SpaceLab 2014

25 September 2014 Sir Alexander Fleming Building www.imperial.ac.uk/spacelab Programme SpaceLab 2014

09:15 Registration 10:00 Welcome and introduction Welcome to Professor Steven Schwartz, Director, Imperial SpaceLab Professor James Stirling, Provost,

Morning Plenary Imperial SpaceLab 2014 Astrostatistics, Cosmology and Brains: Model Testing in Few and Many Dimensions Professor Alan Heavens, Imperial College London The second annual conference in space science, Lightweight Manufacturing Technologies engineering, medicine and business. Dr Liliang Wang, Imperial College London : Why we are Chasing a Comet? Dr Marina Galand, Imperial College London Delivering Growth Through the UK Civil Space Strategy James Stirling Catherine Mealing-Jones, UK Space Agency Provost, Imperial College London 12:15 Lunch and the Research Marketplace Over an extended lunchtime, participants will be able to browse exhibits and find out more at spotlights in the It’s my great pleasure to welcome you all to Imperial SpaceLab 2014. Initiatives such as the SpaceLab, Research Marketplace which brings together academics across the College working on shared problems, both demonstrate Imperial’s existing research strengths and push us to develop our capabilities further. I look forward to 14:00 Afternoon plenary seeing SpaceLab go from strength to strength over the next year and beyond. Challenges in Planetary Protection Dr Gerhard Kminek, Carrington: The UK Next Generation Space Weather Monitoring Mission Dr Markos Trichas, Airbus Defence and Space Providing Commercial Landscape Intelligence Platforms Through Prof Steven Schwartz Simon Hepworth Earth Observation Director, Imperial SpaceLab Director, Enterprise Tim Vallings, Rezatec Autonomous Computing and Software Systems Professor Julie McCann, Imperial College London Welcome to Imperial SpaceLab 2014. It’s wonderful to see you all here at the The past year, our first, has seen us second annual SpaceLab conference - 15:50 Refreshments chase a comet, win leading roles on our chance to communicate the fantastic scientific missions, conduct dialogues research that Imperial is engaged in. 16:10 Panel discussion with government agencies, and initiate We’ve worked hard to produce a more Introduction: What’s the Point of Space Policy? partnerships with both space and non- interactive event this year, with keynote Professor David Southwood, Imperial College London space commercial enterprises. Today’s presentations, demonstrations, pitches, event emphasises the excellence of posters, and time for networking, which Debate: How Can we Collaborate to Raise Impact? Imperial’s broad research portfolio, and we hope will lead to lasting connections David Southwood (Chair) the increasingly important element of beyond the day itself. The SpaceLab Professor Richard Templer, Director, Climate KIC external collaboration. As you listen to is a chance to connect our researchers Professor Michele Dougherty, Imperial College London the presentations and wander through with industry, and other stakeholders, to Paul Febvre, Satellite Applications Catapult the Research Marketplace, let your explore opportunities for collaboration. Doug Liddle, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd imagination conjure up new ideas and opportunities. 17:20 Closing remarks Professor Maggie Dallman, Dean of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London 17:30 Networking reception

25 September 2014 | Sir Alexander Fleming Building | www.imperial.ac.uk/spacelab About the speakers SpaceLab 2014

Professor Alan Heavens Dr Liliang Wang Tim Vallings Professor Julie Mccann

Alan is Professor of Astrostatistics at Liliang is a Research Fellow in the Department Tim is the Commercial Director at Rezatec; a Julie is Professor of Computing Systems at Imperial, and Director of the Imperial Centre of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial. He company founded in 2012 to help businesses Imperial and leads the Adaptive Emergent for Inference and Cosmology. His main received his PhD degree from Delft University better manage their land-based assets by Systems Engineering group. Her work revolves research work is in cosmology, where he has of Technology and joined the College in making use of the increasingly sophisticated around autonomous computer systems and developed principled statistical methods for 2009. His research experience is in metal but complex array of Earth Observation how they adapt to new environments, drawing analysing a number of different types of data, forming and process modelling, which (EO) imagery and data. Tim has nearly inspiration from nature’s intricate systems. including galaxy surveys, distortion patterns includes finite element modelling of metal 20 years of international commercial and Julie has collaborated with the Royal College in the shapes of distant galaxies caused by forming processes, tribology in metal forming development experience gained with Intertek of Arts, The University of the Arts, Interactive light bending along the line of sight, and light processes and the development of advanced plc, Combisafe and Helveta Ltd. He spent Institute Stockholm, Sun Microsystems, left over from the Big Bang. He is a Director metal forming technologies. His work has nine years with Intertek living and working in Thames and Severn-Trent Water, BT, Arup, of Blackford Analysis, a spin-out company of found wide applications in the aviation and Mozambique and Rwanda, directing national- and the BBC to name a few. She has also the University of Edinburgh specialising in aerospace companies, including Aviation scale monitoring programs. Since 2010, he has been a consultant for TV and film on occasion medical image analysis, and is a Fellow of the Industry of China and China Academy of been working with software in the extractive and has been invited to talk on self-adaptive Royal Society of Edinburgh. Launch Vehicle Technology. industries, focused on forestry, energy, water computing to audiences such as NASA and and food. European Space Agency. Dr Marina Galand Catherine Mealing-Jones

Marina is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial. In 2012, Catherine joined the UK Space Agency She investigates solar and auroral particle on loan from the Home Office as Director for Panel Discussion: energy deposition in atmospheres of bodies Growth, Applications and EU Programmes. throughout the solar system. She collaborates Her role was made permanent in 2014. She Professor David Southwood with science teams of major space missions, is responsible for expanding the UK Space Panel Chair including Cassini, , and Agency on a national and international scale Rosetta, using sophisticated kinetic and fluid by monitoring global and European space Professor Richard Templer models to bind elements between datasets bodies, such as the Global Monitoring for David is a Professor of Space and Atmospheric Director, from different instruments to optimise the Environment and Security. She is responsible Physics at Imperial, and a member of the Climate KIC scientific output. She is a Co-Investigator for overseeing innovation and growth Steering Board of the UK Space Agency. for the Rosetta Plasma Consortium and has strategy. Her previous roles include Director Until 2011, he was the Director of Science published more than 60 papers in major of Technology and Business Change at UK and Robotic Exploration at the European international journals. She was awarded the Border Agency, and Deputy Regional Director Space Agency in Paris, a post he held for a Zeldovich Medal in 2006 for her contribution of Corporate Development at the Government decade. His other notable roles include Head Professor Michele Dougherty in Space Physics. office for the East of England. of Earth Observation Strategy at ESA and Professor of Space Physics, Head of the Physics Department at Imperial. Imperial College London He is also chairman of the Board of Trustees Dr Gerhard Kminek Dr Markos Trichas of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, past president of the Royal Astronomical Society and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Gerhard is Planetary Protection Officer Prior to joining Airbus Defence and Space, Society. Paul Febvre at European Space Agency (ESA). He is Markos was a researcher at Harvard University, Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the development and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Imperial. Debate: How can we collaborate Satellite Applications Catapult maintenance of the ESA planetary protection Since joining the Space Future Programmes requirements and standards, and for the for Earth Observation, Navigation and to raise impact? monitoring and independent verification Science team at Airbus he has led the Space At Imperial there is little doubt we have of their correct implementation in ESA Weather and Near Earth Objects detection frontrank researchers and we’re out there programmes. Since 2008, he has been the and mitigation programmes. He is also part doing things on the final frontier. However, vice-chair of the Committee on Space Research of Airbus’ Innovations team, responsible space is also a government-identified Doug Liddle Planetary Protections Panel. In his talk, he for identifying, researching and promoting economic area with good growth potential. Head of Science, will briefly describe the origin and scope future technologies. He has authored and How does the “publish or perish” world of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited of planetary protection and subsequently co-authored more than sixty papers, with an aspiring academic fit with applying their address the new challenges related to recent almost 4000 citations. Markos holds a PhD in innovative skills to help economic growth? discoveries on Mars, sample return missions astrophysics from Imperial. Imperial is host to talents which should be from different planets and moons in the solar harnessed and collaboration looks the way to system, and human missions. do it. But what is needed?

