Invited Speakers

John Ziemer, NASA JPL, “Micropropulsion Technology Development at NASA JPL”
Alexander Reissner, Enpulsion, Austria, “High-Volume Production of the IFM Nano Thruster – Lessons Learned from a new Chapter in EP Manufacturing”
Jim Cantrell, Vector Space Systems, TBD
Paulo Lozano, MIT, “Microfabricated electrospray propulsion for small satellites”
Amelia Greig, CalPoly, “Putting it all Together: Integration Considerations for CubeSat Propulsion”
Hiroyuki Koizumi, U. Tokyo, Japan, "Research and development status of a water micropropulsion system for cubesat missions"
Jochen Schein, U. Bn. Munchen, Germany, “3.5 cm RIT: long term performance and suitability for Microsatellites”
Dan Courtney, Busek Inc, “Busek Micropropulsion Technologies”
Benjamin Jorns, U. Michigan, “Limitations in the Use of ICP Magnetic Nozzles for Small Sat Propulsion”
Josh Rovey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Multi-mode Micropropulsion”
Daniel Cavender, NASA Marshall, TBD
Mitchell Walker, GeorgiaTech
Yevgeny Raitses, PPPL, “Miniature ExB thruster”
Minkwan Kim, U. Southampton, UK, TBD
Iain Boyd, U. Michigan, "An Overview of Plume Simulations for Micropropulsion Devices"
Ahsan Choudhuri, U.Texas El Paso, “Orbital Factory X: An AF-M315E Based Propulsion Module for SmallSats”
Stephane Mazouffre, CNRS, France, “Incoherent Thomson scattering investigations for low-power propulsion plasmas”
David Carroll, CU Aero, “High Thrust and Total Impulse Micropropulsion Technologies”
Francesco Taccogna, “Use of Hall microthruster as H2 dissociator”
Jonathan Kolbeck, GWU, “History and lesson learned from CubeSats with propulsion”
Ane Aanesland, ThrustMe, France, Performance tests of a complete stand-alone electric propulsion system based on cathode-less gridded ion thruster embedded into a 1U
Yongjie Ding, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, “Research Progress of the 10W Hall Thruster in Harbin Institute of Technology”
Kan Xie, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, “The discharge instability of hollow cathode and influence on the sputtering lifetime of ion thruster”
Weizhong Wang, Beihang University, Chine, “Modeling of coaxial of pulsed plasma thruster encompassing the ablation and deposition process”
Shuyan Xu, NTU, Singapore, “High Isp miniature Hall thruster for small satellite propulsion”
Igor Levchenko, NTU, Singapore, ‘Cubesat-based electric propulsion thrust system"
Lubos Brieda, PIC-C, “Studies of vacuum arc thruster insulator erosion using a PIC-DEM method”
Stephen Gabriel, Mars-space, UK, TBD
Taeyoung Lee, GWU, Optimal low thrust exploration of asteroid
Jin Kang, US Naval Academy, Propulsion Wish List: Desired Capabilities and Applications of CubeSat Propulsion from the End User’s Perspective
Francis Thio, Hyperjetfusion Corp, TBD
Madhu Kundrapu, Tech-X Corporation