session 3

Title: Technology Needs for Future Missions, Systems, and Instruments
type: oral
Description: The session includes invited and contributed talks about the technology challenges and plans required to enable breakthrough science objectives in: exoplanet detection and characterization; astronomy throughout the electromagnetic spectrum and using gravitational waves; space physics including fractional gravity regimes and heliophysics; and fundamental physics including relativity. Topical focus includes measurement techniques, data types, performance requirements, instrument designs, mission concepts and systems, and associated technology developments.
Date: 2026-10-07
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 30

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Eric Wille, ESA, Netherlands (Kingdom of the);
Co-Chair: Dr. Andrew Court, TNO, Netherlands (Kingdom of the);
Rapporteur: Mrs. Maria Cristina Falvella, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	The Status of Space-Based Optical Interferometry	15	confirmed	Dr. Rashied Amini	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
2	15:15	Optical Reef - The Absurdly Large Formation Flying Segmented Space Telescope	15	confirmed	Mr. Howard Hall	Viterbi School of Engineering, USC	United States
3	15:30	Genderless Flux-Pinned Interfaces Supporting In-Space Assembly of Next-Generation, Large Segmented Space Telescope Apertures	15	confirmed	Ms. Maddy Stratton	University of Southern California	United States
4	15:45	A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Pipeline for Sub-Millisecond Discovery of Faint and Uncatalogued X-ray Sources via Cross-Attention Transformers and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification	15	confirmed	Mr. Hesen Dadaszade	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (SABAH Groups)	Azerbaijan
5	16:00	Protecting the Lunar Far Side for Radio Astronomy: Governance Challenges in an Era of Expanding Lunar Activities	15		Ms. Shrawani Shagun	National Law University, Delhi	India
6	16:15	Photometric Mapping of Silicates, Hydrocarbons, and Water Ice in the Interstellar Medium	15	confirmed	Dr. Burcu Günay	Ege University	Türkiye
7	16:30	Radiation-Resilient Edge AI Architectures for Autonomous Data Prioritization in Deep Space Exploration	15	confirmed	Ms. Meryem Nur Sultan Kayış	Baykar Science High School	Türkiye
8	16:45	Characterizing Sony IMX CMOS Sensors for X-Ray Astronomy Using Poisson Detector Simulations and Machine Learning	15		Ms. Carissma McGee	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
9	17:00	Solar CME Image Quality as a Factor in Contemporary Research	15	confirmed	Dr. Andrei Sadovski	Space Research Institute (IKI), RAS	Russian Federation
10	17:15	TESS-Rank: Machine Learning Ranking of Exoplanet Transit Candidates from TESS Light Curves	15	confirmed	Ms. Landry Nicol Bardales Guadalupe	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Peru

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