Catalog

Technical programme

SpaceOps-2023 — The 17th International Conference on Space Operations

1. Mission Design and Management (MDM)

(Subtopics) (1) Mission Design and Architectures (2) Mission Simulation and Modelling (3) Mission Design for Constellations (4) Mission Design for Robotic Missions (5) Multi-mission Approaches and Strategies (6) Revectoring Old Missions to New Tasks (7) Mission Design to limit Space Debris generation (8) Regulations and Laws Affecting Operations (9) International, Public, and Private Cooperation

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Young Lee
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — United States

Alice Bowman
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory — United States

2. Operations Concepts (OC)

(1) Operations Automation and Optimization (2) Operations Engineering (3) Operations Procedures Management (4) Operational Validation (5) Operations Concepts for Constellation & In Situ Ops (6) Operations Concepts for robotic missions (7) Payload Operations Concepts (8) Processes for Designing Operations

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Dave Welch
University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics — United States

Sabrina Eberle
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany

3. Flight Execution (FE)

(Subtopics) (1) Real-time flight control, lessons and plans (2) Operations Management (3) End of Life Operations (4) Fault Management and Recovery (5) Spacecraft Emergency and Contingency Operations (6) Evolving Mission Capabilities (7) Long-Range Planning and Mission Optimization (8) Operational organization & associated skills where from

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Hubert Fraysse
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

Keyur Patel
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

4. Ground Systems Engineering (GSE)

(Subtopics) (1) Ground Segment Architectures and Design (2) Control Centre Architectures (3) Flight Control Systems and EGSE (4) Payload Monitor and Control (5) Service Oriented Architectures (6) Software Development and Maintenance (7) Systems Engineering and System Design for Operability (8) Ground Systems Testing and Validation

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Francois Jocteur Monrozier
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

Hamid Bin Salim
Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA) — Malaysia

5. Data Management (DM)

(Subtopics) (1) Ground Data Systems Development, Validation and Maintenance (2) On-board/ground Interfaces (3) Archive Systems and Data Mining (4) Automation and health monitoring, flight and ground Data Distribution (5) Information Architectures and Information Models (6) Payload and Science Data Handling

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Zeina Mounzer
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland — Germany

Suzanne Dodd
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) —

6. Planning and Scheduling (PS)

(Subtopics) (1) Mission Planning and Scheduling Systems (2) Asset Scheduling (3) Merging Plans from Different/many Agencies (4) Merging Plans from MOCs and SOCs (5) Planning for Planetary Relay and Surface Communications (6) Resource Management (7) Real-time Re-planning Techniques (8) Science Observation Planning (9) Detailed Crew Planning versus “Job Jars”

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Martin Wickler
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany

Vladimir Nazarov
Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI) — Russian Federation

7. Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)

(Subtopics) (1) Flight Dynamics and Navigation (2) Attitude Determination and Control (3) Challenges in Trajectory Design and Analysis (4) Interplanetary Missions (5) Formation/Constellation Management (6) Global Navigation Systems and Applications (7) GNC and Astrodynamics Software (8) Space Debris and Collision Avoidance Algorithms (9) Techniques for Using Earth-Orbital Global Positioning System (GPS) at Lunar Distances (10) GPS Constellations for Other Planetary Bodies

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Shinichi Nakamura
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

Fabio D'Amico
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) — Italy

8. Communications Architectures and Networks (CAN)

(Subtopics) (1) Communications, Ground and Space Networking (2) Network Operations and Management (3) Integrating Communications Networks (4) Ground Network and Antenna Concepts (5) Communications Architectures for Complex Constellations (6) Operational Impact of Spectrum Allocations (7) Layered versus Integrated Architectures (8) Backup Communications Approaches (9) Interplanetary Networking

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Andrew Dowen
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

Klaus-Juergen Schulz
European Space Agency (ESA) —

Brian Giovannoni
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — United States

9. Human Spaceflights and Operations (HSO)

(Subtopics) (1) Mission Architectures for Human Spaceflight (2) Operations with Space Tourists On-board (3) Flight Crew Operations Techniques and Training (4) Human Operations with Long Lightspeed Delays (5) Long Duration Human Missions – New Concepts (6) Crew-driven Requirements (videoconference, comm bandwidth, etc.) (7) Medical Operations in Human Missions (not an emphasis on medical techniques) (8) Reliability (RMA) Standards and Methods, Unique for Human Spaceflight (9) Human/Robotic Integration and Cooperation (10) Habitat Operations, Orbital and Planetary Surface (11) Space Environment Factors for Human Lunar/Mars Mission Design (12) Utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS)

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Thomas Mueller
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany

Cesare Capararo
ALTEC S.p.A. — Italy

Brian Giovannoni
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory —

10. Commercial Space Operations (CSO)

(Subtopics) (1) Air and Space Traffic Management (2) Commercial Manned Spaceflight (3) Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (4) Commercial Spaceports (5) Lean and Lights-out Commercial Control Centres (6) Managing a Constellation of Satellites (7) Operations with Space Tourists on-board (8) Training Spaceflights Participants (9) Commercial Utilization of ISS

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Gian Paolo Calzolari
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

Christophe Belzile
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — Canada

11. Artificial Intelligence for Space Operations (AI)

(Subtopics) (1) Approaches to introduce AI in Operations (2) AI Operational Processes (3) Methods and algorithms (Machine Learning, Neural networks, reinforcement techniques, etc.) (4) AI Integration & Interfaces in Operational Ground Segments (5) AI in Planning and Scheduling (on-board and on ground) (6) AI in Payloads Mission Data Processing (7) AI On-board Space Systems Autonomyes

TPC Chair: Saeed Al Mansoori
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) — United Arab Emirates

Topic Chair

Sean Burns
Eumetsat — Germany

Michael Schmidhuber
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany