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The SpaceOps 2023 Technical Program Committee (TPC), composed of experts from the major space organizations in the world, will prepare an ambitious program focused on today’s achievements in space operations and outlining trends in the operations of future missions. The conference program will bring together experienced and young professionals, as well as students, from all over the world to discuss the current status and future ideas of space operations. The program consists of presentations in the following areas:

  • Mission Design and Architectures
  • Mission Simulation and Modelling
  • Mission Design for Constellations
  • Mission Design for Robotic Missions
  • Multi-mission Approaches and Strategies
  • Revectoring Old Missions to New Tasks
  • Regulations and Laws Affecting Operations
  • International, Public, and Private Cooperation
  • Operations Automation and Optimization
  • Operations Engineering
  • Operations Procedures Management
  • Operational Validation
  • Operations Concepts for Constellation and In Situ Ops
  • Operations Concepts for robotic missions
  • Payload Operations Concepts
  • Processes for Designing Operations
  • Real-time flight control, lessons and plans
  • Operations Management
  • End of Life Operations
  • Fault Management and Recovery
  • Spacecraft Emergency and Contingency Operations
  • Evolving Mission Capabilities
  • Long-Range Planning and Mission Optimization
  • Operational organization & associated skills
  • Ground Segment Architecture and Design
  • Control Centre Architectures
  • Flight Control Systems and EGSE
  • Payload Monitor and Control
  • Service Oriented Architectures
  • Software Development and Maintenance
  • Systems Engineering and System Design for Operability
  • Ground Systems Testing and Validation
  • Ground Data Systems Development, validation and Maintenance
  • On-board/ground Interfaces
  • Archive Systems and Data Mining
  • Automation and health monitoring, flight and ground Data Distribution
  • Information Architectures and Information Models
  • Payload and Science Data Handling
  • Mission Planning and Scheduling Systems
  • Asset Scheduling
  • Merging Plans from Different/many Agencies
  • Merging Plans from MOCs and SOCs
  • Planning for Planetary Relay and Surface Communications
  • Resource Management
  • Real-time Re-planning Techniques
  • Science Observation Planning
  • Detailed Crew Planning versus “Job Jars”
  • Flight Dynamics and Navigation
  • Attitude Determination and Control
  • Challenges in Trajectory Design and Analysis
  • Interplanetary Missions
  • Formation/Constellation Management
  • Global Navigation Systems and Applications
  • GNC and Astrodynamics Software
  • Techniques for Using Earth-Orbital Global Positioning System
  • (GPS) at Lunar Distances
  • GPS Constellations for Other Planetary Bodies
  • Communications, Ground and Space Networking Network Operations and Management
  • Integrating Communications Networks
  • Ground Network and Antenna Concepts
  • Communications Architectures for Complex Constellations
  • Operational Impact of Spectrum Allocations
  • Layered versus Integrated Architectures
  • Backup Communications Approaches
  • Interplanetary Networking
  • Mission Architectures for Human Spaceflight Operations with Space Tourists On-board
  • Flight Crew Operations Techniques and Training Human Operations with Long Light-speed Delays Long Duration Human Missions – New Concepts Crew-driven Requirements (videoconference, comm. bandwidth, etc.)
  • Medical Operations in Human Missions (not an emphasis on medical techniques)
  • Reliability (RMA) Standards and Methods, Unique for Human Spaceflight
  • Human/Robotic Integration and Cooperation Habitat Operations, Orbital and Planetary Surface Space Environment Factors for Human Lunar/Mars Mission Design
  • Utilization of the International Space Station (ISS)
  • Air and Space Traffic Management
  • Commercial Manned Spaceflight
  • Lean and Lights-out Commercial Control Centers
  • Managing a Constellation of Satellites
  • Operations with Space Tourists On-board
  • Training Spaceflight Participants
  • Commercial Utilization of ISS
  • Approaches to introduce AI in operations
  • AI operational processes
  • Methods and algorithms (Machine Learning, Neural networks, reinforcement techniques, etc.)
  • AI integration & interfaces in operational ground segments
  • AI in planning and scheduling (on-board and on ground)
  • AI in payloads mission data processing
  • AI on-board space systems autonomy
  • Space Transportation Operations include Balloons, Airplanes, Sounding Rockets, Launchers and Space-tugs related operations
  • Operational concepts for Space Transportation Systems including associated Ground Facilities
  • Launch Systems and associated Facilities Operations
  • Space Transportation Systems Availability, Reliability, Integrated Health Monitoring and Risk Management
  • Space Transportation Vehicles Engines Test Bench Operations
  • Space Transportation Systems Ground Processing Operations
  • Spaceports, Launch Bases, Launch Ranges and Launch Pads Infrastructure & Logistics
  • New Space Transportation Systems
  • Sustainability of space operations in New Space era
  • Approaches for reducing existing debris and for preventing new debris creation
  • Concepts for monitoring conjunctions and collision avoidance
  • Space Traffic Coordination for active satellites
  • International regulations and applicable space law
  • Space weather information needs for the space operations community
  • Robustness of satellite operations to space weather events
  • Impacts of space weather on the end-to-end system
  • Operational concepts for optimized response to space weather warnings
  • Post-anomaly analysis for space weather events.
  • Human Factor & Behavior in Operations
  • Control Rooms and Operations Rooms, Tools & Techniques
  • Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Lessons Learned Assessment & Management
  • Training Methodologies
  • Simulation Methods & Tools
  • Simulation and Training Operations, Techniques
  • Educational and Inspirational applications of Space Operations
  • Government, Agencies and corporate outreach programs
  • Communications Standards (Link Layer, Network Layer, Application Layer etc.)
  • Software Standards
  • Modelling standards
  • Interoperability and Cross Support Standards
  • Tele-Robotics Standards
  • Other Relevant Standards
  • Applying Standards to Space Missions
  • Cross Support Catalogues, Development and Utilization
  • Interoperability Successes and Failures