See below for the latest programme over all three days of the conference:
20th Reinventing Space Conference
‘The Evolving Architecture for NewSpace’
This year’s conference programme runs across three consecutive days, with the option to attend any or all days. Each day will consist of a combination of talks from selected presenters as well as dedicated panel sessions and invited Keynote talks aligned with each day’s theme:
Days 1 & 2 Wednesday to Thursday 11 – 12 October: Space exploration, infrastructure development, novel technologies, satellite servicing and recycling, in-situ resource utilisation, power, propulsion, and communications.
Day 3 Friday 13 October: Day 3 marks ‘BIS at 90’, celebrating a proud heritage and looking to the future development and exploration of cis-lunar space, critical challenges and opportunities for human exploration of space ‘Beyond the Moon’
The conference will conclude on the Friday with the Gala Dinner which will include the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards – this event is not to be missed!
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NB: Provisional programme – This programme is correct on the date of publication (25th August 2022). All content is subject to minor changes, and no refunds will be offered for one day tickets purchased on the basis of the information provided below.
Day 1 – Wednesday 11th October
The Evolving Architecture for NewSpace – Space Technology, Launch and Law, Platforms and Science
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
09:00 |
Welcome Address |
British Interplanetary Society |
09:20 |
Morning Session – Space Technology # 1 |
|
09:20 |
An Evaluation of Radiation Sensitivity of Minimally-Shielded New Space Missions |
Alexandros Yiannakou |
09:40 |
Communications Means for New Space Architecture |
Betty Bonnardel |
10:00 |
Satellite Constellation Missions Connectivity via OISL |
Hamed Gamal |
10:20 |
COTS: The Inevitable March to the Van Allen Belts |
Nikki Antoniou |
10:40 |
Break |
|
11:00 |
Morning Session – Launch and Law |
|
11:00 |
Establishing Africa’s First Space Launch Capability |
Jean Pitot |
10:20 |
Factors affecting the Payload Capacity of Orbital Launch Vehicles |
Brodie Stanhope |
11:40 |
Light pollution of the night sky: a legal perspective for a balanced way forward |
Fabio Tronchetti |
12:00 |
Pathways to accurate and effective SSA and SDA |
Daniel Oltrogge |
12:20 |
The Artemis Accords |
Steve Mirmina |
12:40 |
Lunch
+ Poster Session: Propulsion At Scale Via Impulsive Retrograde Collisions Autonomous Orbit Maintenance and Control Proxy Star Wars: the growing threat of grey-zone activities in the space domain Orbital Locker The evolving architecture of new space |
Philip Baldock Abdul Lawal Daniel Francis Cameron Margetts Francis Walker |
13:40 |
Afternoon Session – Platforms and Science # 1 |
|
13:40 |
The NanoSpace Lab’s R&D Pipelines: Open Engineering for Open Space |
Matjaz Vidmar |
14:00 |
Shifting the paradigm with the Next Generation Microsatellite Platform |
Vicky Anderson |
14:20 |
The Design of CubeSats for Outer Solar System Scientific Missions |
Shayne Beegadhur |
14:40 |
Invited Speaker |
[TBC] |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:00 |
Panel Session #1
‘How the Proliferation of LEO Earth Observation Constellations Reinvented GEOINT Space’ Panel Part One – The Constellations |
Chair – David Germroth |
16:20 |
Invited Speaker |
[TBC] |
17:00 |
Close |
Day 2 – Thursday 12th October
The Evolving Architecture for NewSpace – Novel Mission Applications, Space Technology, Materials and Science
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
09:00 |
Invited Speaker |
[TBC] |
09:40 |
Morning Session – Novel Mission Applications |
|
09:40 |
Illuminating the Future: Space-Based Solar Power as a cornerstone in the new space economy |
Frank Schoofs |
10:00 |
COSMIC (UK ADR) |
Jesse Stuck |
10:20 |
