PocketQube Workshop

A decision on this workshop and the potential dates still need to be determined. Check this website regularly and/or sign up to the DelfiSpace twitter to get updated. If you have attended the workshop in the past before, you will also receive an email once more details are known.

The 2nd PocketQube Workshop is held on Thursday 22nd on Friday 23rd  of March 2018 at ‘De BouwCampus’ at TU Delft, The Netherlands. With approximately 60 participants from 18 different countries, it was very successful.

Presentations

The presentations of this workshop can be found here

Program

The workshop has successfully concluded on Friday, 24th of March 2017 in the Aula of TU Delft (the Netherlands). With approximately 50 participants from more than 10 different countries, it was very successful.

Presentations

The presentations of this workshop can be found here

Program

Friday 24th of March

Time              Presenter    Topic
8:45 - 9:30 Welcome with coffee (any time)
9.30 - 9.40 Eberhard Gill (TU Delft / The Netherlands) Introduction
9:40 - 10:00 Frank Zeppenfeldt (ESA / The Netherlands) Funding opportunities with ESA Telecommunications
10:00 - 10:20 Tom Walkinshaw (Alba Orbital / United Kingdom) Overview of Alba Orbital (PQ Shop) and the Development of the Unicorn PocketQubes
10:20 - 10:40 Stuart McAndrew (Australia) Building a Satellite from Scratch: The DIY Engineering behind OzQube-1
10:40 - 11:00    Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 Jo Hinchliffe (amateur / United Kingdom) PocketQube chassis design and realisation on a budget
11:20 - 11:40 George Addison (Catapult Satellite Application United Kingdom) Ubo PocketQube – Lowering the barriers to space
11:40 - 12:00 Craig Hay (Alba Orbital / United Kingdom) Lessons from Unicorn-1, the 1st commercially built PocketQube platform
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 Chantal Cappelletti (Gauss / Italy) Overview on launched picosats, deployment system and future launch opportunities
13:20 - 13:40 Gábor Géczy (Budapest University / Hungary) Results from SMOG-1 P
13:40 - 14:00 Gustavo Carpignano (DIYsatellite / Argentina) The ArduiQube project
14:00 - 14:20 Rakesh Chandra Prajapati (ORION Space / Nepal) Overview of ORION Space, Nepal and the Development CanSat. Next project: PocketQube
14:20 - 14:40 Stefano Speretta (TU Delft / The netherlands) Delfi-PQ: An Iterative Development Towards Highly Capable PocketQubes
14:40 - 15:00 Cofee break
15:00 - 15:20 Jonathan Camilleri (University of Birmingham / United Kingdom) Smart antennas for ionospheric sensing with PocketQubes and CubeSats
15:20 - 15:40 Jaroslav Laifr (SkyFox Labs / Czech Republic) PocketQube GPS Receiver pqNAV-L1
15:40 - 16:00 Stefano Silvestrini (TU Delft / The Netherlands) Development of a micro-propulsion system for PocketQube applications
16:00 - 16:20 Kevin Worrall (University of Glasgow / United Kingdom) PocketQubes: Do we need a standard?
16:20 - 16:40 Jasper Bouwmeester (TU Delft / The Netherlands) Structural Outline and Electrical Interface Standard for PocketQubes.
16:40 - 17:10  Moderator: Alessandra Menicucci Discussion on PocketQube Standards
17:10 - 17:15  Alessandra Menicucci Closing Remarks
17:15 - 20:00