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Small Satellite Conference
Small Satellite

Missions At Scale

August 5-10, 2023

Thank You

Another Successful SmallSat

3700

Attendees

266

Exhibiting Organizations

44

Countries

1000+

Organizations Represented

Congratulations to our

Lifetime Achievement Recipients

Dr. Rudy Panholzer and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting

Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement Award

Student Competition Winners

First Place $10,000

Star Tracker Algorithm Improvements to Restore Performance After Radiation Exposure

Abigail Lee - Queen's University

Faculty Advisor: Brent Brakeboer

Second Place $7,500

Evaluating Rotation-Equivariant Deep Learning Models for On-Orbit Cloud Segmentation

Alex Meredith - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty Advisor: Kerri Cahoy

Third Place $6,000

Moon Orbiter “Izumi” for Lunar Water Exploration

Kentaro Taniguchi - Waseda University; Miwa Tsurumi - Aoyama Gakuin University; Ryusei Komatsu – The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

Faculty Advisor: Teruaki Enoto

Honorable Mention $3,000

Development of Tactical and Strategic Operations Software for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission

Mason Starr - Georgia Institute of Technology

Faculty Advisor: Glenn Lightsey

Honorable Mention $3,000

Cost-Effective Payload Operations Planning Software for Complex Small Spacecraft Mission Operations

Willard Farmer - Space Flight Laboratory

Faculty Advisor: Robert Zee

Honorable Mention $3,000

LOST: An Open-source Suite of Star Tracking Software

Mark Polyakov, Edward Zhang, Karen Haining - University of Washington

Faculty Advisor: Alvar Saenz-Otero

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