Weekday Session 2: Missions at Scale

Over-The-Vacuum Update – Starlink’s Approach for Reliably Upgrading Software on Thousands of Satellites

Akash Badshah, Space Exploration Technologies
Natalie Morris, Space Exploration Technologies
Matthew Monson, Space Exploration Technologies

Utah State University, Logan, UT

4:30 PM

HelioSwarm: The Swarm is the Observatory

Butler Hine, NASA Ames Research Center
Brittany Wickizer, NASA Ames Research Center

Utah State University, Logan, UT

4:45 PM

Active Swarm Resiliency in the HelioSwarm Mission

Maxwell Joyner, NASA Ames Research Center
Laura Plice, NASA Ames Research Center

Utah State University, Logan, UT

5:00 PM

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Enabling Large-Scale Science in a Microsat Constellation

Ronnie Killough, Southwest Research Institute
Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute
Daniel B. Seaton, Southwest Research Institute
Keith Smith, Southwest Research Institute
J. Marcus Hughes, Southwest Research Institute
Chris Lowder, Southwest Research Institute
Ritesh Patel, Southwest Research Institute
Matthew J. West, Southwest Research Institute

Utah State University, Logan, UT

5:15 PM

FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2: Impacts on Global Operational Forecasting and Future Architectures With a SmallSat Constellation

William Gullotta, COSMIC, UCAR Community Programs
John Braun, COSMIC, UCAR Community Programs
Jan-Peter Weiss, COSMIC, UCAR Community Programs

Utah State University, Logan, UT

5:30 PM

A Small Satellite Constellation for Monitoring of the Aurora

Giada Staniscia, OHB Sweden
Bastiaan Lagaune, OHB Sweden
Sten Berge, OHB Sweden
Milan Battelino, OHB Sweden
Stefan Kraft, ESOC - European Space Agency

Utah State University, Logan, UT

5:45 PM

An Overview of Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy at NASA Ames

Caleb Adams, NASA Ames Research Center
Brian Kempa, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Iatauro, NASA Ames Research Center
Jeremy Frank, NASA Ames Research Center
Walter Vaughan, University of Pittsburgh

Utah State University, Logan, UT

6:00 PM