Location: The Historic Academy of Medicine

Address: 875 W Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30309

Directions and Parking

Attire: Business Casual 

TimeAgenda
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

TimeAgenda
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

TimeAgenda
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

TimeAgenda
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 – 4:30Session Wrap-Up

 

Networking and Social

TimeAgenda
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.Georgia Tech Space Week Networking Session

 

People mingling, eating, and drinking.

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!