Agenda
SSSIF will be held as in previous editions in two different halls.
The Main Conference Hall for panels, outstanding contributions and keynote speakers and the Mena Hall for oral technological presentations.
The Main Conference Hall
The Main Conference Hall will host keynote speakers, panels and the most relevant contributions of the forum. It is the central stage for debates and presentations that bring together international experts and industry leaders.
The Mena Hall
The Mena Hall will feature oral presentations and thematic sessions, offering participants the opportunity to share research, projects, and innovative ideas in a more focused and interactive setting.
Main Hall General Timetable
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 8
Jordi Puig-Suari - CALPOLY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 9
Gen. Isaac Crespo - SPANISH SPACE COMMAND
PANEL 6 - Challenges of European Resilience from Space and the National Constellations
Chairperson: Juan T. Hernani - SATLANTIS
Representatives from ESCA+Spain, Poland, Switzerland and Portugal will establish the constructions challenges
and the scenario post-constellation that will arise in East & South Europe
Nicolás Martín - AEE
Miguel A. Carrera - AVS
Augusto Caramagno - INDRA
Miguel A. Molina - GMV
Robert Nowicki - CREOTECH
COFFEE BREAK 3 sponsored by BUFETE MAS Y CALVET
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 10
Luis Martín - ARRIBES
PANEL 7 - R&D for Dual Technologies
Chairpersons: Antonio Ayuso - SENER
Participants:
Antonio Azuaga - AEE
Marco Detrati - CE
Miguel Salas - UPM
TBD - EXOTRAIL
Cristina Vives - INDRA
Borja Portillo - OCCAM SPACE
Emanuele di Sotto - GMV
PANEL 8 - Strategic autonomy in Space: how European and national initiatives complement
Chairperson: Javier Izquierdo - HISPASAT
Participants:
Héctor Guerrero - MICIU
José M. Hermoso - AEE
Alfredo Quiles - ESA
Tcol. Juan P. Mesa - CESTIC
Miguel Muñoz - STARTICAL
LUNCH 2
PANEL 9 - Space for the benefit of society - Focus on Earth Observation
Chairperson: Carlos Fernández - TELESPAZIO
Participants:
Alex Oscoz - IAC
Miguel A. Carrera - AVS
Carles Franquesa - AISTECH
Isabel Vera - AEE
Amaya Atienza - GMV
PANEL 10 - International Collaboration in the Space Industry I
Chairperson: Senin Carbia - ICEX SPAIN TRADE & INVESTMENT
Participants:
Roger Hunter - NASA
Jon Goff - GRAVITICS
Andrew Faiola - ASTROSCALE
Lee Rosen - THINKORBITAL
PANEL 11 - International Collaboration in the Space Industry II
Chairperson: Meghan Allen - SPACE FOUNDATION
Participants:
Troy Brashear - NORTHROP GRUMMAN
Bill Williams - LOCKHEED MARTIN
Keli Jones - AIRBUS US
PANEL 12 - International Collaboration in the Space Industry III
Chairperson: Meghan Allen - SPACE FOUNDATION
Participants:
Scott Rodríguez - VOYAGER TECHNOLOGIES
Tom Shelley - VAST
Michael LÓPEZ-ALEGRÍA - AXIOM
COFFEE BREAK 4
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS
Esther Sardón - GMV - LEO-PNT Program
Juan T. Hernani - SATLANTIS
Miguel A. Maure - STARTICAL
Pablo Morillo - INDRA
Carlos Fernández - TELESPAZIO
Pablo Lario - OCCAM SPACE
Miguel A. Carrera - AVS
FORUM DINNER
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
OPENING OF THE CLOSING DAY
Dña. Teresa Riesgo Alcaide - Sec. General de Innovación. Gobierno de España.
