Side Meetings

Are you attending the Small Satellite Conference and looking to make strategic industry connections? SDL is hosting a networking session for post-degree professionals up to age 35. The event features a panel of prestigious experts who will provide career and industry insights during a brief discussion. Afterwards, make valuable connections with nearly 200 attendees, including the panelists and industry sponsors, while enjoying complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar.

Location
Logan Country Club
710 North 1500 East
Logan, UT 84321

Register
Pre-Registration is required. Limited space available. Visit https://www.sdl.usu.edu/media-events/events/next-gen for more details.

Contact: Stephanie Halton
Email: stephanie.halton@sdl.usu.edu

Ground communication is critical to the success of a space mission. Decisions on licensing and managing ground early in the mission is just as important as planning for launch and early operations. Come hear from RBC Signals about common challenges to ground communications including legal and regulatory, architecture planning, and bringing data to the ground.

Contact: Sean McClinton
Email: sean@rbcsignals.com

Advanced on-orbit data processing using the SpaceCloud technologies are presented and discussed, with focus on the experience gained from ongoing missions.

Contact: Mathias Persson
Email: mathias.persson@unibap.com

Radiation Test Solutions, Inc. will be providing an introductory training module for radiation effects on space systems. This training course will cover space radiation sources, and the temporal and spatial variations in these environments. The basic interactions of radiation in materials, and how that manifests in mechanical, optical, and electrical degradation. Discussion of mitigation techniques will also be covered, along with approaches for analysis and testing to verify the radiation resilience of the design.

Contact: Siri Speegle
Email: sspeegle@radiationtestsolutions.com

Sidus Space makes it easy for a corporation, industry or vertical to start their journey off-planet with our rapidly scalable, low-cost satellite services, space-based solutions and testing. More than a "Satellite-As-A-Service" provider, we become your trusted mission partner from concept to LEO and beyond. LizzieSat™ is optimized to meet the precise conditions of commercial and governmental demands in our increasingly interconnected, cloud-based, and data-driven world. We work collaboratively with our consumers to deliver effective solutions that tackle the world's most complex information challenges to improve your operations and drive growth.

Contact: Karen Soriano
Email: karen.soriano@sidusspace.com

The inter-satellite data links and ground stations utilizing optical communications technology will revolutionize the satellite ecosystem with higher bandwidth and increased accessibility. This session will give a high-level overview of what is going on in the optical communication industry and what we will offer.

Contact: Ryota Takahashi
Email: ryota.takahashi@warpspace.jp

In its 11th year, the Annual NASA Town Hall is a forum for scientists and technologists to hear about NASA’s current and future plans for small satellite missions and related technologies in the Space Technology (STMD), Science (SMD), Exploration Systems Development (ESDMD), and Space Operations (SOMD) mission directorates. This forum is designed to inform participants on upcoming funding opportunities for various types of projects across NASA in addition to sharing the status of current small spacecraft missions.

Contact: Julianna Fishman
Email: julianna.l.fishman@nasa.gov

The dynamics of space law and policy necessitate an acute and perpetual legal focus. Yet, many SmallSat operators may not yet enjoy general counsel, much less a fully staffed legal department. This Side Meeting will provide a condensed yet comprehensive legal primer for the SmallSat sector. How do we utilize streamlined regulations? What just happened in 2022? What do I need to be concerned about in 2023? How do we navigate the regulatory labyrinth? Beyond the planned content addressing these topics and more, questions will be welcomed and answered.

Contact: Charles Mudd
Email: charles@muddlaw.com

Loft Orbital flies customer payloads as a service. This session will walk through Loft Orbital's process and technologies, we'll open up our actual mission control system and perform actual mission operations in real time. We will also open up our flight and payload software development environment and push real software updates to a demo payload in real time. Together, these will provide a picture of how we actually make space simple, abstracting away the satellite's complexity from the payload.

Contact: Mitchell Scher
Email: mitchell@loftorbital.com

F Prime is an open-source flight software product line developed at NASA JPL that is well suited for small-scale systems such as CubeSats, SmallSats, and instruments. In addition to providing a configurable architectural framework and component library of commonly required capabilities, the product line includes a suite of tools that streamline the design, implementation, unit test and integrated V&V of the embedded software system in development. At this information session we will provide a brief overview of the F Prime architecture, software modeling front end and ground data system as well as discuss engagement with our growing user community.

