This Year’s Reinventing Space Conference will take place in London on 11-13 November at the Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ. The Gala Dinner and Sir Arthur Clarke Awards will take place on the evening of the second day, Tuesday 12 November.
Registration for Reinventing Space 2024 is now open:
CLICK HERE for Delegate and Gala Dinner tickets, as well as opportunities for Exhibitors and Sponsors.
NB: Early Bird discounts ENDED on 15th September 2024
Reinventing Space is a conference and exhibition dedicated to advancing humanity’s future capabilities in space and highlights the trends that will define space enterprise a decade from now.
Organised by the British Interplanetary Society, each year, the conference brings together a network of innovators from industry, agency, government, financiers, academia and end users to present and discuss the key challenges and opportunities for future space leadership and growth.
The theme of this year’s conference is ‘The Commercial Revolution’ and will focus on the key benefits and emerging issues presented by the rapidly growing number of space missions and activities driven by increasing commercial activity:
“A significant change in the utilisation of Near-Earth Space is underway, resulting from the launches of very large numbers of commercial satellites. The Reinventing Space Conference in 2024 will focus on the likely implications of this revolution over the next two decades; not only for the manufacturers and operators of the satellites themselves, but also for the legal, logistical, educational, and space surveillance communities which support them”
The second day, Tuesday 12 November, will incorporate the ‘Beyond The Moon Symposium’, which will explore the “longer-term possibilities, critical challenges and key stepping stones required for the future exploration and development of space”
Thank you to all who submitted a paper, the Call for Papers is now closed.
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The 2024 Venue:
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Conference Programme
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.
The conference will host a Gala Dinner on the evening of the second day, Tuesday 12th November, which will include the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards – this event is not to be missed!
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
DAY 1 – The Commercial Revolution – 11 November
09:00 – Welcome
09:10 Keynote 1 – Gerry Griffin – The Commercial Revolution
Commercial Revolution #1
09:40 Balazs Slezak – A Crash Course On Product Development For Space
10:00 Russell Sawyer – Risk Mitigation For Commercial Space Development
10:20 Ali Raiss-Tousi – Commercial Revolution Or Laissez-Faire Anarchy: The Case Against Privatisation Of Space Activity
10:40 Coffee And Networking Break
Logistics
11:10 Jake Heath – Prototype Development Of An Autonomous Optical Space Surveillance Station Using Commercial Off The Shelf (Cots) Components
11:30 Giacomo Rossetti – Off-World Nuclear Waste Disposal
11:50 Jerry Stone – Island Zero: A Practical Gateway To Large-Scale Space Habitats That Also Offers A Base For Commercial Space Activities.
12:10 Jeroen Wink – Solving The Chicken And Egg Dilemma For In-Orbit Refuelling
12:30 Alex Ellery – Space-Based Solar Power Is The Most Sustainable Renewable Energy Option
12:50 Lunch
Poster Session (At 13:10)
Cameron Margetts – The Logistical Implications Of The Commercial Revolution In Space
Robert Manogue – Common Commercial Space Tasking And Collection Management (C2stcm) Capability
Nazib Mohammad Nur – Hyperspectral 3d Photogrammetry In An Age Of Commercial Revolution
Norman Fitz-Coy – A Machine Learning Approach For Minimization Of Identification Bias In Thin Debrisat Fragments
13:50 Keynote 2 – Lord Willetts
Philosophical And Artistic Perspectives
14:20 Nina Kojima – Panopticon On Mars; Ethical Proposal For The Extraterrestrial Settlement
14:40 Helen Schell – The Human Spaceship – Off Balance
15:00 Keynote 3 – Rolf Densing
15:30 Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
Commercial Revolution #2
16:00 Robin Tucker – Building A Commercial Space Nation – A ‘How To’ Guide
16:20 Griff Ingram – Due Diligence In Satellite Collision Avoidance: A Proposal For A Space Moot Court
16:40 Keynote 4 – Alice Bunn
Link To Beyond The Moon
17:10 Nick Spall – The Lunar Economy – Unlocking Access To The Solar System.
17:30 End Of Day
Day 2 – Beyond The Moon – 12 November
Early Morning Session – Exploring And Settling In Space.
09:00 Richard Soilleux. (Chair) – Welcome And Introduction.
09:10 Richard Soilleux – Abundances Of Construction Materials In Sources Most Convenient To High Earth And Mars Orbits.
09:30 Ahmed Usman – Sustainable Space Exploration: Ai-Powered Asteroid Mining For Fuel Production.
09:50 Alex Ellery – Faster, Better, Cheaper, More Sustainable (Leaner) Approach To Lunar Industrialisation & Beyond.
10:10 Ruth Bamford – Digger Drilling And Integrated Gigahertz-Generated Energy Resource For Lunar And Asteroid Applications.
10:30 Pete Swan. The Green Road To Space Is The Essence Of Developing Commercial Sustainable Space Operations.
10:50 Coffee And Networking Break.
Late Morning Session – Extraterrestrial Life & Future Humans.
11:20 Nina Kojima – Ethical And Practical Challenges In Detecting Extraterrestrial Life.