25 September 2014 | Sir Alexander Fleming Building | www.imperial.ac.uk/spacelab Research Marketplace SpaceLab 2014

The SpaceLab is a network of 140 researchers working across aeronautics, Contributors Organisation Title materials, instrumentation, high-energy physics, mathematics and data Richard Templer Climate-KIC Climate Change and Space analysis, computing and software, earth sciences and civil engineering, and Catherine Oriel robotics, climate change and environmental policy, security, and business and biological risks – to name only a few areas. You can find out more Stephen Fuller GRACE Supporting Students and Businesses in Downstream Applications of the Satellite Programme about our capabilities and research themes at www.imperial.ac.uk/spacelab. Chris Cochrane Imperial College London The Highlands of Venus This year we have introduced a Research Marketplace to the conference Gareth S. Collins, Katarina Imperial College London Large Impact Crater Formation on the Moon and Earth programme to showcase what Imperial can do and to learn more about Miljkovic and Mark Wieczorek key initiatives taking place within the sector. Take the opportunity to start Matthew Genge Imperial College London Meteorites, Cosmic Dust and Impact Rocks: Messengers From conversations and build new connections. the Past We have programmed nine spotlights, taking place at three screens within Sophie Damy Imperial College London Space-Based Technologies to Support Railway Operations the Marketplace, to showcase and explore just some of the space research Thomas Davison Imperial College London Impact Processing of Planetesimals in the Early Solar System and work ongoing in the following fields: planetary impact, lasers, space Adam Masters Imperial College London Cassini- Science weather, magnetometers, next-generation satellites, antenna technology, handling intellectual property, and satellite data communications services. Patrick Brown, Leah-Nani Imperial College London J-MAG Consortium: Magnetometer Science on the JUICE mission Alconcel and Michele Dougherty If something catches your attention and you would like to discuss how Vidhya Sridhar Imperial College London Array Signal Processing for Space Applications to take an idea forward, Imperial’s Corporate Partnerships team will be on hand during the day. Alternatively please follow up with Josie Worner Helen Brindley, Richard Bantges, Imperial College London Spectral Signatures of Climate Variability and Change Diagnosed from Jacqueline Russell, Jonathan IASI and IRIS Satellite Observations on [email protected]. Murray, Christopher Dancel, Claudio Belotti and John Harries Contributors Organisation Title Time David Johnson Imperial College London Data Science Institute Sian Williams, Jamie Banks, Imperial College London Monitoring Clouds and Aerosol and their Effect on the Earth’s • Michael Damzen Imperial College London Next Generation Space Lasers for Future Earth 13:00 James Ingram and Helen Brindley Radiation Balance from Space Observation Missions Enrico Biffis, Erik Chavez Imperial College London Using Satellite Data to Manage Extreme Weather Risk in Current and and Wouter Buytaert Future Climate Scenarios: An Application to the Rural Sector • Patrick Brown and Imperial College London Instrumentation for Space Physics and Industrial 13:10 in Mozambique Barry Whiteside Partnerships Soraia Pimenta Imperial College London Recycled Composites for Damage Tolerant Applications Luc Vandeperre Imperial College London Ceramics in Space at the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC) • James Lewis Imperial College London Understanding the Interactions Between Organic 13:20 Compounds and Geological Materials Within Earth, Matthew Santer Imperial College London Small-Satellite Deployables the Solar System and Beyond Cedo Maksimovic Imperial College London The Blue Green Dream: Achieving Climate Change Resilience for and Karl M Smith Future Cities • Richard Ghail Imperial College London The Vensar Phased Array Radar for Envision: Taking 13:00 Joaquim Peiro and Mashy Hazan Imperial College London Modelling Slosh Dynamics Using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Europe’s Earth Observing Expertise to our Nearest Exoearth Mirko Kovac Imperial College London Aerial Robotics for Planetary Exploration Christopher Chen, Simon Good, Imperial College London Space Plasma Physics Research at Imperial College London • Gareth S. Collins and Imperial College London iSALE: A Multi-Material, Multi-Rheology Shock 13:10 Heli Hietala, Timothy Horbury, Lorenzo Matteini Thomas M. Davison Physics Code for Simulating Planetary Impact Phenomena Susarla Raghuram, Lorenzo Imperial College London Rosetta Plasma Science at Imperial College London: Comet 67P Matteini, Marina Galand, Steve Under Scrutiny Schwartz, Chris Carr, Emanuele • Jonathan Eastwood Imperial College London Space Weather Research at Imperial College London 13:20 Cupido and Anthony Allen Liliang Wang Imperial College London Fast Hot Stamping Process: A Novel Lightweight Forming Technology • Kumar Singarajah Avanti Next Generation Ka-band Satellite Systems - Key 13:00 for Manufacturing High Strength, Complex-Shaped Components R&D Steps Needed to Increase Satellite Capacity Jane Cryer Imperial Consultants Space Experts at Your Service Michael Johnson JA Open Source Mass Customisable Generic Spacecraft for Interplanetary • Philip Davies Deimos Space UK Ltd Deimos-2: Heralding A New Generation of 13:10 Space Exploration Low-Cost High-Resolution Imaging Satellites Andrew Bowyer Magna Parva In-Orbit Manufacture of Very Large Space Structures • Lamia Baker Imperial Innovations Technology Transfer 13:20 Michael Popov Prime States Quantum Lab Ltd Quantum LUCA Hypothesis Nick Potts Printech Circuit Laboratories Ltd Bespoke PCB Solutions for Space Missions • Screen 1 | • Screen 2 | • Screen 3 Gavin Ward Quintec - a Thales business Gateway to New UK Research Opportunities in Space With Thales

25 September 2014 | Sir Alexander Fleming Building | www.imperial.ac.uk/spacelab SpaceLab 2014

About the SpaceLab

The Imperial College SpaceLab launched in July 2013. It was set up to encourage new collaborations and increase translation activity between Imperial’s researchers and the space sector. The network of 140 researchers works across space science, engineering, medicine and business. If you would like to find out more about things you’ve heard today, or would like to discuss a potential collaboration, please contact: Professor Steven Schwartz, Director T: +44 (0)207 594 7660 E: [email protected]

Josie Worner, Corporate Partnerships Senior Associate T: +44 (0)207 594 3798 E: [email protected]

Dr Rebecca Wilson, Corporate Partnerships Senior Associate T: +44 (0)207 594 3798 E: [email protected]