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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This programme is correct on the current date of publication (06 Septemebr 2023). 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 |
Chair – Alan Cross |
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 |
Chair – Andrew Ratcliffe – UKSA |
11:00 |
Establishing Africa’s First Space Launch Capability |
Jean Pitot |
10:20 |
Atlanta Energy Relay Architecture: Alternative to Finite Fuel Restrictive |
Matthew Harris |
11:40 |
Share My Space |
Hugues Chopard |
12:00 |
Pathways to accurate and effective SSA and SDA |
Daniel Oltrogge |
12:20 |
The Artemis Accords |
Steve Mirmina |
12:40 |
Lunch
+ Poster Session: 13:00 Propulsion At Scale Via Impulsive Retrograde Collisions 13:05 Autonomous Orbit Maintenance and Control (moved to Thursday 12 Oct) |
Philip Baldock Abdul Lawal |
13:40 |
Afternoon Session – Platforms and Science # 1 |
Chair – Bob Morris |
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 / Kathryn Graham |
14:20 |
The Design of CubeSats for Outer Solar System Scientific Missions |
Shayne Beegadhur |
14:40 |
STFC Sponsor Presentation: UKRI-STFC Your Partner in Space |
Alan Cross |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:20 |
UK Session |
Chair – Stuart Eves |
15:20 |
Proxy Star Wars: the growing threat of grey-zone activities in the space domain |
Daniel Francis |
15:40 |
UKSA Presentation #1
Disruptive Technology in the Space Industry: Support, Development and Trends |
Andy Ratcliffe |
16:20 |
UKSA Presentation #2
Secure, safe & resilient architecture for New Space: why is it important? |
Stephen Straughan |
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 |
Morning Session |
Chair – Stuart Eves |
09:00 |
Invited Speaker – AstroMagnetic Systems |
Adam Baker |
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 |
Building logistics infrastructure for economic development in space |
Simon Reid |
10:40 |
Break |
|
11:00 |
Space Technology #2 |
Chair – Alan Cross |
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 |
Setting the earth-space boundary: a case of ‘urgency before regret’ |
Ali Raiss-Tousi |
12:20 |
Orbital Locker |
Cameron Margetts |
12:40 |
Lunch
+ Poster Session: 13:00 Minimizing the Material Bias for Thin DebriSat Fragments 13:05 Considerations for High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) in New Space 13:10 Materials for reusable rockets – combined thermal and salt water exposure testing 13:15 Novel exotic Al-Fe-Cr-Ti alloys with enhanced specific properties achieved via extreme heat treatments |
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 |
How to Avoid the Complexity Trap |
Hans-Christian Brockmann |
14:40 |
Composite Pressure Vessel: Effect of Graphene and Other 2d Materials in 3d Multiaxial Composites for Low Earth Orbit Habitat |
Ruihan Wang / Leping Wu |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:20 |
Technology Session #3
Invited Speaker – Unlocking the Super Powers of LEO SAR Invited Speaker – Space Traffic Control – Progress and Problems Invited Speaker – Rolls Royce |
Chair – Stuart Eves
Jeffrey Pennings Stuart Eves Jon Adams |
17:00 |
Close |
Day 3 – Friday 13th October
“The BIS 90th Anniversary and Beyond the Moon Symposium”
Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
09:00 |
Introduction |
Alistair Scott |
09:10 |
The History of the BIS – The First 90 Years |
Bob Parkinson |
10:00 |
The Future of the BIS – The Next 90 Years? |
Simon Feast |
10:20 |
The iPhone Moment for Space Entrepreneurship |
Balázs Slezák |
10:40 |
Break |
|
11:00 |
KEYNOTE: GNOSIS: Space Sustainability |
Katherine Courtney |
11:30 |
The British Interplanetary Society and Astra Carta |
Grif Ingram |
The Third ‘BEYOND THE MOON’ Symposium |
Chair – Richard Soilleux |
|
11:50 |
Introduction |
Richard Soilleux |
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 |
The Settlement Of Space: Economic And Logistical Drivers And Constraints |
Richard Soilleux |
14:00 |
The Ultimate Architecture – The Space Elevator |
Peter Robinson & Adrian Nixon |
14:20 |
Scorpion Beyond the Moon |
Mark Hempsell |
14:40 |
Interplanetary Fusion Powered Spaceships |
Michel Lamontagne |
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:00 |
Interstellar Session |
|
15:20 |
The 50th Anniversary of Daedalus |
Alan Bond and Tony Martin |
15:40 |
Project Icarus – Update and Project Conclusions |
Rob Swinney |
16:00 |
Beyond the Moon Panel Discussion
‘Humanity’s Future in Space’ Panelists: Bob Parkinson, Michel Lamontagne, Helen Schell, Mark Hempsell, Nina Kojima, Sophie Bywater, Peter Robinson |
Chair: Richard Soilleux |
16:55 |
Reinventing Space Conference 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 |