Dña. Maria Nieves Valenzuela Romero - Directora General de Fomento de la Innovación. Junta de Andalucía.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 12
Alexandre Najjar - NOVASPACE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 13
Michela Muñoz - NASA HQ
Title: Mars Sample Return Program
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 14
Michael López-Alegría - AXIOM SPACE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 15
Pedro Duque - HISPASAT
PANEL 13 - Next Step of Human Exploration
Chairperson: Meghan Allen - SPACE FOUNDATION
Participants:
Michael López-Alegría - AXIOM SPACE
Pedro Duque - HISPASAT
COFFEE BREAK 5
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 16
Doug Liddle - UK SPACE TRADE ASSOCIATION
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 17
Roger Hunter - NASA AMES
LUNCH 3
PANEL 14 - Active Antennas, Key Technology for future applications
Chairperson: Miguel Salas - UPM
Participants:
Mª Ángeles González - SENER
Itziar Maestrojuan - ANTERAL
Manuel Sansegundo - HISPASAT
Franciso de Asís Perán - AIRBUS
Raúl Regada - THALES ALENIA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 18
Patrick Wood - UK SPACE TRADE ASSOCIATION
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 19
Inmaculada Serrano
CLOSING AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
The Mena Hall Timetable
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
COFFEE BREAK 1 sponsored by BUFETE MAS Y CALVET & ARKADIA SPACE
ORAL SESSION 1 - Market and future vision of small satellite platforms
Chairman: Alexande Najjar - NOVASPACE
1. P01 - EU Space Act 2025: Harmonizing New Space for a Competitive and Sustainable European Space Future. EFRÉN DÍAZ, BUFETE MAS Y CALVET
2. P02 - Sovereign and Interoperable Space Logistics: Standardization, Security, and Resilience for Future Access. DANIELA JOVIC, IMPULSO.SPACE
3. P43 - From Documents to Models: Overcoming Challenges in MBSE Adoption for Space Missions. PALOMA MAESTRO, STARION GROUP
4. P45 - Are CubeSats Stagnating? Status, Trends and Future of Nanosatellites. ERIK KULU, NANOSATS DATABASE
ORAL SESSION 2 - Research Institutions and scientific developments with small satellites
Chairman: Ausías Garrigós - UHM
5. P03 - Progress on UC3M Center for Space Techonology and nano/Micro-Satellites (CSAT). ANDRÉS MARCOS, UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
6. P18 - DRAGO-3, an uncooled high-resolution SWIR camera. ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ, INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS (IAC)
7. P54 - Phase 3: status review on UC3Ms ST3LLARsat1 BOIRA Cubesat. ANDRÉS MARCOS, UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID
8. P55 - On the digital processing implementation for active smart antenna payloads onboard SmallSats. MIGUEL SALAS-NATERA, UPM
ORAL SESSION 3 - Key technologies for the future of the small satellite missions (part 1)
Chairman: Fernando Aguado - UVIGO
9. P05 - Satellites Services & AI for Emergency Management - Safeplace Live Demo, S+EM Valencia. SARA DE LA FUENTE, STARION GROUP
10. P59 - An Open-source framework for modelling and evaluating LEO Satellite QKD passes. JAVIER LÓPEZ CEREZO, UMA
11. P13 - Micro Pin Puller (uD3PP) qualification, lessons learned and integration suggestions. GUILLEM QUINTANA, DCUBED
12. P14 - Demonstration of Silicon Photomultipliers for Visible-Light detection in CubeSat Missions. LUCAS FINAZZI, INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FISICAS, UNSAM/CONICET
LUNCH 1
ORAL SESSION 4 - Deep space missions and scientific missions based on small satellite & nanosatellite platforms
Chairman: Alex Oscoz - IAC
13. P04 - Feasibility Analysis and Desgin of a Lunar CubeSat Mission with Impactor and Orbiter. ALICIA GARCÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ
14. P16 - The ESA Comet Interceptor Mission and its instruments. JORGE FDEZ DE TORO, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, ESA
15. P26 - From F to Gamma: AVS Leads ARRAKIHS with LUR-100, the Ultimate Modular Platform for ESA Science. CRISTINA ORTEGA, AVS SPAIN
16. P44 - Indigenous Design and manufacture of 16U CubeSat with Micro Propulsion System and Broadband IR. R. PRITHIVIRAJAN, SATHAYABAMA INST. OF SCIENCE AND TEHCNOLOGY
ORAL SESSION 5 - Application & solutions for LEO constellations of small satellites and nanosatellites
Chairman: Andrés Villa - UARX
17. P36 - A GNSS Reflectometry payload for the Spanish Contribution to the Atlantic Constellation. GUILLEM GRACIA, COMMSSENS LAB, UPC
18. P48 - COMPASS: New features for Multi-Scenario Constellation analysis. KSENIA OSIPOVA, UPC
19. P53 - The electrical power subsystem for a small satellite constellation platform. DANIEL GARCÍA, DHV TECHNOLOGY
20. TBD
COFFEE BREAK 2 sponsored by ANSYS
ORAL SESSION 6 - Missions, techonology analysis and applications using small satellites
Chairperson: Álvaro Giménez - AEE
21. P20 - Hybrid Additive Manufacturing for Integrated Electronics in Small Satellite Platform. ÁNGEL DOBLADO/IÑIGO LAZKANOTEGI, TECNALIA
