Papers from the Tech Track 2018 program can be viewed below. Information for the upcoming Tech Track program can be found on the Tech Track page, while information about the Tech Track Call for Papers can be found here.
Thinking About the Future
Quantitative analysis of cyber risk: how do we best manage it?
Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Thinking Outside the Cube
Anita Bernie
Selling Water Sourced in Space? You Still Owe Taxes to Uncle Sam
Ulisses Ortiz
Cislunar Economy and ACES
Melissa Sampson
Technology Test Updates
Next Generation Technology
JPSS-1 – Building the Nation’s Next Generation Operational Weather Satellite
Scott Asbury
Radius of Curvature Matching System for a Space Based Segmented Telescope
David Chaney
Demonstrating Autonomous Spacecraft Assembly with the Intelligent Space Assembly Robot
Dakota Wenberg
Spacehand: The Next Generation On-Orbit-Servicing Tool
Maximilian Maier
Space Situational Awareness
Event Detection from RF Sensing
Matt Prechtel
Recent Events and Highlights in GEO SSA
Brien Flewelling, Ben Lane
Responsive SSA – Responding to New Space and Old Problems
Darren McKnight
Observation Tools, Black Holes and Weather
Wavefront Sensing and Control of the James Webb Space Telescope
Scott Acton
Advanced Lightweight Mirrors for Space-Based Missions
Ted Mooney
An Operational Update on GOES-16 and Post-Launch Status of GOES-17
Mike Stringer
Advanced Observatory Design for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) Mission
William Deininger
Technology Test Updates
Satellite Communications, Command, and Control
Space-Ground Communications Testbed
Sheldon Clark, Sarah Law
Laser Communications: Capabilities and CONOPs for the Warfighter
Justin Luczyk
Protected Satellite Command and Control (C2) Waveforms and Enhanced Satellite Resiliency
Bryan Butler
Satellite Communications, Command, and Control
Analysis of Commercial Satcom Alternatives Closing Gaps in National Security Space
Richard VanderMeulen
Small Satellites
Modern Approach to Liquid Rocket Engine Development for Microsatellite Launchers
Maksym Burlaka, Leonid Moroz
Government and IC Program Adoption of Virtualized Small Sat Ground Systems
Jordan Klepper
Satellite Fleet Operations Using a Global Ground Station Network
Naomi Kurahara
Survivability Analysis of a Small Satellite Constellation
Edward A.S. Hanlon