CUBESAT DEVELOPER’S WORKSHOP
April 23–25, 2024
San Luis Obispo, CA
WELCOME
Welcome to the 2024 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!
1999 – THE YEAR IT ALL BEGAN
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
Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari
Grandfather of CubeSats
Dr. Puig-Suari received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. Dr. Puig-Suari is a professor emeritus in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
In 1999, Dr Puig-Suari and Prof. Bob Twiggs at Stanford developed the CubeSat standard. Dr. Puig-Suari’s team was responsible for the development of the standard CubeSat deployer (the P-POD) and has supported launches for over 130 CubeSats in the U.S. and abroad.
In 2011, Dr. Puig-Suari co-founded Tyvak Nano-satellite Systems to support the commercial CubeSat market.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Randy Yount
Director, Mission Operations Engineering at Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company
Millennium Space Systems is a small satellite prime, delivering operational highperformance constellation solutions for National Security Space. Founded in 2001, the company’s active production lines and 80% vertical integration enable the rapid delivery of small satellites across missions and orbits – LEO, MEO and GEO.
As director, Yount is responsible for overseeing the in-space and ground segment components of the company’s satellite systems. He has more than 19 years of experience flying high-profile missions across orbits and vehicle types, with an emphasis on anomaly resolution and flexibility of operations. Prior to Millennium Space Systems, Yount was with The Boeing Company, focusing on GNC and spacecraft dynamics, operating more than 30 commercial and government satellites and leading the anomaly response teams for in-flight vehicles across the Boeing 702 satellite fleet.
Yount earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in aerospace engineering.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Tuesday April 23rd
0900 - 1000 Welcome & Keynote
900 Welcome and Keynote Introduction
Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
910 Keynote I
Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari
1000 - 1020 Break
1020 - 1200 Session 1
1020 BioSentinel: Forging the path for Deep Space CubeSat Missions
Ben Bradley, NASA Ames Research Center
1040 SNIPE Mission: Formation Flying Nano-satellites for Small Scale
Space Weather Research
Jaejin Lee, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
1100 Space Duck 2024: The Final Frontier (Phase II STTR)
Steve Dunton, Cal Poly
1120 CLIMB: A CubeSat mission to the Van Allen Belt
Carsten Scharlemann, FHWN
1140 Bridging the Gap: A Standard Bus For Nonstandard Payload
George Hollister, United States Naval Academy
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1430 Session 2
1300 CubeSat Relativistic Electron and Proton Energy Separator
Sapphira Akins, University of Hawaii at Manoa
1320 Monitoring Solar Effect with CubeSats on Cosmic Ray Flux
Variation at Sea Level
Victoria Padgett, Georgia State University
1340 Development and Testing of an TDC-based data and timing transfer scheme for the CLICK mission
Thomas Schwarze, University of FloridaMechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Tuesday April 23rd
1400 Falcon-RAD Joint Military Academy CubeSat & Interface Board
Raj Raghulan, USAFA
1420 Implementation of a Cryogenic Optical Instrument in a 12U CubeSat: The Doppler Wind and Temperature Sensor (DWTS) Flight Experiment
Marcus Murbach, NASA Ames Research Center
1440 - 1500 Break
1500 - 1720 Session 3
1500 Small Satellite Deployable Radiator Study
Trystan Madison, The Aerospace Corporation
1520 Off-Axis Reflective Optics for EO/IR Camera Onboard CubeSat: Linear
Astigmatism Free - Three Mirror System
Soojong Pak, Kyung Hee University
1540 A Preliminary Architecture for a Modular and Scalable Edge
Computing System for Small Spacecraft
Kelly Williams, Bronco Space | Cal Poly Pomona
1600 Passive orbital debris deployable collector: smallsat demonstration mission
Imraan Faruque, Oklahoma State University
1620 Electroadhesive Technology Enabled CubeSat Missions
Kalia Crowder, Cambrian Works, Inc.
1640 CubeSat-scale Robotic Arms in Space
Noah Loftis, United States Naval Academy
1700 SeaLion Doppler & Comms USCG Payload
Richard Freeman, US Coast Guard Academy
1720 Closing Remarks
1800 - 2200 Networking Dinner SLO Brew Rock
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Wednesday, April 24th
0900 - 1000 Keynote & Welcome
900 Welcome and Keynote Introduction
Dr. John Bellardo, Cal Poly CubeSat Lab
905 Keynote II
Randy Yount
930 - 1000 Break
1000 - 1200 Session 4
1000 3UCubed: Command and Data Handling, and Flight Software
Shane Woods, 3UCubed
1020 Preliminary Implementation of the F’ Software Framework for Management of Machine Learning Algorithms in Space Applications
Alex Mariano, Bronco Space | Cal Poly Pomona
1040 Deploying and optimizing onboard machine learning algorithms with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
David Besson, Amazon Web Services
1100 Enabling and Leveraging Industry to Advance Small Spacecraft Technologies
Rodolphe De Rosee and Samson Phan, NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and Small Spacecraft Technology program
1120 Standards for Laser and High-Frequency Space Links
Thom Stone, Axient Inc.
