in the Build and Deployment of CubeSats Housing ESD-Sensitive Devices: The Charge Board Effect—A Hidden Hazard on Static-Control Worksurfaces and Field-Induced Model Discharge During Deployment

Bob Vermillion, RMV Technology Group, LLC

1:45 PM — Integrated Multiphysics Simulation and MDAO-Driven Design Workflow for the DEXSTR Mission

Alexander Jackson, Missouri S&T

2:00 PM — Exo-Braking to BrainStacks – Current Research Thrusts in the TES-n Series

Marcus Murbach, NASA Ames Research Center

2:15 PM — AMDROHPSAT: A 3U CubeSat to Test an Additively Manufactured Deployable Radiator with Oscillating Heat Pipes

Drew Stannard-Stockton, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM — Break

3:00 PM to 4:45 PM — Session 3

Communications Systems & Onboard Architectures

3:00 PM — Electronically Steerable Antenna for High-Speed Data Downlink

Daniel Theron, CUBECOM

3:15 PM — How You Should and Should Not Construct an Optical Transceiver for a CubeSat

Jeries Abedrabbo, University of Florida

3:30 PM — Development Status of an Omnidirectional Optical Terminal for LEO and Cislunar Missions

Jose Velazco, Chascii

3:45 PM — Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Satellites

Clara Davis, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

4:00 PM — A Multi-Purpose Novel Transponder for CubeSats

Adarsh Rajguru, Manifest Space

4:15 PM — Integrated Software-Defined Radio–Onboard Computer Architecture for Nanosatellites: The QUbeSat1 Implementation

Noor Khial, Qatar University

4:30 PM — Experimental Optimization for LED-Based Downlink from Low Earth Orbit

Jin Kang, United States Naval Academy

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)