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Luxembourg Space Café: The Small Satellites Revolution

December 9, 2021 @ 18 h 00 min - 21 h 00 min

€11,80

Space Café Luxembourg is the premier event series gathering the members of the space community in the Grand Duchy. The concept is simple: experts from the space sector present important events, activities or a current hot topic on a certain theme. Before and after the talk, the community comes together to network, discuss and make recommendations fordecision-making. On 9 December 2021, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) will host the first post-pandemic Space Café, dedicated to “The Small Satellites Revolution”.

The Small Satellites Revolution

CubeSats, one of SnT’s lines of research, have been the catalysts for the NewSpace economy. Their agile development approach has spilled over to launcher development, small satellites and ChipSats. At the event, guest speakers Edgar Milic of LuxSpace and Roger Hunter of NASA Ames will intervene on the topic, holding sessions about “The Excitement of Space to Build Up Value and Business Return” and “A Review of NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program”, respectively. Their presentation will be preceded by a session by Rui Zong, a graduate student of the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM). Rui will present GoldCrest, the CubeSat mission study authored by the first cohort of ISM students during first two semesters in the CubeSatLab course.

Agenda

 

18:00 Welcome of guests and visit of the University’s space laboratories
19:00 CubeSat Mission GoldCrest: Global Soil Moisture Measurement
Zong Rui, Interdisciplinary Space Master student
19:15 The Excitement of Space to Build Up Value and Business Return 

Edgar Milic, Chief Executive – OHB LuxSpace

19:35 A Review of NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Roger HunterProgram Manager for NASA Small Spacecraft Technology
19:55 Networking drink

Speakers

Rui Zong 

University of Luxembourg

Rui is part of the first cohort of the Interdisciplinary Space Master at the University of Luxembourg, where she is pursuing a degree in space technology and business. She came from China and completed her bachelor’s studies in mechanical design and another master’s degree at Tongji University. She interned at Luxembourg Space Agency, analyzed the current space resources companies globally, and investigated the Chinese space industry. Her thesis topic is about cloud removal from satellite imagery using generative adversarial networks.

 
Edgar Milic 

OHB LuxSpace

Edgar is a passionate executive with 20-year experience in the Space, technology and governmental sectors. He is the Chief Executive at OHB LuxSpace. In his role, he drives a team of talented professionals to accomplish the strategic ambition of integrating microsatellite production with the application capabilities developed by the company over more than a decade. Before joining OHB LuxSpace, Edgar has spent 12 years at SES Satellites, with leadership roles in business innovation, corporate development, business development and venture capital funding. A start-up mentor and former advisory board member of the Seraphim Space Fund, Edgar is lecturer at Luxembourg University in Space business and Entrepreneurship, and the proud father of three kids.

 
Roger Hunter Roger Hunter 

NASA

Roger currently serves as Program Manager for NASA Small Spacecraft Technology, with over 40 years’ experience in US Department of Defense, Commercial, and Government Space Missions. In this capacity for the past several years, he identifies and supports the development and demonstration of new technologies to expand the capabilities of small spacecraft for NASA science and exploration objectives. Previously, he served for many years as the Program Manager for the NASA Kepler Mission. While working in the commercial space industry, Roger was the Program Manager for the Boeing Corporation’s Global Positioning System Sustainment activities for the US Air Force. Colonel Hunter also had a successful career of 22 years in the US Air Force where he had assignments as a Program Manager for several national security space programs.

Registration

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This event is organised under the CovidCheck system.

At the entrance, guests will be asked to show either:

– Vaccination certificate
– Negative COVID-19 test certificate (Certified rapid and PCR tests only. On-site rapid antigen tests will no longer be sufficient for entry as of 1st November 2021).
– Recovery certificate

Venue

University of Luxembourg, Kirchberg Campus
6, Rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
Luxembourg, L-1359 Luxembourg

Organizer

SnT
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