Day 2 - April 15

9:00AM PDT – 5:30PM PDT

9 AM to 10 AM — Breakfast


10:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Session 4

Science Payloads & Advanced Instrumentation

10:30 AM — Welcome

Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

10:45 AM — VECTOR: A CubeSat Testbed for Rapid Optical Follow-Up of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Sophie Fendler, WashU Satellite

11:00 AM — Development and Ground Validation of a CubeSat Acoustic Sensing Payload

Efa Anaïs Cannieux, Oakwood School

11:15 AM — Advances in CubeSat-Based Active and Passive Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Naresh Deo, Visionary CommSense Solutions

11:30 AM — A Low-Cost 1U CubeSat-Form-Factor Platform for Near-Space Testing and Education

Cannon Kilcrease, Oklahoma State University

11:45 AM — AMSAT Updates

Drew Glasbrenner, AMSAT


12:30 PM to 1:30 PM — Lunch


1:30 PM to 2:45 PM — Session 5

Deployment, Simulation & Strategic Scaling

1:30 PM — The Streamlined Assembly Learning Experiment

Kayla Wong and Adrian Serniak, The Cal Poly CubeSat Laboratory

1:45 PM — In Orbit Now: Services for Satellite Precise Deployment and Technology IOD

Francesco Esposito, D-Orbit

2:00 PM — CATSIM™: A Cloud-Based CubeSat Mission Simulator for Early-Phase Design, Digital Engineering, and Education

Keith Cleveland, Cleveland Aerospace Technology Services

2:15 PM — GENESys: Applications of Advanced Monopropellants in a Nanosatellite Engine System

Kyriacos Philippou, The Cal Poly CubeSat Lab

2:30 PM — OWL Integrations SQuAD Payload

Steve Dunton, Cal Poly / OWL Integrations


2:45 PM to 4:00 PM — Poster Session


4:00 PM to 5:30 PM — Session 6

Mission Operations, Software & Autonomy

4:00 PM —Design and Experimental Evaluation of Cross-Yagi Antennas and Optical Upgrades for CubeSat Ground Stations

Jose Velazco, Chascii

4:15 PM — Ground Segment Operation and On-Orbit Validation of the BEE-1000 CubeSat

Jaein Lee, Yonsei University

4:30 PM — NASA F' (FPrime) & AMSAT Integration

Henry Danielson and Clara Davis, Cal Poly SLO

4:45 PM — GPDM Mission Operations Development: Blending Different Operations Techniques

Alan Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology

5:00 PM — AI-Driven Fault Management for Autonomous CubeSat and SmallSat Mission Operations

Naushad Rahman, Delta-V Analytics Inc

5:15 PM — Secure Tasking Through Inter-Satellite Relay

Bob McElrath, Dyson Labs


5:30 PM — Closing Remarks