Contact: Jeff Levison
Email: jeffrey.w.levison@jpl.nasa.gov

Using a satellite-based very low-frequency radar, Lunasonde makes the underground world visible, fundamentally transforming our understanding of planet earth. Lunasonde has built a system that allows us to find the resources the planet needs more efficiently and effectively than anyone else can. Lunasonde is pioneering subsurface imaging while providing a sustainable approach to resource exploration. Come meet the team and ask questions!

Contact: Jeremiah Pate
Email: jeremiah@lunasonde.com

The NOAA Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) will host an introductory-level session to explore the rules and regulations of licensing private remote sensing satellite systems in the United States. CRSRA representatives will deliver an interactive presentation and open the floor to questions and comments from the community.

Contact: Nathan Boll
Email: Nathan.boll@noaa.gov

As processing power increases onboard small satellites, the need for thermal control is vital. An optimized thermal design can make all the difference in mission success. Join ACT's McKenzie Read for a discussion on how to thread the needle between under design and overdesign. We'll dive into smart requirements definition, agile design and analysis, and cost-effective hardware from our extensive product lineup: from tried-and-true technology with millions of flight hours to newer innovative thermal techniques that support high power, high heat flux, broad temperature ranges, and lunar night survival. Learn how ACT and its products and services can support your mission at all stages.

Contact: McKenzie Read
Email: mckenzie.read@1-act.com

METI's Space Industry Office will provide information regarding: Japanese space industry's overview including startups and supply chain, inter-satellite-ground optical communication technology, VDES satellite, remote sensing satellite data platform and data sharing, hyper & multi spectrum satellite data utilization, radiation test ecosystem, satellite-system cybersecurity guideline, space robotics, lunar exploration technology, space solar power system, and etc.

Contact: Koji Ina
Email: ina-koji@meti.go.jp

The rapid rise in the utilization of small satellites for scientific, commercial, and societal benefits has been enabled and supported by a space environment that remains stable and accessible to all. However, the long-term sustainability of that environment faces challenges - both natural and human induced - that pose a risk to the continued stability of smallsat operations. This panel will discuss several of these risks, including anti-satellite testing and space weather, as space sustainability concerns. Why should a smallsat operator care about these problems and what opportunities exist for ensuring they don't affect future capabilities and data availability?

Contact: Ian Christensen
Email: ichristensen@swfound.org

It is great to gather Tbits of data from your satellite-based payload, but you have to get it to the ground. We would like to start a lively discussion on what is needed for the ground receive chain to get your mission data to your customers. We design high performance hardware so we can give you our perspective on how prequency bands, antenna technology, modcods, receive chain amplifiers, converters and link budgets affect how much data you can get through the pipe.

Contact: Ian McEachern
Email: imceachern@orbitalresearch.net

The following five Japanese companies will show their special space technologies, components and services and their secret stories: Crystal Optics/Kiyohara Optics, IHI Aerospace, Kawasaki Heavy Indusctry, Takasago Fluidic Systems and ArkEdge Space.

ONLY at Japanese Tech Show, you can reach more detailed specifications. Facilitated by Damian Shepard, RO1 Marketing.

Contact: Shinsaku Nakamura
Email: nakamura-shinsaku@jspacesystems.or.jp

NASA will present an overview of topics of interest to the community to include:

1. CyberSecurity and Enterprise Protection
2. Communications Licensing
3. Anomaly Reporting

A question and answer session will follow short presentations.

Contact: Julianna Fishman
Email: julianna.l.fishman@nasa.gov

Getting remote sensing data to the tactical edge at the speed of relevance is essential to support disaster relief and tactical military operations. This panel of U.S. Government and industry experts will discuss access to critical data in minutes to seconds, rather than hours, and the new technologies and services that accelerate timelines. Moderator: Rob Zitz, former Army, NGA and NRO executive.

