The book of abstracts is available here.
July 30 – August 1, 2018
Science and Engineering Hall, the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Another version of the workshop program is available here.
July 30th 2018, Monday
Arrival and Reception
| TIME | Activity | Where |
| 16:00-17:30 | Executive Committee Meeting | SEH 2000 |
| 18:00 | Reception | City View Room, 7th floor of 1957 E Street Bldg |
July 31th 2018, Tuesday
| Time | Activity |
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Michael Keidar, George Washington University Opening remarks, GWU micropropulsion program |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | John Ziemer, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Micropropulsion Technology Development at NASA JPL |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Randy Sakowitz, Vector Launch Inc. Vector Launch Overview |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Paulo Lozano, MIT Microfabricated electrospray propulsion for small satellites |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Hiroyuki Koizumi, U. Tokyo Research and development status of a water micropropulsion system for cubesat missions |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee break; Group photo |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Denis Zolotukhin, George Washington University Optimization of micro-cathode arc thruster lifetime |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Josh Rovey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Multi-mode Micropropulsion |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Jonathan Kolbeck, George Washington University History and lesson learned from CubeSats with propulsion |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Amelia Greig, CalPoly, USA Putting it all Together: Integration Considerations for CubeSat Propulsion |
| 12:00 – 13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Jin Kang, US Naval Academy Propulsion Wish List: Desired Capabilities and Applications of CubeSat Propulsion from the End User’s Perspective |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Daniel Cavender, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center The new importance of Cubesats in green propulsion technology development and infusion |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Minkwan Kim, U. Southampton, UK Development of a thin-layer vacuum arc thruster |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Stephane Mazouffre, CNRS, France Incoherent Thomson scattering investigations for low-power propulsion plasmas |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Yongjie Ding, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Research Progress of the 10W Hall Thruster in Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Francesco Taccogna, CNR-Nanotec-P.Las.M.I.lab, Italy Simulation Study of ExB Electron Drift Instability in Hall Thruster |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Iain Boyd, U. Michigan, USA An Overview of Plume Simulations for Micropropulsion Devices |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Ahsan Choudhuri, U.Texas El Paso, USA Orbital Factory X: An AF-M315E Based Propulsion Module for SmallSats |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Stephen Gabriel, Mars-Space, UK Cubesat and other electric propulsion activities at Mars Space and the University of Southampton |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Mark Lim, NTU, Singapore Micropropulsion research in Singapore |
| 18:00 | Dinner at District ChopHouse - The Vault Room (509 7th St NW#1, Washington DC) |
August 1th 2018, Wednesday
| Time | Activity |
| 08:00 – 08:20 | Registration |
| 08:20 – 08:40 | Eric Pencil, NASA Glenn NASA Glenn SmallSat/CubeSat Activities and Capabilities |
| 08:40 – 09:00 | David Krejci, Enpulsion, Austria In-Orbit Results and Capabilities of the IFM Nano FEEP Thruster |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Dan Courtney, Busek Inc., USA Busek Micropropulsion Technologies |
| 09:20 – 9:40 | Sven Bilen, PennState U, USA CubeSat-scale Microwave Electrothermal Thrusters using Green Propellants |
| 9:40 – 10:00 | Yevgeny Raitses, PPPL, USA Operation of cylindrical Hall thrusters with externally driven low frequency oscillations |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Mitchell Walker, GeorgiaTech, USA Thermally induced cracks and their effect on Hall thruster channel erosion |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | David Carroll, CUA, USA Micropropulsion Technologies for High Volumetric Impulse |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Lubos Brieda, PIC-C, USA Studies of vacuum arc thruster insulator erosion using a PIC-DEM method |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Benjamin Jorns, U. Michigan, USA Limitations in the Use of ICP Magnetic Nozzles for Small Sat Propulsion |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Jochen Schein, U. Bn. Munchen, Germany 3.5 cm RIT: long term performance and suitability for Microsatellites |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Taeyoung Lee, George Washington University Optimal low thrust exploration of asteroid |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Weizhong Wang, Beihang University, China Modeling of coaxial of pulsed plasma thruster encompassing the ablation and deposition process |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Kan Xie, Beijing Institute of Technology, China The discharge instability of hollow cathode and influence on the sputtering lifetime of ion thruster |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Madhu Kundrapu, Tech-X Corporation Multi-fluid and MHD models for partially ionized plasmas in electric propulsion devices |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Daniela Pedrini, SITAEL, Italy Low-Power Electric Propulsion Activities at SITAEL |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Final Discussions |
