April 25-27, 2023
San Luis Obispo, CA
WELCOME
Welcome to the 2023 CubeSat Developers Workshop!
For the next three days you will be immersed in all things CubeSat — from attending presentations on today’s research and innovation, to networking and making new friends at banquet, to attending additional meetings all week long — there are countless things to do! We are so happy to have you join the CubeSat Community here in sunny San Luis Obispo, we hope you enjoy your time!
The goal was to make space accessible to university students, but it has since extended far beyond that. People from all over the world have discovered this affordable way to conduct research in space and the CubeSat standard has now been adopted by hundreds of organizations worldwide. It has truly revolutionized the way people learn about space. The past 20 years have been so transformative for the aerospace industry, and CubeSats have played a big part in that. This year we recognize their role, look back at their many accomplishments, and turn to the future to see how we can make the next 20 years even better. CubeSat developers from academia and industry are brought together to share their knowledge and experience developing small satellites using the increasingly popular small satellite platform. There will be key-note speakers representing different segments of the community, as well as talks ranging in subject from emerging technologies and new developments in the field to mission success stories and current design considerations. Exhibitors will also be present to offer information and discussion of their own experiences and roles within the community. With so many people joining the community, we hope to continue advancing the industry by sharing our knowledge here at the 20th Annual CubeSat Developers Workshop. We are so happy to have you here, and we hope you leave inspired and ready to transform space!
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess
Commander, Combined Force Space Component Command, U.S. Space Command; and Vice Commander, Space Operations Command, U.S. Space Force, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess is the Commander, Combined Force Space Component Command, U.S. Space Command; and Vice Commander, Space Operations Command, U.S. Space Force, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. General Schiess leads more than 17,000 joint and combined personnel with a mission to plan, integrate, conduct and assess global space operations to deliver combat relevant space capabilities to combatant commanders, coalition partners, the joint force and the nation. The General plans and executes space operations through four distinct and geographically dispersed operations centers, including the Combined Space Operations Center at Vandenberg SFB, California; the Missile Warning Center at Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, Colorado; the Joint Overhead Persistent Infrared Planning Center at Buckley SFB, Colorado; and the Joint Navigation Warfare Center located at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.
General Schiess entered the Air Force as a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1992 and transferred to the United States Space Force in 2022. He has commanded the 4th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo; the 45th Operations Group at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.; the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo; and the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. He deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in support of operations Enduring Freedom, Resolute Support, and Inherent Resolve. His staff assignments include Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Headquarters Space Operations Command, the Air Staff and Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Prior to his current assignment, General Schiess was the Deputy Commanding General, Operations, Headquarters Space Operations Command.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Doug Hulse
Sensing Portfolio Director at Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company
Doug Hulse is responsible for leading all sensing programs, including missile warning, tracking and defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and RF. Millennium Space Systems delivers high-performing prototype and constellation solutions across advanced national security and environmental observation missions. Founded in 2001, the company’s small satellite missions support government, civil and commercial space customers’ needs across orbits.
With more than 17 years of aerospace experience, Doug has demonstrated success in leading the development and on-orbit operations of small satellite prototypes and constellations. Prior to Millennium Space Systems, he held various engineering and managerial roles with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Doug earned his bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
SILVER
BRONZE
Tuesday April 26
WORKSHOP AGENDA
0900 - 1000 Welcome & Keynote
900 Welcome and Keynote Introduction
Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
915 Keynote 1
1000 - 1030 Break
1030 - 1200 Session 1: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going?
1030 The Cubesat Revolution: Lessons Learned, Applied, and Advanced from the Apollo Decade
Pamela Clark, Morehead State University
1045 Lessons Learned from the NUTSAT Mission
Kuang-Han Ke, Gran Systems Co., Ltd.