1140 InOrbit NOW: In-orbit transportation services for satellites and responsive hosted payload IOD
Matteo Andreas Lorenzoni, D-Orbit
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1500 Session 5
1300 CubeSat Launch Initiative Update
Norman Phelps and Creg Raffington, NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative
1320 Additive Manufacturing in Developing a Universal CubeSat Technology Testbed
Sharlene Nazari, Cal Poly Pomona
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Wednesday April 24th
1340 Warm Isostatic Press for Additively Manufactured ABS Outgassing Reduction in CubeSats
Jackee Gwynn, United States Naval Academy
1400 Space Program Success as a Function of Space Accessibility: A Study into Developer Tools to Increase the Probability of Success
Jesse Reynolds, Bronco Space | Cal Poly Pomona
1420 Low-Profile, CubeSat SADA
Alexi Rakow, MMA Design LLC
1440 Can CubeSat ESD Qualification Testing with sound Packaging Engineering Protocols before Launch ensure Successful Deployment for Space Survivability?
Bob Vermillion, RMV Technology Group
1500 - 1530 Break
1530 - 1710 Session 6
1530 The PY4 Mission: A Low-Cost Demonstration of Multi-CubeSat Coordinateion
Zachary Manchester, Carnegie Mellon University
1550 SeaLion 3U Impedance Probe Space Plasma Measurement Investigations
Richard Freeman, US Coast Guard Academy, Old Dominion University, US Naval Research Laboratory, US Air Force Institute of Technology
1610 Affordable CubeSat format STEM experiments on ISS
Judi Sandrock, MaxIQ Space
1630 Integration and Testing of a Commercial ADCS for the Naval Academy Standard Bus
Dorian Williams, United States Naval Academy
1650 Increasing Production Efficiency through Automation with evolving BCT XB1 CubeSat Architectures
Graham Grable, Blue Canyon Technologies
1710 Closing Remarks
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Thursday, April 25th
0850 - 1030 Session 7
850 Design and Development of a CubeSat Robotic Arm for In-Orbit Inspection and Servicing
Alice Sukhostavskiy, Cal Poly
910 A Low-Cost Mobile Ground Station Kit for Amateur UHF Communications: POINTY
Adam Elsharhawy, Bronco Space | Cal Poly Pomona
930 An ongoing investigation on the measurement, analysis, and simulation of micro-vibrations with the aim to characterize reactions wheels for high-performance imaging missions
Marisa du Plessis, CubeSpace Satellite Systems
950 Cislunar Omnidirectional Optical Terminal for SmallSats
Jose Velazco, Chascii Inc.
1010 Advances in Technologies for Transmitters for CubeSats
Naresh Deo, QuinStar Technology
1030 - 1230 Career Fair
1830 - 2030 Farmer’s Market
EXHIBIT MAPS
MAIN
LOBBY
EXHIBIT MAPS
Key:
M1 and M2 —
NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program / Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute
M3 — NASA Ames Research Center
M4 — NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative
M5 — NASA Jet Propulsion Lab / Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System
M6 — Cubespace
M7 — DHV
M8 — Blue Canyon Technologies
M9 — Experior Laboratories
M10 — Vacco Industries
M11 — Terran Orbital
M12 — Gran Systems
M13 — Millennium Space Systems
M14 — Rydberg
M15 — Pumpkin Space Systems
M16 — Leaf Space
M17 — Maverick Space Systems
EXHIBIT MAPS
Founder’s Room
Seating Area
Seating Area
BALCONY
Elevator
Green Room & Small Meeting Rooms
EXHIBIT MAPS
Large Meeting Rooms
Main Lobby
Stage
Auditorium Seating Pavilion
GREEN ROOM & SMALL MEETING ROOMS
Green Room (109)
Auditorium Seating
LARGE MEETING ROOMS
Cal Poly CubeSat Staff Area
Room 117
Room 115
To other Meeting Rooms
Room 118
Cal Poly CubeSat Staff Area
Room 119 Room 120
Room 121
PAVILION
Charging
To Main Lobby
Station
How To Connect to WiFi:
1. Go to the Wi-Fi menu on your device and select CalPolyGuest.
2. The guest wifi login page should open automatically. If it doesn’t, launch a browser.
3. Click the Login button to accept the Guest Network Terms of Agreement.
4. You should now be connected to CalPolyGuest.
· The CalPolyGuest WiFi network is for Cal Poly guests only and does not give access to campus resources.
· Streaming is limited on the Guest network.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, you can contact us 24/7 via email at cubesat-workshop@calpoly.edu If it is an urgent matter, call (916) 945 - 8721, leave a voicemail with any questions or concerns and a way for us to reach you and you will hear back from us by the end of the week!