Contact: Wendy Newman
Email: wnewman@eosspacelink.com

Come hear the latest about the SpaceX Rideshare program.

Contact: Jarrod McLachlan
Email: rideshare@spacex.com

We will be discussing how industry can connect transceivers to existing cellular infrastructure to get data to thousands of LEO satellites providing the lowest latency and highest data rates. By connecting to existing internet and telecom infrastructure, this would allow an economic means of up/downlinks to the satellites and cell phones.

Contact: Emilie Wren
Email: emilie.wren@arralis.us

Satellite operators of the future require a mission operations center that controls satellite communications, processes data, and scales to support the mission. Virtual mission operations architectures on AWS enable companies to achieve all these goals while increasing innovation and optimizing costs.

Contact: Margaret Cote
Email: margcote@amazon.com

NASA will host a topical discussion on the following subjects led by leadership from its Science Mission Directorate, Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate.

1. Access to Space
2. Conjunction Assessment and Mitigation per NASA Interim Directive D 7120.132

This moderated session offers an opportunity for exchange and interaction with those leading NASA's small spacecraft efforts.

Contact: Julianna Fishman
Email: julianna.l.fishman@nasa.gov

Kayhan Space is excited to offer an educational session on the use of its Conjunction Assessment tool to simulate how operators manage collision risk for their satellites. Students who are interested in Space Traffic Management (STM) will have the unique opportunity to learn about how the Kayhan system helps satellite operators monitor and avoid collisions. Ultimately, they will gain real-time experience using the system themselves.

Contact: Greg Ruda
Email: greg@kayhan.space

Leanspace will be demonstrating how our integration with Valispace offers digital continuity between the design and operation of satellites. We will show how you can import assets designed in Valispace and integrate them with Leanspace’s operations cloud services to set up an agile infrastructure for your mission.

Contact: Alvaro Alonso Ruiz
Email: alvaro@leanspace.io

The following five Japanese companies will show their special space technologies, components and services and their secret stories: KYOCERA CORPORATION, Interstellar Technologies, NIKON, WARPSPACE and Mitsubishi Electric TOKKI Systems.
ONLY at Japanese Tech Show, you can reach more detailed specifications. Facilitated by Damian Shepard, RO1 Marketing.

Contact: Shinsaku Nakamura
Email: nakamura-shinsaku@jspacesystems.or.jp

Space industry disruptors are leveraging the AWS Cloud to increase agility, innovate faster, and reduce costs. We invite you to join the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team to learn how companies, from startups to large enterprises, benefit from the more than 200 fully featured AWS services to accelerate missions and create new products. For attendees new to the AWS Cloud and interested in how to get started, we’ll provide details on accessing resources (business development, technical workshops, solutions architects, and credits) to help jumpstart your Launch with AWS.

Contact: Jason de la Fuente
Email: fuenjaso@amazon.com

Flexible and low-cost launch capabilities, that's what we offer! Learn more about the Isar Aerospace, our approach to development, manufacturing and technology!

Contact: Tina Schmitt
Email: tina.schmitt@isaraerospace.com

The purpose of the workshop is to allow potential users of the Lunar Pathfinder communication services to understand what level of service they could expect for their specific lunar mission: coverage, data-rate, contact opportunities. The workshop will introduce the Lunar Pathfinder service offerings; users will be able to log into the "mission builder tool" developed by SSTL Lunar, input mission parameters and generate a first performance assessment. The SSTL team will be there to discuss the results with the attendants and discuss next steps with them (technical and commercial).

Contact: Nelly Offord
Email: nofford@sstl.co.uk

The temperature, UV, radiation - basic challenges for every space engineer. Every day we deal with hard space environment which has a great impact to payload's mechanical structure, lenses, mirrors and electronics. This is especially important in optical instruments, because even micrometers of dislocation can result in distorted and unfocused images. Space teams do their best to prepare for the launch day, despite facing difficulties. Scanway, specialists of optical payloads development, will talk about hard space environment, requirements, problems and how to deal with them.

