08:30 – 09:30

Registration

Chairman: J. Muylaert

09:30 – 10:15

Welcome, QB50 Project overview and Status

J. Muylaert

10:15 – 10:45

The increasing importance of CubeSats for science, technology, microgravity and biology

P. Worden and W. Marshall

10:45 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK

Chairman: R. Reinhard

11:15 – 11:30

CubeSats from North and South America participating in QB50

S. Close, S. Palo, R. Twiggs

11:30 – 12:00

Coordination by Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) of Asian universities wishing to participate in QB50

J. Zhou, S. Wu, Y. Li and X. Yu

12:00 – 12:15

Funding opportunities for CubeSat Teams and Projects

A. Koru

12:15 – 12:45

Atmospheric models and their uncertainties and expected densities of the most prominent neutrals and ions in the lower thermosphere

A. Ridley

12:45 – 14:00

LUNCH

Chairman: F.-J. Lübken

Candidate sensors for the science units of the double CubeSats

14:00 – 14:15

Neutral mass spectrometer/ion mass spectrometer

D. Kataria

14:15 – 14:30

FIPEX sensor

S. Fasoulas, T. Schmiel and A. Weber

14:30 – 14:45

Multi-needle Langmuir plasma probe

J. Moen and T.A. Bekkeng

14:45 – 15:00

Spherical EUV and Plasma Spectrometer (SEPS)

R. Brunner and G. Schmidtke

15:00 – 15:15

Magnetometer

P. Brown

15:15 – 15:30

Energetic particles detector

D. Kataria

15:30 – 15:45

Ionospheric E- and F-layer tomography with the QB50 network of satellites

H. Vanhamäki

15:45 – 16:15

COFFEE BREAK

Chairman: A. Ridley

16:15 – 16:45

Multi-mission ground segment

A. Van Damme and K. Bath

 

Special CubeSats to be launched together with QB50

16:45 – 17:15

Phone SAT

W. Marshall

17:15 – 17:30

Formation flying of the Delta and Phi triple CubeSats

E. Gill and J. Guo

17:30 – 17:45

VKI Re-entry Sat, an atmospheric re-entry double CubeSat

G. Bailet, C.O. Asma, T. Magin and J. Muylaert

17:45 – 18:00

InflateSail, a solar sail with inflatable booms accomodated in a triple CubeSat

V. Lappas

18:00 – 18:15

GT-Sat, a double CubeSat for testing the link quality between the satellite and the GENSO ground stations

L. Mehnen

18:15 – 18:30

GAMA-Sat, three double CubeSats for testing inter-satellite links

S. Reis-Cunha

18:30 – 18:45

PICASSO, a PICosatellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations

J. De Keyser and D. Fussen

18:45 – 19:00

Near-real time communication concept for CubeSats using the Iridium satellite network

C. Gopalpur and F. Schäfer

19:00 – 19:15

Space debris removal system based on sprayed foam and microthrusters

F. Santoni and F. Piergentili

Chairman: J. Hines

09:00 – 09:30

Deployment of a 5 x 5 m2 solar sail in low-Earth orbit (Gossamer-1)

P. Spietz and M. Falkner

09:30 – 09:50

Orbital dynamics for the QB50 network in low-Earth orbits, deployment sequence, optimal launch date, nominal lifetime

A. Bonnema, C.O. Asma, Z. Varhegyi and T. Magin

09:50 – 10:10

The QB50 deployment system

M. van Bolhuis

10:10 – 10:30

ADCS avionics on QB50 double CubeSats

V. Lappas

10:30 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:20

Communication systems and challenges for the QB50 network

J. Rotteveel

11:20 – 11:40

An open-source framework for QB50 satellites range scheduling in the GENSO network of ground stations

L. Mehnen

11:40 – 12:00

Frequency allocation for CubeSats participating in QB50

G. Shirville and N. Melville

12:00 – 12:30

Tentative selection of the sensors for the science units of the double CubeSats in view of CubeSat mass, volume, power, attitude stability, field of view and QB50 budget constraints

A. Smith

12:30 – 12:55

The Armada network of 48 triple CubeSats

A. Ridley

12:55 – 13:00

Closing remarks

J. Muylaert

13:30 – 14:15

LUNCH