Optical Payloads for NewSpace 6/11 PM and 7/11 full day:

• Current optical payloads commercially available in Europe for Newspace applications
• Innovative optical designs for CubeSat and micro-satellites.
• Future compact optical payload concepts for both scientific and commercial applications.
• Academical developments related to Newspace and compact scientific optical payloads.
• Novel observation concepts for optical satellites.

Please notice that the abstract should be related to the design or the performance of a full optical payload. Abstracts related to components or subsystems should be submitted to “Game Changers” topic.

                       Game-changers                         8/11 full day and 9/11 AM: 

Novel optical components and technologies unlocking new architectures, performances and functionalities for small to large Earth Observation and Science optical payloads such as 

• Novel optical materials and components e.g.
• Novel materials and coatings (e.g. Gradient index materials, metamaterials,…)
• Flat optics
• Novel gratings and slits
• Active and adaptive components
• Novel subsystem concepts e.g.
• Novel instrument architectures, e.g. static FTS, hyperspectral
• Mirror segmentation and deployable systems
• Novel line of sight stabilization
• Novel AIT approaches e.g.
• Novel calibration architectures
• In-orbit manufacturing/servicing
• Novel Integration and Testing of large optical payloads
• Optimized MAIT for serial-produced payloads
• Novel tools impacting optics development e.g.
• Novel optical design methods and software tools
• Additive manufacturing
• AI-based optical system architecture optimization
• Novel optical sensing techniques e.g.
• Interferometric applications
• Smart sensors and focal plane assemblies
• Distributed aperture sensing

Compressed sensing

            Straylight:           9/11 PM and 10/11 AM

• Straylight characterisation
• Metrology approaches
• Test setups
• Calibration (on-ground and in-orbit straylight)
• Straylight simulation
• Modelling straylight sources (scattering, contamination, diffraction)
• Assessment tools and approaches
• Performance analyses
• Straylight mitigation
• Prevention strategies
• Low straylight components
• Correction and post-processing
• Straylight performance
• Components (coatings, gratings)
• Systems and subsystem