Schedule

*Activities listed as in-person only may be cancelled at the discretion of the organizers. These events will proceed pending University policies and the status of COVID-19.
See the COVID-19 Response page for more details on steps the organizers are taking to help keep meeting attendees safe and healthy!
You can download a PDF of the schedule here!

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 

Time (MST)

Activity

Location

Comments

09:00 - 9:15

Opening Remarks

Drachman Hall Room A114

In-person

09:15 - 10:20

Keynote session 1

V. Reddy and R. Furfaro. Opportunities and Challenges in Cislunar Object Characterization

Drachman Hall Room A114

In-person

10:20 - 12:00

Technical Session 1 (hybrid)

Chair-person: E. Plis

 

 

 

 

Drachman Hall

Room A114

 

 

10:20 – 10:40

T. Campbell. Stingray: Photometric Survey of the GEO Belt (student talk)

In-person

 

 

In-person

10:40 – 11:00

E. Pearce. Multi-spectral Satellite Measurements at Steward Observatory from the Visible to the IR

In-person

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:40

H. Cowardin. Spectral Characterization of Modern Spacecraft Materials supporting MISSE.

 

Virtual

11:40 – 12:00

P. Castro. Simultaneous Multi-spectral Photometry from the Peacock System.

 

Virtual

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch (provided by University of Arizona)

Drachman Hall Room A116

 

13:30 – 15:30

Technical Session 2 (hybrid)

Chair-person: E. Pearce

 

 

 

 

 

Drachman Hall

Room A114

 

 

13:30 – 14:10

D. Ferguson. Remote Sensing of Arcing on Satellites –A Chronology

Virtual

14:10 – 14:30

J. Shah. Characterization of various polymer materials in a simulated LEO and GEO environment.

In-person

14:30 – 15:00

A. Battle. RAPTORS Survey: Updates on a Visible Spectral Atlas of GEO Satellites (student talk)

In-person

15:00 – 15:30

A. Battle, N. Pearson. The Biosphere 2 star party outline

In-person

15:30 – 16:30

Transportation to Biosphere 2 (in-person only)

 

 

16:30 – 18:00

Tour of Biosphere 2  Telescopes (in-person only)

Biosphere 2

18:00 – 19:30

Outdoor Banquet (in-person only) – please bring  a WARM JACKET

Biosphere 2

19:30 – 21:00

Star Party and Observational Spectroscopy Workshop (in-person only)

Biosphere 2

21:00 – 22:00

Return to Campus

 

 

 Thursday, March 10th, 2022

 

Time (MST)

Activity

Location

Comments

09:30 – 10:30

Workshop on Observational Spectroscopy Data Reduction/Analysis

A. Battle

Drachman Hall Room A114

In-person

10:30 – 11:00

Break

Drachman Hall Room A114

 

11:00 - 12:20

Technical Session 3 (hybrid)

Chair-person: M. Velez-Reyes

 

 

 

 

 

Drachman Hall Room A114

In-person

 

11:00 – 11:20

S. Collman. Post irradiation colorimeter analysis of vacuum packaged materials

11:20 – 11:40

C1C B. Eastman. Polarization signatures of a DirecTV cluster (student talk)

Virtual

11:40 – 12:00

C1C T. Reed and C1C M. Parrish. Spectral calibration of and spectral signatures of GEO satellites using the Falcon Telescope Network (student talk)

Virtual

12:00 – 12:20

C1C A. Masters. Analysis of photometric signatures of DTV-10 collected over 8 years (student talk)

Virtual

12:20 – 13:35

Lunch (provided by University of Arizona)

Drachman Hall Room A116

 

13:35 – 15:15

Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab Tour  (in-person only)

Start walking to Mirror Lab at 13:35. Presentation starts promptly at 13:55.

Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab

 

Friday, March 11th, 2022 

 

Time (MST)

Activity

Location

Comments

09:00 – 10:30

Workshop on  Lab Spectroscopy (in-person only)

R. Hoffmann and N. Pearson

Kuiper Space Sciences Building

Room 243

In-person

10:30 – 11:00

Break (and walk to Drachman Hall)

Drachman Hall

Room A114

 

11:00 – 11:45

Technical Session 4 (in-person)

Chair-person: R. Hoffmann

 

 

 

Drachman Hall

Room A114

In-person

 

11:00 – 11:20

M. Velez-Reyes. Hyperspectral Unmixing for Extracting Composition of Unresolved Space Objects

11:20 - 11:40

G. Halferty. Photometric Characterization of Starlink Satellites

(student talk)

11:45 – 13:15

Lunch (provided by University of Arizona)

Drachman Hall Room A116

In-person

13:30 – 14:15

Plenary Session

Introduction by R. Hoffmann

J. Mozer. Title: Preparing for the
United
States Space Force After Next

 

 

Drachman Hall

Room A114

Virtual

14:15 – 14:30

Closing Remarks

Drachman Hall

Room A114

In-person

Saturday, March 12th, 2022 

Time (MST)

Activity

Location

Comments

All day

 

Meet at 8:00 a.m. sharp

LBT Observatory tour (in-person only)

Find more info on the LBT Tour Info page

~ 3 hrs one-way drive

  • Meet in parking lot south of Drachman Hall at 8:00 a.m. sharp!
  • We will caravan there to make sure we all arrive at the same time.
  • Pack a lunch and plenty of water for the long day.
  • The LBT tour is over 10,000 ft. Bring warm clothes and be aware of the symptoms of altitude sickness (link to CDC page here)
  • Hydrate the night before and consider bringing pain killers for the altitude

Large Binocular Telescope

 

Mount Graham International Observatory, 1480 AZ-366, Safford, AZ 85546

Things to bring:

Lots of water

Packed lunch

Warm jacket

Hat & gloves

Painkillers