22. P37 - Comparative Analysis of Classical, Hybrid and AI-Based ADCS Architectures for High-Precision Pointing. FERNANDO AGUADO, ATLANTTIC, UNIVERSITY OF VIGO
23. P49 - Mission-based System Engineering in the NewSpace. BORIS SEGRET, CENSUS. PARIS OBSERVATORY
24. P52 - 360: A High-fidelity, Optimization-Driven Framework for integrated space mission and mobility Analysis. JORGE ARIZA, IENAI SPACE
RECEPTION COCKTAIL
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
ORAL SESSION 7A - Key technologies for the future of the small satellite missions (part II)
Chairman: Michela Muñoz - NASA
25. P08 - Enabling the Next Generation of European Fully Reusable Launch Vehicles. ÁLVARO SAEZ, SENER AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
26. P10 - Mechanical design, assembly and test of a TIR objective for Earth observation from a CubeSat in LEO. CLÉMENT CHARUEL, LIDAX
COFFEE BREAK 3 sponsored by BUFETE MAS Y CALVET
ORAL SESSION 7B - Key technologies for the future of the small satellite missions (part II)
Chairman: Michela Muñoz - NASA
27. P15 - Motor control for Nanosatellite Stabilization. AINARA JARAMILLO, IEEC
28. P17 - Nanosatellite Stabilization Study Using Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs) and Testbench. RICARDO J. PAREDES, UB
ORAL SESSION 8 - Telecommunication and ground segment solutions for small satellite platforms
Chairman: Miguel Salas - UPM
29. P11 - Real World Quantum Safe Secure Communications. What we have learned from our global space and terrestrial network. JUAN J. GARRIDO, STARION GROUP
30. P24 - Leveraging Photonic Technologies to Enhance Small Satellite Applications. MIGUEL A. PIQUERAS, TECNOBIT, GRUPO OESIA
31. P25 - The emerging Malaga Telecommunications Space Ecosystem: ongoing initiatives and outlook. SERGIO FORTES, UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA
32. P30 - Compact High-gain Reflectarray Antennas for CubeSats and nanosatellites. EDUARDO CARRASCO, UPM
33. P50 - Low-Profile Phased Array Antenna for Enhanced Telemetry in Next-Generation Launchers. MARÍA ÁNGELES GONZÁLEZ, SENER AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
34. P56 - Progress on the Active Smart Antenna Payload onboard UPMSat-4 Reflectarray and Digital Signal Processing. MIGUEL SALAS-NATERA, UPM
ORAL SESSION 9A - In-Orbit demonstration and validation using small satellite platforms and enabling technologies
Chairman: Bryan Haderlie - Apogee Engineering
35. P21 - The ANSER mission - Challenges and achievements during more than 2 years in orbit. IVAN CASTRO-FDEZ, INTA
36. P22 - Validation of aerodynamic models using orbit propagators and GNSS data of the ANSER cluster. MARCOS FUENTES-CARRILLO, INTA
37. P23 - Analysis of the suitability of the Auriga Star Tracker for Very Low Earth Orbit Missions. MATTHIEU BEAUMEL, SODERN
38. P27 - Autonomous Docking in LEO: AVS advances in End-to-End In-Orbit servicing with UND ROADS. CRISTINA ORTEGA, AVS
LUNCH 2
ORAL SESSION 9B - In-Orbit demonstration and validation using small satellite platforms and enabling technologies
Chairman: Bryan Haderlie - Apogee Engineering
39. P32 - SATMAR: in-orbit results of the LEOP and commissioning phase and initial AIS/VDES payload operations. ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ, ALÉN SPACE
40. P47 - First results from the Foresail-1 prime CubeSat science missions. JAAN PRAKS, AALTO UNIVERSITY
COFFEE BREAK 4
FORUM DINNER
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
ORAL SESSION 10 - Deorbiting and Space Debris Mitigation
Chairman: Antón Vázquez - ALEN SPACE
41. P06 - GRACE (Gauss Reentry Assist and Cleanup Equiment): a standardized, scalable and flight-ready. LUCA ARMANI, GAUSS SRL.
42. P07 - From Proof to Concept to Mission Capable: Performance, Guidance and Onboard Software for Lorentz-Force Propulsion. LUCA ARMANI, GAUSS SRL, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROMA
43. P12 - The Zero Debris Approach and its implications for LEO CubeSat Mission Design. DIEGO NAVARRO-TAPIA, UC3M
44. P19 - OKAPI: Soteria-Debris Mitigation Analysis Tool. FREDERIK LÄUFERTS, OKAPI: ORBITS GmbH
45. P35 - From acceptable risk to added risk: A regulatory rationale for incentivizing sustainable space. VICTOR BARRIO, ANDERSEN IBERIA TAX & LEGAL
COFFEE BREAK 5
ORAL SESSION 11 - Engineering approaches for the Small Satellites
Chairman: Carlos Pérez del Pulgar - UMA
46. P57 - Autonomous inspection, diagnose and repair of space structures using robots. DAVID RODRÍGUEZ, UMA
47. P09 - EMC of CubeSats using Kron method. KOUASSI KOUASSI, CENSUS, OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
48. P58 - Power system design based on commercial of the shelf components for space applications. AUSIAS GARRIGÓS. UNIVERSITY OF ELCHE
49. P60 - Radian: parametric analysis and other developments for thermal analysis software. DAVID CRIADO, RADIAN SYSTEMS
LUNCH 3
NASA HUNCH. Scott Rodriguez. Voyager Technologies
Chairman: Jordi Puig-Suari - CALPOLY
TECHNICAL WORKSHOP
Chairman: Jordi Puig-Suari - CALPOLY