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session 2

Title: Innovative Space Operations Concepts and Advanced Systems
type: oral
Description: This session addresses innovative space operations and addresses advanced concepts, systems, approaches, processes and tools for operating existing and new types of missions, improving mission output in quality and quantity, and reducing cost.
Date: 2026-10-08
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 1

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Mario Cardano, Thales Alenia Space France, Italy;
Co-Chair: Dr. Andreas Ohndorf, European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Netherlands (Kingdom of the);
Rapporteur: Dr. Jackelynne Silva-Martinez, NASA, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Yuichiro Nogawa, Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS), Japan;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Responsive, Commercially Available, and Affordable In-Space Servicing: Unlocking a New Wave of Dynamic Space Operations	12	confirmed	Mr. Andrew Sabovik	- Katalyst Space Technologies	United States
2	15:12	A Mission-Phase-Tailored Fault Protection Concept for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt Explorer	12	confirmed	Mr. Saeed Khthil	UAE Space Agency	United Arab Emirates
3	15:24	Emirates Mars Mission Perpetual Operations: An Autonomy Framework for Sustained Science	12	confirmed	Mrs. Emily Pilinski	Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at University of Colorado	United States
4	15:36	Connectivity-Gap-Resilient Telemetry System for In-Orbit Experiment Scheduling	12	confirmed	Dr. Adrian Perez-Portero	i2CAT	Spain
5	15:48	ADVANCED IMMERSIVE MISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS	12	confirmed	Mr. Haroon Oqab	Columbiad Launch Services Inc.	Canada
6	16:00	CHEOPS Automated collision avoidance operations	12	confirmed	Mrs. Naiara Fernández de Bobadilla	Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA)	Spain
7	16:12	Reinforcement Learning Control for Offset-Port Autonomous Docking with Coupled Rotational-Translational Dynamics in Low Earth Orbit	12	confirmed	Mr. Onur Aytekin	Air Force Institute of Technology	United States
8	16:24	Demonstration of Event-Driven Autonomous Operations on the NASA MMS Mission	12	confirmed	Dr. Miles Bengtson		United States
9	16:36	The Italian In-Orbit Servicing (IOS) Demo Mission	12	confirmed	Dr. Maria Antonietta Perino	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
10	16:48	Use-Cases of Non-Earth Imagery: The Sustainable Recovery of RSOs	12	confirmed	Ms. Laurene Colin	HEO Robotics	United Kingdom