

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



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