2022 Programme

Welcome Address

Join us for Space-Comm Expo 2022's Welcome Address with Kevin Craven, hosted by Dallas Campbell.

Keynote Address

Panel: The National Space Strategy and its Implementation

This session aims to understand the inspiration behind the space strategy and future goals.

Space-Rated Active Optical Cables - Rugged solutions to meet the future of space exploration

The presentation covers ground-breaking technology of space-rated optical fibre with high date rates, light weight and extended reach.

Seminar TBC by Parsons

Seminar TBC by Airbus

Low profile solutions for flat space interconnect

Axon’ outlines a range of innovative Flexible Flat Cable and low profile connector solutions for space constrained applications.

To IP and beyond: Don’t let your great idea get lost in space…

Venner Shipley’s, Jonathan Hewett will explain how intellectual property rights can be used effectively in the space sector.

Panel: The UK as a launch nation

This session will focus on exploring the potential of the UK and its ambitions for the small satellite launch industry.

NanoAvionics Modular Microsatellite platforms MP42

Armando will present the company‘s flagship products – a range of MP42 modular microsatellite platforms for payloads up to 145 kg in mass.

Developing industry partnerships for effective intelligence sharing and collaboration on future space missions

Della will share her perspectives on how industry can play a pivotal and enabling role, leveraging disruptive technologies, data and expertise to help solve complex geospatial challenges.

Innovating and integrating the digital fabric of space

This session will focus on exploring the potential of the UK and its ambitions for the small satellite launch industry.

Securing Space Missions

As space is now a key target for cyberattacks, this session will discuss the technologies and approaches used to secure space missions.

Dual-use Satellite System Capabilities and Future Space Sector Trends

This session will provide a review of the current state-of-the-art capabilities in the space sector, examining how satellites can address defence and security applications with the same technologies currently deployed in the civil and commercial markets.

Access to space is getting cheaper, can we make space safety affordable too?

Come join a lively discussion on technology enablers that will help us take steps towards affordable space safety and sustainability. From ground to aircraft, to UAV and into space: technologies that will help us take steps towards affordable space safety and sustainability.

Panel: Processing at the extreme edge, how experiments currently on board the ISS are helping shape the mission to Mars and the eventual colonisation of the Red Planet

This session will show how work started in 2014, and continuing today, with NASA on computing in space has led to the development of commercial off the shelf based computers that process data in space and only send back relevant information.

Panel: Bringing connectivity to the Moon

This session aims to give us a peek at the latest developments underway in lunar telecommunications.

Space Sustainability: Risk Factors and how the Space Industry is Driving Change

Civil Space Surveillance for Space Sustainability

It is time for civil space to lead on SST to ensure the long term sustainability of space.

Panel: The Power of Prediction - how space assets can help predict weather and space weather events

This panel will discuss the essential benefits the world has seen as a result of using space for weather prediction.

Facing New Space Technology Challenges

Leading space semiconductor supplier, Microchip present scalable solutions and use cases to answer New Space challenges.

Panel: The future of ‘Earth to Earth’ Space Travel: Challenges and Prospects

This session aims to bring the key stakeholders in the space transportation ecosystem to discuss the current state of development and what the future holds.

Closing Remarks

Closing Address

Welcome Address

Opening Keynote Address

Power to Explore our Universe

Join us to hear how space nuclear technology can provide the power to explore our universe, transform the new space economy and how the UK can be at the heart of this exciting new future.

Ministerial Keynote Address: UK’s Defence Space Strategy

This session highlights the significance of the Defence Space Strategy and how it supports the National Space Strategy in integrating military and civil space policies.

Panel: Protecting, defending and upholding global space security

This session will demonstrate how to develop space workforce and capabilities to ensure safety in space.

SpaceLogistics: Life Extension and Resiliency in Geostationary Orbit

The proven successes of MEV-1 and 2 and how SpaceLogistics is going to use the MRV and MEP to continue this in 2024.

Seminar TBC by Parsons

From Simple CubeSats to Sophisticated Microsat Missions – the (R)evolution of the Smallsat Industry?

Using market data and customer case studies, Edward F. Jamieson - European Govt. Programmes and Strategic Partnerships Lead at NanoAvionics, will share his insights on the evolution of smallsats, explaining how NanoAvionics is enabling the future of next-generation data services in LEO.

ICEYE SAR Satellite Rapidly Delivered - Take full control of your missions with the world's only High-performance SAR satellite system

Join us to hear how ICEYE now makes it possible for governments and organizations to purchase one or more of their own ICEYE satellites – rapidly delivered.

Seminar TBC by CGI

The Power of Partnerships

A ‘do-it alone’ approach is not necessarily the best strategy. Allen Antrobus (Airbus Defence and Space Ltd) and David Pile (Northrop Grumman) will discuss why collaboration and partnerships are fundamental to improving outcomes.

Panel: The role of commercial actors in driving space security

This session will show the importance of public-private partnerships to protect space and how collaboration with the private sector could support more robust space security.

Panel: The urgent need to cyber-secure global space assets

This panel will bring together global leaders to discuss how to protect space assets from cyber threats.

Panel: Ensuring safety and sustainability of space activities

This session focuses on the need for improving the safety of space operations and measures to be taken on a global scale.

Space Domain Awareness and the Protection of UK Geo Assets

This session, led by Raytheon UK, will look at the different ways in which space domain awareness can be used to protect UK assets in space

Innovate your spacecraft mission design and operations

Simulation is the key to improving space mission design and operations.

Panel: How is the space sector mitigating the effects of climate change?

This session will give insights on how space science can play a key role in understanding the process of climate change.

The Economic Development of Space for the Sustainable Development of Earth

We are about to enter an unprecedented era of infrastructure and economic development in space which can unlock institutional investment at scale on a 15-30 year growth hypothesis with generation shaping benefits on earth and in space.

Panel: Boosting the commercial space economy and sustainably building off-planet capabilities for a bold future

This session will uncover the potential benefits of in-space manufacturing and strategy to overcome the current barriers.