Location: The Historic Academy of Medicine
Address: 875 W Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30309
Attire: Business Casual
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration and breakfast |
| 9 – 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks Julia Kubanek, Vice President of Interdisciplinary Research, Georgia Tech Jud Ready, Executive Director, Space Research Institute, Georgia Tech |
Space Policy
Session Organizer: Mariel Borowitz, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 9:30 – 10 a.m. | Invited Keynote: An Astronaut’s View on Space Policy Sandy Magnus, Principal, AstroPlanetview, LLC |
| 10 – 10:15 a.m. | From Uncertainty to Strategy: A Game Theoretic Approach to Space Program Planning Bhargavi Thakar, Georgia Tech |
| 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Post Mission Disposal Policy: The What, Why, and How Neel Puri, Georgia Tech |
| 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 – 11 a.m. | Post-Mission Disposal Policy, Verification and Enforcement Sonal Mehta, Georgia Tech |
| 11 – 11:15 a.m. | Perception-Driven Escalation in Space Security: Frameworks and Policy Dayana Alagirova, Georgia Tech |
| 11:15 – 11:30 a.m. | The Geometry of Keep-Out Zones in Geosynchronous Orbit Kate Futrowsky, Georgia Tech |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
Space Domain Awareness
Session Organizer: Douglas Hope, Georgia Tech
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 12:30 – 12:40 p.m. | Session Introduction |
| 12:40 – 12:55 p.m. | NEOTracker — Distributed Citizen-Science Platform for SDA Alexander W. Miranda, Georgia Tech |
| 12:55 – 1:10 p.m. | Physics-Informed Visual SLAM for Characterizing Uncooperative RSOs Juan-Diego Florez-Castillo, Georgia Tech |
| 1:10 – 1:25 p.m. | A Comparative Analysis of Slitless Spectroscopy and Discrete-Filter Photometry for GEO Satellite Characterization Noah Lewis, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 1:25 – 1:40 p.m. | The Atmosphere as a Spectrometer: On-Sky Speckle Spectral Recovery William O’Brien, Georgia State University |
| 1:40 – 1:55 p.m. | Hyperspectral Speckle Imaging for SDA: From Faint Debris Detection to Spectral Characterization Douglas A. Hope, Georgia Tech Research Institute |
| 1:55 – 2 p.m. | Session Wrap-Up |
| 2 – 2:15 p.m. | Break |
Satellite Cloud Computing
Session Organizer: Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 2:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Session Introduction |
| 2:30 – 3 p.m. | Space Datacenters: Five Reasons to Compute in Orbit Nathaniel Bleier, University of Michigan |
| 3 – 3:15 p.m. | Orchestration for the Orbital Compute Cloud Ketan Bhardwaj, Georgia Tech |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | A Distributed Control Plane for Large-Scale Megaconstellations Vaibhav Bhosale, Georgia Tech |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Sharing the Sky: Virtualized Constellations for a Resilient Computing Infrastructure Ahmed Saeed, Georgia Tech |
| 3:45 – 4 p.m. | Resilient Satellites via Cybersecure Control Saman Zonouz and Glen Chou, Georgia Tech |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Session Wrap-Up |
Networking and Social
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Georgia Tech Space Week Networking Session |
Launch and Libations: Georgia Tech Space Week Edition
5:30 – 8 p.m. | Historic Academy of Medicine
An evening networking reception celebrating Georgia's growing space community. Connect with professionals from across industry, academia, government, and the startup ecosystem while building new relationships and strengthening existing collaborations. Featuring special guests from the Space Research Institute External Advisory Board!