Highlights and lessons learned from missions flown over the last 18 months as well as a preview of future scheduled missions.

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Schedule
2009
Tuesday, August 11th
10:45 AM

Blue Marble: Remote Characterization of Habitable Planets

Neville Woolf, University of Arizona
Brian Lewis, The Aerospace Corporation
James Chartres, NASA Ames Research Center
Anthony Genova, NASA Ames Research Center

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

System Outline of Small Standard Bus and ASNARO Spacecraft

Toshiaki Ogawa, NEC Corporation
Keita Miyazaki, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF)
Osamu Itoh, New EnergyIndustrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

Small Satellite Rendezvous and Characterization of Asteroid 99942 Apophis

James Chartres, Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley
David Dunham, Space NavigationFlight Dynamics, KinetX, Inc.
Bobby Williams, Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics, KinetX, Inc.
Anthony Genova, NASA Ames Research Center
Anthony Colaprete, NASA Ames Research Center
Ronald Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center
Belgacem Jaroux, NASA Ames Research Center

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

BX-1: the Companion Microsatellite in Shenzhou-7 Mission

Zhencai Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongyu Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wen Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yilin Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Caixia Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

Spin Dynamics of the Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed Spacecraft

Siegfried Janson, The Aerospace Corporation
David Hinkley, The Aerospace Corporation

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Canadian Advanced Nanospace Experiment 2 Orbit Operations: One Year of Pushing the Nanosatellite Performance Envelope

Karan Sarda, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Cordell Grant, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Stuart Eagleson, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Daniel Kekez, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Amee Shah, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Robert Zee, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

Delfi-C3 Preliminary Mission Results

Robbert Hamann, Delft University of Technology
Jasper Bouwmeester, Delft University of Technology
Geert Brouwer, Delft University of Technology

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

RapidEye System Commissioning and On-Orbit Performance

Daniel Schulten, MDA
George Tyc, MDA
Yolanda Brown, MDA
Joe Steyn, MDA
Norman Hannaford, MDA
Wade Larson, MDA

12:30 PM

12:45 PM

Initial Flight Results from the PharmaSat Biological Microsatellite Mission

Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University
Karolyn Ronzano, Santa Clara University
Richard Rasay, Santa Clara University
Ignacio Mas, Santa Clara University
Jose Acain, Santa Clara University
Michael Neumann, Santa Clara University
Laura Bica, Santa Clara University
Paul Mahacek, Santa Clara University
Giovanni Minelli, Santa Clara University
Erin Beck, Santa Clara University
Steve Li, Santa Clara University
Brian Gamp, Santa Clara University
Seamus Agnew, Santa Clara University
John Shepard, Santa Clara University
John Hines, NASA Ames Research Center
Elwood Agasid, NASA Ames Research Center
Charlie Friedericks, NASA Ames Research Center
Matthew Piccini, NASA Ames Research Center
Macarena Parra, NASA Ames Research Center
Linda Timucin, NASA Ames Research Center
C. Beasley, NASA Ames Research Center
Mike Henschke, NASA Ames Research Center
Ed Luzzi, NASA Ames Research Center
Nghia Mai, NASA Ames Research Center
Mike McIntyre, NASA Ames Research Center
Robert Ricks, NASA Ames Research Center
Antonio Ricco, NASA Ames Research Center
David Squires, NASA Ames Research Center
Greg Yost, NASA Ames Research Center
Defouw, NASA Ames Research Center
Aaron Schooley, NASA Ames Research Center
Diana Ly, NASA Ames Research Center
Millan Diaz-Aguado, NASA Ames Research Center
Eric Stackpole, NASA Ames Research Center
Orlando Diaz, NASA Ames Research Center,
Tammy Doukas, NASA Ames Research Center

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

Nanosatellite Tracking Ships: From Concept To Launch In 7 Months

Freddy Pranajaya, University of Toronto
Robert Zee, University of Toronto
Jeff Cain, COM DEV Limited
Richard Kolacz, COM DEV Limited

1:00 PM