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6A

session 6A

Title: Generic Technologies for Small Satellites (1)
type: oral
Description: This session, together with session B4.6B, covers emerging and promising generic technologies for small satellites, including platform and payload technologies. Real-life examples are particularly encouraged, both recently launched and shortly to be launched (next 3 years).
Date: 2026-10-08
Time: 10:15
Room: Hall 2

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Philip Davies, Byspace Ltd, United Kingdom;
Co-Chair: Mr. Joost Elstak, ICEYE, Netherlands (Kingdom of the);
Rapporteur: Dr. Jian Guo, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands (Kingdom of the);
Rapporteur: Mr. Thomas Terzibaschian, Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH, Germany;
Rapporteur: Prof. Youngho Eun, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	A Plug-and-Play Attitude Determination and Control System and Its On-Orbit Application in Nanosatellites	12	confirmed	Prof. Fei Xing	Tsinghua University, Beijing	China
2	10:27	One Wheel Is Enough: Control Strategies for the 3+1 Actuator Architecture Across Small Satellite Mission Profiles	12	confirmed	Dr. Patrick McKeen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
3	10:39	ICARVS: Phase 0/A of a 3U CubeSat Demonstrator for RL-based Attitude Controllers	12	confirmed	Dr. Maria Daniela Graziano	University of Naples "Federico II"	Italy
4	10:51	On-board FDIR using ML and federated filters for attitude determination on small satellites	12	confirmed	Mr. Jasper Jeuken	Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR)	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
5	11:03	Inertial Reference Modelling and On-Orbit Attitude Determination for a 2U CubeSat	12	confirmed	Mr. Bas Stijnen	University College Dublin (UCD)	Ireland
6	11:15	Conflict-Aware Cooperative Control for Small Satellite Cluster Pose Maneuvers	12	confirmed	Dr. Yingkai Cai	Tsinghua University	China
7	11:27	Software-Defined Earth Sensor for Precision Attitude Determination in CubeSats: AI-Driven Landmark Recognition and FPGA-Accelerated Visual Navigation	12	confirmed	Mr. Kaan Göktürk	Istanbul Technical University	Türkiye
8	11:39	VEKTOR-FDA: Development and Qualification of a Multi Degree of Freedom Liquid Metal Actuator for Space Application in Small Satellites	12	confirmed	Mr. Huu Quan Vu	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
9	11:51	Software-Defined Radio Architecture for Multi-Standard CubeSat Communications: Lessons Learned from ONGLAISAT and SCIONX	12	confirmed	Mr. YiYu Chang	National Central University, Department of Space Science and Engineering	Taiwan, China
10	12:03	Design of a Low Cost Communication Subsystem for 3U CubeSats	12	confirmed	Mr. Yunus Emre Özdemir	Middle East Technical University	Türkiye
11	12:15	A Fully Non-Invasive, Standalone Proof-of-Life Signalling Beacon Subsystem for CubeSats	12	confirmed	Mr. Vamshi Sainath Gavani	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India
12	12:27	Reliability Assessment of CubeSat Antenna Deployment Architectures: review and considerations to WASKIRI-SAT	12	confirmed	Ms. Mariel Valeriano	Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo	Bolivia