1100 TechEdSat 7, 10, 13, 15: Exo-Brake Experiments on Orbit
Avery Brock, KBR, NASA Ames Research Center
1115 Development of Two High-Energy Bus ‘Cores’ for Rapid Support of Low-TRL and Educational Payloads: A Software-Configured EPS Combined with Flexible C&DH
Avery Brock, KBR, NASA Ames Research Center
1130 On-Orbit Operations and Lasercom Experiment Results To Date for the CLICK-A Mission
Peter Grenfell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1145 TOLIMAN Mission - In Search of Extraterrestrial Life
Viktoriya Dimov, EnduroSat
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1430 Session 2: Community Knowledge
1300 Statistical updating of a Satellite Structure
Malarvizhi SN, URSC INDIA
1315 Inducing cellular hibernation to enable advanced biological research on CubeSat missions
Chris Mehner, Mayo Clinic
1330 Analyzing CubeSat Designs For Passive Attitude Stabilization Using Aerodynamic Torque Disturbance
Muhammad Taha Arshad, Saeed Ansari, Khalifa University
1345 Falcon-RAD: A Dosimeter Payload for CubeSats
Elliott Kmetz, U.S. Air Force Academy, Space Physics and Atmospheric Research Center
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Tuesday April 26
1400 Monitoring Solar Effect with CubeSats on Cosmic Ray Flux Variation at Sea Level
Victoria Padgett, Georgia State University
1415 An Overview of Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy at NASA Ames
Caleb Adams, NASA Ames
1430 Incorporating Next-Level Modularity with a Standard Bus CubeSat
Alexandra Harrison, United States Naval Academy
1445 - 1500 Break
1500 - 1700 Session 3: Workforce Development and Educational Programs
1500 Empowering K-12 Students to Tackle Real-World Challenges in Space Engineering: A Collaboration between MaxIQ Space and bluShift Aerospace
Judi Sandrock, MaxIQ Space
1515 3UCubed: Command and Data Handling
Shane Woods, University of New Hampshire
1530 Academic CubeSats are the Stroads of the New Space Industry: Case Studies in Why Academic CubeSat Programs Struggle
Michael Pham, Blue Dot Consortium | The Spacecraft Company
1545 PROVES: Enabling Repeatable and Sustainable CubeSat Education with a $1000 Open CubeSat Kit
Megan Beck, Bronco Space - PROVES
1600 Space Science and Engineering Workforce Development at UNLV
Ke-Xun Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1615 Payload Design of RHOK-SAT, a 1U CubeSat to Characterize Perovskites in LEO
Jose Pastrana, Rhodes College
1630 A Bimodal 3U-CubeSat Mission to Measure the Effects of Solar Particle Events on the Earth’s Atmosphere
1800 - 2200
James Crawford, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Networking Dinner SLO Brew Rock
Wednesday, April 26th
WORKSHOP AGENDA
0900 - 1000 Keynote & Welcome
900 Welcome and Keynote Introduction
Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
915 Keynote II
1000 - 1030 Break
1030 - 1200 Session 4: Testing & Reliability
1030 Acceptance Screening and Cell Matching: Achieving Optimal COTS Li-Ion Battery
Performance for Space Applications
Hari Ram Shrestha, Kyushu Institute of Technology
1045 NASA Cube Satellite Technical Development Materials: Guidebooks, Manuals, and Templates to Create Better Hardware and Successful Projects
Ali Guarneros, Luna NASA/SSTP
1100 Melting of Phase Change Material - Terrestrial vs. Space
Boris Yendler, YSPM
1115 Optimum Panel Deployment Angle for Passive Aerodynamic Attitude Stabilization in CubeSats
Muhammad Taha Ansari, Khalifa University
1130 Design, Testing, and Operation of a Beacon Laser for a Portable Satellite Laser Communication Ground Terminal
Nicholas Belsten, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1145 Development of a Passive Propagation Resistant Battery for Smallsat Payloads
Chase Rodriguez, KULR Technology Corporation
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1445 Session 5: Launch
1300 CubeSat Launch Initiative Update
Liam Cheney, NASA
1315 National Student Space Challenge - an Australian scoping study
Arvind Ramana, Australian Space Agency
1330 Developing a Comprehensive and Collaborative Application for the FAA License to Operate an Educational Access-Focused Commercial Spaceport Speakers from the City of Paso Robles and Cal Poly
1345 Software Design of RHOK-SAT, a 1U CubeSat to Characterize Perovskites in LEO
Jose Pastrana, Rhodes College
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Wednesday April 27
1400 Advancing Small Spacecraft Technologies Through Suborbital and Orbital Flight Testing
Danielle McCulloch, NASA Flight Opportunities
1415 New Perspectives and Options on Orbital Debris
Joe Carroll, Tether Applications, Inc.
