Lean Satellite Webinar Series (2021)
As part of the "CubeSat Interface Project", Kyutech is hosting a webinar series for the benefit of Lean Sat community members. Each webinar is 60 minutes in length and covers some topic related to Lean Satellites, and touches upon the issue of CubeSat interface standardization.
The plan is to do a webinar once a month for a few months, and see how it goes.
Presentation files will be collected and archived below.
Please visit this site each month to view a new presentation file from the webinar speaker, in case you were not able to attend the webinar in real time.
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The first speaker was Daniel Rockberger, who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 12 April 2021. The title was, "POWERFUL Connectivity Everywhere: From prototype to constellation".
He is co-founder and chief engineer of NSLComm.
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The second speaker was Prof. Fernando Aguado, who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 19 May 2021. The title was, "MBSE: The path to Small Satellites Modelling".
He is a professor of Vigo University (Spain) and is also an Adjunct Professor at NTNU (Norway).
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The third speaker was Tuomas Tikka (CTO of Reaktor Space Lab), who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 7 June 2021. The title was, "Lean satellites as a tool for solving global challenges".
Tikka received the "Finnish Engineer of the Year" award in 2019.
Recently, Tikka and the company have been concentrating in developing and launching a commercial hyperspectral nanosatellite fleet for global monitoring -- to offer frequent high-resolution data and analytics products for the use of more sustainable industrial and agricultural practices.
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The fourth speaker was Cesar Bernal Franco (System Engineer, ESA), who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 12 July 2021. The title was, "Lean Satellites at ESA". (ESA=European Space Agency) Cesar Bernal has more than 13 years of relevant work experience in various aerospace fields. This experience was acquired working on and with space agencies (ESA), industry (ISIS, AIRBUS, ITP) and academia (UPM). He is currently working as System Engineer at the Small Satellite Platform Unit at ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Centre) establishment of ESA in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
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The fifth speaker was Oliver Ruf (CTO, Smart Small Satellite Systems), who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 20 August 2021. The title was, "Lean concepts enabling formations of cooperating satellites".
During 2014-2015 he was working as a young graduate trainee in the Advanced Mission Concepts Team at ESOC in Darmstadt in order to validate advanced technologies for telerobotics from space using the ISS. In 2015 he moved to ZfT, where he was responsible for space test facilities. Furthermore, he was the responsible test engineer for several satellite projects, e.g. UWE-4, NetSat, QUBE, TOM. Since 2020 Oliver Ruf has been with Smart Small Satellite Systems GmbH.
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The sixth speaker was Franco Perez (ESA, Systems Department, TEC, system engineer) who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 13 September 2021.
The webinar title was, "ESA Cubesat Missions overview and the challenges of a ride to Deep Space". Franco has been involved in more than 15 CubeSat studies and missions as a system engineer. Also he developed cleanroom activities as assembly, integration, and verification engineer, and executor of environmental test campaigns. At ESA, he is involved in Cubesat LEO and Deep Space Missions, supporting the design and development of the missions.
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The seventh speaker was Artur Scholz (ESA, Spacecraft Operations Engineer) who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 6 October 2021. The title of his webinar was: "Applying International Space Standards to CubeSat Projects".
Artur is actively promoting the idea of open source to space exploration and has given numerous talks on this topic. His vision is that everyone with the interest in space should be able to contribute. He founded the "LibreCube Initiative" to promote open source space engineering with a focus on harnessing the knowledge embodied in openly available international space standards.
See: https://librecube.org/people/artur-scholz/
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The eigth speaker was Pauline Faure (Cal Poly Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering Department) who conducted the webinar via ZOOM on 25 Nov. 2021 at 9:00 AM JST.
The title of Dr Faure's webinar was: "Aqiwo -- A Controlled, Educational, and Open-Source Satellite Platform to Enable Diverse Communities to Learn Space Engineering through Hands-On Activities".
Dr. Faure's research focuses on the adaptation and usage of space systems as an educative tool to build capabilities and support sustainable space activities for local communities, first time developers, and emerging space faring nations. In 2021, to support her research vision, Dr. Faure established ETOILES, a research laboratory dedicated to the development of Educational Technologies for Open and Interactive Learning via the Engineering of Small Spacecraft. ETOILES has over 40 undergraduate students and 4 graduate students working on varied projects from a flight mission to demonstrate space-based solar power system capabilities with small satellites to the development of an educational and controlled satellite platform.
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