Contact: Mikolaj Podgorski
Email: m.podgorski@scanway.pl

Do you have a mission in mind or want to develop an application for space? Do you have an algorithm for space debris mitigation or a GPS on Mars? This session will walk you through how your mission application can be enabled using our space-resilient computing platform and show live examples demonstrating how easy it is to deploy your application. Leave the complexity of working in space to us.

Contact: Ami Lifshitz
Email: ami.lifshitz@ramon.space

"Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart". Kipling's description of Auckland, New Zealand is even truer for Awarua Satellite Ground Station at 46 degrees S, the southernmost part of the country. Extremely low licence fees (there are no landing fees), even lower EMI and a flat horizon, complemented by deca-Gbps Internet makes an environment most ground segment engineers can only dream of. This seminar will discuss why Awarua is so fantastic, and how to lease antennas, or have your own antennas hosted there, and lessons learnt. All mission designers and GS engineers are welcome.

Contact: Robin McNeill
Email: robin.mcneill@spaceops.nz

Hear from government and industry experts on how we can meet the unique needs of proliferated satellite constellations. Topics will include volume production, cybersecurity hardening, access to space, inter-satellite links, and more.

Moderator: Al Tadros, Chief Technology Officer, Redwire
Col. Rhet Turnbull, Deputy Director, Space Systems Integration Office, Space Systems Command
Jason Mello, President, Space Transport Services, Firefly Aerospace
Valerie Skarupa, President, Dark Star Space
Dean Bellamy, EVP, National Security Space, Redwire
Kyle Kemble, Space Data Transport Division Chief, Space Warfighting Analysis Center, U.S. Space Force

Contact: Omar Mahmoud
Email: omar.mahmoud@redwirespace.com

Program executives from NASA's Science Mission Directorate will present overviews of small spacecraft-related opportunities available in NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2022 solicitation. A question-and-answer period will follow.

Contact: Julianna Fishman
Email: julianna.l.fishman@nasa.gov

From commercial applications to national security needs, new space is the hottest career available. How does a company or government agency recruit and retain top talent? Moderated by senior US government and industry executive Rob Zitz, the panel of experts will explore best practices in space talent acquisition.

Contact: Robert Zitz
Email: robert.zitz@rzastrategies.com

Discussion on challenges of a cube sat battery design high in energy density yet protects against thermal runaway. A cube sat battery design that is JSC20793 compliant, which is required for flight on a crewed vehicle.

Contact: Chase Rodriguez
Email: chase.rodriguez@kulrtechnology.com

The UK is building one of the most innovative, attractive space economies in the world. Engage with a cross-government and industry panel on why the UK is the premier destination for developing, licensing, launching and exploiting small satellites and other pioneering space services. Whether you are an established space company, a start-up or a new entrant to the sector, based in the UK or overseas, you will hear how you can be part of a thriving space ecosystem that offers everything you need to succeed in the new space age.

Contact: Naia Park
Email: naia.park@mobile.trade.gov.uk

Space ISAC facilities collaboration across the global space community. Our diverse base of members and partners are active contributors to regular discussions about security for space systems. The SmallSat Community of Interest comprises small satellite owners, operators, and service providers, and collaborates with government to identify, analyze, and develop mitigation strategies. Goals of session are to learn about recent attacks related to the Ukrainian conflict, learn about the Satellite Cybersecurity Act from DHS who will emphasize the importance of cybersecurity for satellites and their partnership with Space ISAC.

Contact: Whitney Jones
Email: whitney.jones@cyber-center.org

Join us to learn how to get completely free or greatly reduced COTS flight and ground software for student missions and projects. Learn how off-the-shelf software can significantly speed up development and simplify your mission, watch a quick demo, and sign up for the Bright Start programme.

Contact: Olga Garvin
Email: olga.garvin@brightascension.com

To foster continuity and advancement within the small satellite community, the Space Dynamics Laboratory is hosting a workshop following the annual Small Satellite Conference. The workshop will explore the role of small satellites within a resilient architecture to preserve freedom of action in space.

Workshop benefits include:

• Relevant government agency briefings on small satellite technical topics
• Opportunities to exchange information concerning upcoming technical needs and requirements
• Networking luncheon and evening social

Separate registration required. Visit https://www.sdl.usu.edu/media-events/events/technical-workshop for more information.