February Public Meeting | How to go from a satellite mission plan to a space business - a workshop with Dr Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics

This is the free monthly meeting of the Space Association of Australia - all welcome!

We'll be in the Function Room on the first floor of the Caulfield RSL. The venue is disabled friendly and includes a lift. Meals are available at reasonable prices. Ample car parking is available immediately behind the RSL or in St Georges Road.  Trams and trains run within 200 metres of the venue.

 The meeting will be streamed live and then made available on-demand via the Space Association's YouTube channel - SAA.TV.

How to go from a satellite mission plan to a space business - a workshop with Dr Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics

This month, we are breaking away from our usual meeting formula to bring you a truly fun, informative and interactive evening! Our guest speaker, Dr Jason Held of Saber Astronautics, will be a conducting a guided tour, and interactive workshop, using Saber's internationally renowned Predictive Ground Station Project (PIGI) software.

PIGI is a next-generation space mission control software that brings together the latest techniques in human factors, artificial intelligence, and dynamic 3D data visualization to make it easy for spacecraft operators to monitor, fly, and rapidly diagnose faults in spacecraft systems.

By special arrangement with Saber, attendees of the meeting will get a chance to use the software themselves!

So, what does PIGI do? Okay, so imagine you have spacecraft, a launch date, and a plan to grow. Now what? In this workshop you will learn how to use a bit of science and the PIGI to calculate the number of customers you can get for a mission. Changing orbits, ground terminal locations, and other space mission fundamentals can greatly affect how many customers you can get and what they can do. Jason will show us how to find out if the mission we plan generates income.

We will have a number of laptops available to use, so you can buddy up and get involved. And the winner gets a prize! 

About Dr Jason Held, Saber Astronautics
PhD, Aerospace and Mechatronics, 2008, University of Sydney
BSc, Computer Science, 1993, Virginia Military Institute

Saber Astronautics is a space engineering company based in Sydney and Colorado dedicated to researching cutting edge methods of spacecraft control.

Prior to founding Saber Astronautics, Dr Held was a US Army Major and Army Space Support Team leader for USSTRATCOM (formerly Space Command) and deployed internationally in support of military space missions. Dr Held was a lead instructor at the Interservice Space Fundamentals Course and a guest engineer at Army Space and Missile Command Battle Lab. He conducted flight software engineering for the Wide Field Camera 3 of the Hubble Space Telescope and testing for the International Space Station. He also conducted verification and validation testing for an invasive class II medical device currently in market. Dr Held was twice a guest instructor for the University of Stuttguart’s IRS Space Station Design Workshop and led a research expedition in the high Canadian Arctic. He also co-founded the Delta-V Spacehub Startup Accelerator. At the University of Sydney, he founded the space engineering laboratory, providing leadership for the university CubeSat project and Australia’s first premix rocket engine

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