Day 1 - April 14
9 AM PDT – 4:45 PM PDT
9 AM - 10 AM — Breakfast
10:15 AM to 12 PM — Session 1
Core Spacecraft Hardware & Mechanisms
10:15 AM — Welcome
Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
10:30 AM — Development of a Low SWaP-C Star Tracker for CubeSat Attitude Determination
Christopher Diaz, 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 — Design and Validation of Resistor-Based Burn Wire Deployment Mechanism for the DAPPEr CubeSat
Alexander Nash, The University of Delaware
11:15 AM — AMDROHPSAT: A 3U CubeSat to Test an Additively Manufactured Deployable Radiator with Oscillating Heat Pipes
Benjamin Kurtz and Drew Stannard-Stockton, The Cal Poly CubeSat Laboratory
11:30 AM — CubeSat On-orbit Separation Mechanism Development
Garcia, Hardaway, and Williams, U.S. Naval Academy
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM — Lunch
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM — Session 2
Radiation & Space Reliability
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 — Integrated Multiphysics Simulation and MDAO-Driven Design Workflow for the DEXSTR Mission
Alexander Jackson, Missouri S&T
1:45 PM — Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Satellites
Clara Davis, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM — Lab Tours
3:00 PM to 4:30 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 — A Multi-Purpose Novel Transponder for CubeSats
Adarsh Rajguru, Manifest Space
4:00 PM — Experimental Optimization for LED-Based Downlink from Low Earth Orbit
Andrew White and Nicolas Tenorio, United States Naval Academy
4:15 PM — Closing Remarks
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM — Networking Dinner at The Hub
(1701 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401)