11:40 Samual Mckee – Taking Advantage Of Genomics And Gene Editing For Space Exploration In The Next Decade.
12:00 Elisa Ferre – The Next Small Step: Neuropsychological Challenges For Future Spaceflight
12:20 Lunch.
Poster Session (At 13:00)
Fred Francis – Some In-Situ Maintenance Processes For Mars
John Knapman – Space Elevator Research
Douglas Robinson – Extraordinary Challenges Require Extraordinary Solutions
Sanskriti Verma – Microgreens In Microgravity
The Selenar Fungi Team – Selenar Fungi
Alyson Nativel – Pikali (Public Innovation Kit For Aerospace Local Incubator)
Early Afternoon Session – The Acquisition Of Construction Materials.
13:20 Gerry Webb (Chair) – 10 Hurdles To Space Development
13:40 Robert Buckalew – Engineered Exogenesis – The Seeds Of Interstellar Colonization
14:00 Jon Mcnaught – Self-Sufficiency
14:20 Emanual Petrakakis – Vasco Da Gama To Mars Exploration
14:40 Matjaz Vidmar – Engineering Future(S) In Deep Space
15:00 – Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break
Late Afternoon Session – Novel Launch Systems
15:20 Phil Swan – Why The High Cost Of Interplanetary Space Travel Requires Us To Adopt A New Approach
15:40 Michel Lamontagne – Spinlaunch On The Moon
16:00 Pete Swan – Assembling Huge Space Systems For High Speed Release At The Top Of The Gravity Well.
16:20 – Panel Discussion
17:00 End Of Day
Day 3 – The Commercial Revolution – 13 November
09:00 – Welcome
09:10 Keynote 5 – Joanna Hart – Industry, Academia And Government Working Together Through The Space Partnership
Astrodynamics Session
09:40 Nicola Baresi – Trajectory Design Of The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (Mesom)
10:00 Danny Owen – Mapping Heteroclinic Connections Within The Lunar Vicinity
10:20 Takuto Shimazaki – Theoretical Framework Of Orbital Transfers Between Libration Point Orbits For The Avoidance Of Eclipses And Solar Radiation
10:40 Coffee And Networking Break
Human Spaceflight Operations
11:10 David Ashford – Space Tourism–The Key To Low-Cost Space Access
11:30 Simon Evetts – Commercial Human Spaceflight Forges An Evolution In Human Spaceflight Preparation
11:50 Katya Paliwoda – Managing People For Innovation, An Employee Perspective Of Agile Space Smes And Start-Ups. A Literature Review
12:10 Panel Session “An Alliance For Civil Resilience” To Be Coordinated By James Parr – TBC
12:50 Lunch
Poster Session (At 13:10)
David Roberts – Planetary Defence – Interstellar Object Sentinels.
Marc Blanchet – Using The Internet Protocol Suite For Deep Space Networking
Jan Byczkowski – The Bleak Future Of The State In Space
William Humphreys – The Sustainable Technologies For Advanced Research In Space (Stars) Program
Greg Grozdits – Acquisition And Deployment Strategy For Space Technology
Francis Walker – Evolutionary Infrastructure: A Look At The Horizon For Spaceport Master Planning
13:50 Keynote 6 – TBC
Launch
14:20 Nikki Antoniou – Why Bigger Launchers May Fundamentally Change The Space Industry
14:40 Ethan D’alessandro – Spacex Recovery Operations: A First Hand Look At How It Is Done
15:00 Student Session – Coordinator TBC
15:30 – Afternoon Coffee And Networking Break.
16:00 Keynote 7 – TBC
Technology
16:30 Betty Bonnardel – Implications Of Space Commercial Activities On Frequency Management
16:50 Ethan D’alessandro – Open Source Flight Software: The Future Of Cubesat Operations
17:10 Close
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EXHIBITION & SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Alongside the Exhibition Packages, there will be additional conference sponsorship packages, as well as individually itemised sponsorship opportunities to increase your brand reach, or enhance your presence at the 2024 Reinventing Space Conference.
DOWNLOAD the Reinventing Space 2024 Opportunities Brochure
If you are interested in taking advantage of our Sponsorship opportunities or exhibiting at the event, and for more information on the conference, please contact the Reinventing Space team at RISpace@bis-space.com with any questions.
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Gala Dinner and the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
The British Interplanetary Society organises the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards on behalf of The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards recognise and reward those individuals and teams that have made notable or outstanding achievements in, or contributions to space activities in the UK. Better known as ‘The Arthurs’, they have been presented annually since 2005.
Nominations take place across a number of different categories and can be made by anybody.
SUBMIT A NOMINATION and for more information about the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards.
The Gala Dinner and Sir Arthur Clarke Awards Ceremony will be held on the evening of Tuesday 12 November 2024.
This event is not to be missed!
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NextGen Student/Careers Day
On Wednesday 13 November a separate Student Careers Conference will be run by the BIS’ NextGen Network and the UKSEDS in parallel with the Reinventing Space Conference. This will include talks by speakers from the main conference, a careers panel and a speed mentoring session.
REGISTER for the NextGen Careers Day
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For further information please contact the Reinventing Space team at RISpace@bis-space.com with any questions.