D-Orbit |
Simon Reid |
10:40 |
Break |
|
11:00 |
Space Technology #2 |
Chair – Stuart Eves |
11:00 |
The Application Of Very Low Earth Orbits For Telecommunications Constellations |
Ian Muirhead |
10:20 |
How Atmosphere Breathing Electric Propulsion can make sustained operation in Very Low Earth Orbits a possibility |
Benjamin Kent |
11:40 |
Development of a kick stage and trajectory optimisation for large interplanetary scientific missions |
James McKevitt |
12:00 |
Invited Speaker |
[TBC] |
12:40 |
Lunch
+ Poster Session: Setting the earth-space boundary: a case of ‘urgency before regret’ Why Space? The Opportunity for Materials Science and Innovation Minimizing the Material Bias for Thin DebriSat Fragments Considerations for High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) in New Space Materials for reusable rockets – combined thermal and salt water exposure testing Novel exotic Al-Fe-Cr-Ti alloys with enhanced specific properties achieved via extreme heat treatments |
Ali Raiss-Tousi Philip Carvil Norman Fitz-Coy Anicho Ogbonnaya Katy Voisey Katy Voisey |
13:40 |
Afternoon Session – Materials and Science #2 |
Chair – Wg Crd David Black |
13:40 |
Advanced Control Systems for an Encapsulated and Pressurised Habitat for Plants in Space |
José María Ortega-Hernández |
14:00 |
MicroAge Mission: The responses of human tissue-engineered muscle constructs to microgravity with and without muscle contractions. |
Anne McArdle |
14:20 |
China/Russia’s plan for an International Lunar Research Station |
Fabio Tronchetti |
14:40 |
Composite Pressure Vessel: Effect of Graphene and Other 2d Materials in 3d Multiaxial Composites for Low Earth Orbit Habitat |
Vivek Koncherry |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:20 |
Panel Session #2
‘How the Proliferation of LEO Earth Observation Constellations Reinvented GEOINT Space’ Panel Part Two – The Analytical Benefactors |
Chair – Jessica King |
16:20 |
Invited Speaker |
[TBC] |
17:00 |
Close |
Day 3 – Friday 13th October
“The BIS 90th Anniversary and Beyond the Moon Symposium”
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
09:30 |
Welcome Address |
British Interplanetary Society |
09:40 |
The History of the BIS – The First 90 Years |
Bob Parkinson |
10:10 |
The Future of the BIS – The Next 90 Years? |
Simon Feast |
10:20 |
Invited Speaker |
TBC |
10:40 |
Break |
|
2023 Beyond the Moon Symposium |
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11:00 |
Morning Session – Civilisation in Space; Society, Knowledge and Culture |
|
11:00 |
Introduction |
|
12:20 |
The British Interplanetary Society And Astra Carta |
Grif Ingram |
11:40 |
The I-phone Moment For Space Entrepreneurship |
Balázs Slezák |
12:00 |
Ethics In Extraterrestrial Nanotechnology |
Nina Kojima |
12:20 |
The Human Spaceship – Off Balance |
Helen Schell |
12:40 |
Lunch
+ Poster Session: Thermo-economic Analysis of Martian Habitats, with ARHS Atalanta Energy Relay Architecture (AERA) |
Evandros Theodosiou Matthew Harris |
13:40 |
Afternoon Session – Settlement in Space; Technological and Architectural Challenges |
|
13:40 |
The Settlement Of Space: Economic And Logistical Drivers And Constraints |
Richard J. Soilleux |
14:00 |
The Ultimate Architecture – The Space Elevator |
Peter Robinson |
14:20 |
Interplanetary Fusion Powered Spaceships |
Michel Lamontagne |
14:40 |
Invited Speaker |
TBC |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:20 |
Project Daedalus – 50th Anniversary |
Alan Bond |
15:40 |
Project Icarus – Update and Project Conclusions |
Rob Swinney |
16:00 |
Panel Session #3
‘The Future of Humanity in Space’ |
|
16:45 |
Voice of NextGen: Briefing on the outcome of Morning NextGen Workshop |
|
16:55 |
RISpace 2023 Closing Remarks |
|
17:00 |
Close |
|
19:00 |
Pre-Dinner Reception |
|
19:45 |
Reinventing Space Conference & 90th Anniversary Dinner |
|
21:30 |
Sir Arthur Clarke Awards |
|
22:30 |
Carriages |