1430 In Space experience providing InOrbit NOW services for satellite precise deployment and technology IOD
Matteo Andreas Lorenzoni, D-Orbit
1445 - 1515 Break
1515 - 1700 Session 6: Subsystems
1515 Testing of COTS Lidar for Rendezvous & Proximity Operations Missions
Julian Garcia, Pegasus Intelligence & Space
1530 Design and Qualification of SADA Systems for CubeSat Missions
Ryan Nugent, DHV
1545 High-performance CubeSat Subsystems
Yang Xu, Dalian University of Technology
1600 From Leo To Mars: Gnc Solutions For Non-Leo Missions On A Common Software Platform
Steve Stem, Blue Canyon Technologies
1615 CubeSat-scale Robotic Arms in Space
Noah Loftis, United States Naval Academy RSAT team
1630 Demonstrating New Attachment Technology for On-Orbit Docking
Simon Lee, Cambrian Works
1645 Onboard Data Handling to feed both Backup Beacon and TT&C Radio Downlinks
Paula do Vale Pereira, Florida Institute of Technology &. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, April 27th
900 Welcome
WORKSHOP AGENDA
0915 - 1030 Session 7: Communications
915 Flying Ducks in Space
Steve Dunton, Cal Poly EE Dept
930 A shortest-path optimization algorithm for ground station and satellite clusters communication
Bérenger Villat, Leaf Space
945 Comparing evolutionary algorithms to derivative-based methods for optimizing laser-based ranging and communications
Joseph Conroy, University of Florida
1000 On the development of high-performance Antenna sub-systems for Small Satellite Platforms
Miguel Alejandro Salas-Natera, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
1015
Modular SDR platform for high performance space missions
María Marante Boado, Alén Space
1030 - 1100 Break
1100 - 1215
1115
1130
Session 8: Thermal & Electrical
RebelSat-1: Doped Poly-CO Measurements in Low Earth Orbit
Petar Matejic, RebelSat UNLV
Bronco Space - PROVES - Electrical Subsystem
Tim Bogman, Bronco Space - PROVES
1145 AMDROHP Updates
Mike and Gavin, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
1200 Research on an Innovative High-Reliability Attitude Measurement
Unit of Micro/Nano Satellite
Yuchi Chen, Dalian University of Technology
1215
CubeSats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys
Hannah Gulick, University of California, Berkeley
1230 - 1330 Thermal Panel
1330-1700 Move Out
1830 - 2030 Farmer’s Market
EXHIBIT MAPS
MAIN LOBBY
Key:
M1 and M2 — NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program / Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute
M3 — NASA Ames Research Center
M4 — CSLI
M5 — Millennium Space
M6 — VACCO
M7 — 20 Years of CubeSat Developers Workshop
M8 — Blue Canyon
M9 — CubeSpace
M10 — Pumpkinl
M11 — Morehead State University
M12 — LeafSpace
M13 — Cambrian
M14 — DHV
M15 — AMMOS
Key:
Women’s Restroom
LL1 — USSF 18th
LL2 — MMA Design
LL3 — DX Hub
LL4 — Nanoracks
LL5 — Terran
LL6 — Gran Systems
EXHIBIT MAPS
LOWER LEVEL
Men’sRestroom
EXHIBIT MAPS
Key:
B1 — Quartus
B2 — PolySat
B3 — TRL11 Inc.
B4 — Interstel Technologies
Seating Area
Seating Area
Founder’s Room
Green Room & Small Meeting Rooms
EXHIBIT MAPS
Large Meeting Rooms
Auditorium Seating Pavilion
Stage
Main Lobby
EXHIBIT MAPS
Charging
EXHIBIT MAPS
LARGE MEETING ROOMS
To other Meeting Rooms
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GREEN ROOM & SMALL
Room 111 Room 110
Green Room (109) Stage
Auditorium Seating
ADDITIONAL MEETINGS
SmallSat Reliability Meeting 1-2pm, Wednesday 4/26 UU220
At present, CubeSat components and buses are generally not appropriate for missions where significant risk of failure, or the inability to quantify risk or confidence, is acceptable. However, in the future, we anticipate that CubeSats will be used for missions requiring reliability of 1-3 years for Earth missions and even longer for Planetary and Heliophysics missions. Historically, it was understood and accepted that “high risk” and “CubeSat” were largely synonymous; expectations were set accordingly. But their growing potential utility is driving an interagency effort to improve and quantify CubeSat reliability, and more generally, small satellite mission risk. The Small Satellite Reliability Initiative (SSRI) targets this challenge.
LunarCubes 8am-12pm, Friday 4/28 UU219
It has been quite a year for CubeSats beyond Earth orbit! One area remaining unresolved is in the development of the CubeSat paradigm for more diverse and complex payloads targeting cislunar space. For LunarCubes this year, we will consider what we have in mind for these lunar payloads and where we go from here.
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