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session 4

Title: Educational Pico and Nano Satellites
type: oral
Description: Joint session with SUAC. The session covers all aspects related to educational small satellites.
Date: 2025-10-01
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C2.4

IPC members

Co-Chair: Prof. Xiaozhou Yu, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China;
Co-Chair: Prof. Franco Bernelli-Zazzera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
Co-Chair: Prof. Anna Guerman, Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies (C-MAST), Portugal;
Co-Chair: Prof. Igor V. Belokonov, Samara National Research University (Samara University), Russian Federation;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	KEYNOTE: Hands-on space education and international collaboration: in memory of Prof Pierre Rochus	20		Prof. Sabrina Corpino	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
2	10:35	An Educational 3U CubeSat mission at Politecnico di Torino: the ELECTRA Mission for TEC Research and Micro thruster In-Orbit Testing	13	confirmed	Mr. Alessio Taretto	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
3	10:48	development and design of a cansat for simulating space probe entry into a planetary atmosphere	13		Mr. BABALOLA EMMANUEL	Centre for Space Research and Applications, FUTA, Nigeria	Nigeria
4	11:01	Validation of Alba CubeSat’s Thermal Model: from simulations to experimental testing	13		Ms. Monica Mozzato	University of Padua	Italy
5	11:14	UWE-5: Design And Development Of An Educational Communications Satellite Mission	13		Mr. Moritz Heimbach	Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg	Germany
6	11:27	Plug-and-Play Enabled Modular Nanosatellite Platform Architecture: Design, Implementation, and On-Orbit Performance Validation	13	confirmed	Prof. Fei Xing	Tsinghua University	China
7	11:40	The adoption of Z-Thomson Spin for power-efficient attitude control in the AcubeSAT mission	13		Ms. Aikaterini Papadopoulou	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
8	11:53	Design, Assembly and Testing of the Engineering Model of 3U BIRDS-RPM CubeSat Integration to Structural and Vibration Analysis	13		Mr. Noé GROSJEAN	LaSEINE, Kyushu Institute of Technology	Japan
9	12:06	Robust H-infinity controller design for 3-axis attitude control of CanSat under uncertainties	13		Ms. Antika Antika	IIIT Delhi	India
10	12:19	Design and Development of a Custom-Built ADCS for METUCube Satellite	13	confirmed	Ms. Gülce Tuzcu	Middle East Technical University	Türkiye
11	12:32	Development of a miniaturized antenna deployment mechanism for PocketQube applications	13		Mr. Alessandro Vignato	University of Padua	Italy
1*	10:15	On-Board Computer (OBC) Hardware Prototype for a 1U CubeSat	13	confirmed	Mr. Jefrey René Hipp Méndez	Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, USAC/CUNOC	Guatemala
2*	10:35	CanSat mission: Desing, implementation, and real-time data communication for controlled descent	13		Mr. Peter Perez	Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima, Perù)	Peru
3*	10:48	Communications Subsystem of the AcubeSAT Μission	13		Mr. Ilias Kamoisis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece