Plenaries

GSAW 2025 Plenary Sessions

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Tuesday, February 25

Session 2: Advanced Ground
Chair: Andrea Martinez, The Aerospace Corporation
Galileo: Upgrading One of the Most Complex Ground Segments Without Impacting Four Billion Users
Sven Richter, Sonia Toribio, Miguel Manteiga, Anas Tajdine, and Vincent Borrel, European Space Agency
Towards Service based Operations
Anthony Walsh, Mauro Pecchioli, James Eggleston, Juan Piñeiro, Michael Hawkshaw; Klara Widegard, European Space Agency
NOAA Communications Scheduling is EASI (Enterprise Automated Scheduling Implementation)
Neil K Dhingra, Ella Herz, Katherine Cramer, Auria Space
 Session 3: Automation Efficiency
Chair: Brodie Wallace, The Aerospace Corporation
Artificial Intelligence for mission operations automation roadmap: the European Space Operations Centre updates and vision
Gabriele De Canio, European Space Agency
Optimizing User effectiveness in future European Missions
Michael Morgan, Telespazio Germany
MOC Automation with GMSEC and the Generic Extendable Message Utility (GEMU)
Chris Hoffman, Tim Stack, Alex Baret, Zach Taylor, David Pruitt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center GMSEC team (MCSG Technologies, Inc.)
Parallel Sessions – Track 1
Session 5: Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics
Chair: Chris Wallisch, The Aerospace Corporation
Data-X: Pioneering the Future of Data in Mission Operation
Evridiki Ntagiou, European Space Agency
Continual Learning for On-Ground Satellite Health Monitoring
Rudy Semola, Gabriele De Canio, University of Pisa & European Space Agency
Challenges of Space Data Digital Economy
Amaya Atencia, Luis Gonzalez Casillas, GMV Space Systems
Session 6: Anomaly Detection
Chair: Alexandra Hale, The Aerospace Corporation
Maximizing Operator Impact: Leveraging Machine Learning to Improve Trending Analysis for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
Shannon Bull, Andre Williams, William Stanton, James Clapsadle, Christopher Riley, NASA
Implementation and Feasibility of Using AI/ML Methods for Satellite Anomaly Detection, Diagnostics, and Resolution
Justin Gronert, Raad A. Saleh, NOAA JPSS, NESDIS
Model-based Health Analysis for Streamlined Operations
Ksenia Kolcio, Okean Solutions, Inc
Session 7: Mission Data Processing
Chair: Judy Kerner, The Aerospace Corporation
A Stepwise Approach to Evolve the European Galileo Ground Segment towards Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Steven Bouchired, Alexandre Ballereau, Artemio Castillo, Sonia Toribio, Miguel Manteiga, Antonio Pineda Cabello, European Space Agency & EU Space Program Agency
Ground System Real-time Image Processing of DRACO Observations for the DART Mission
Video
Patricia Harrington-Duff, David Carl, Jonathan Labin, Michael Malinowski, Andrew Smith, Daniel Wilson, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
Bridging the Void: Next Gen CDS for Space Systems
Jordan Scott, Parsons Government Services, Inc
Parallel Sessions – Track 2
Session 8: Cloud and Virtualization
Chair: Denny Ly, The Aerospace Corporation
New needs in Ground Segment, GMV tools for GSaaS
Mercedes Sánchez Manzano; Adrián Pérez González, GMV Aerospace and Defence
Reducing the Maritime Domain Awareness Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA) Loop: Applications of Ground Segment as a Service and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Rapid Earth Observation
Kristian Knudtzon, Austin Cooner, Karstein Ringjord, KSAT AS
Enterprise Engineering to Simplify External System Integration
Ronak Patel, The Aerospace Corporation
Session 9: Communications
Chair: Anil Agrawal, The Aerospace Corporation
Optical Ground Stations & Quantum Advancements in Timing and Encryption in Contested and Congested Environments
David Mitlyng, Joseph Campagna, Xairos
NESDIS Antennas as a Service (NAaaS) An Enterprise Common Service Paradigm Shift
Kenneth Watts, Greg Johnson, NOAA/NESDIS/OCS
Methods of Detecting Electromagnetic Interference in Passive Radio Frequency Data
Harris Mohamed, Bruno Pinos, Kratos Defense
Session 10: Modeling & Simulations (M&S)
Chair: Don Sather, The Aerospace Corporation
Enhancing Spacecraft Operations with Digital Twins Solutions
Federico Antonello, Klara Widegård, Katarzyna Cichecka, European Space Agency
Flexible and Extensible Drift Monitoring in Machine Learning Systems
Dr. Jeffery Hansen, Lena Pons,Gabriel A Moreno, Lihan Zhan, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
Infrastructure for Automated Management of Spacecraft Digital Twins and Enhancing Simulator Fidelity with ML
Maciej Prokopczyk, David Del Val Moncholí, GMV Innovating Solutions

Wednesday, February 26

Session 12: Trusted Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Chair: Brook Cavell, The Aerospace Corporation
Trusted Autonomy: A Survey of Current Methods and Approaches
Pamela Wood, The Aerospace Corporation
Lessons Learned in Implementing DoD Space-based Agile/DevSecOps Programs
Michael Orosz, Jacob Hempen, John M. Turner, Brian Duffy, Craig Charlton, University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute
Shift Left with Generative AI: Automating Library Replacement
Ipek Ozkaya, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
Session 13: Large Language Models & Retrieval Augmented Generation (LLMs & RAG)
Chair: Antonio Sanders, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology
Using Machine Learning and Industry Collaboration to Predict Space Weather. Part II – The Computation and Data Management Challenge
Samuel Morgan, Google
A Generative AI-Powered Framework for Spacecraft Risk Management—A Pilot Project with the Aerospace Corporation and University of Southern California (USC)
Alefiya Hussain, University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute
AI Chatbot for Assisting in Unified Data Library Data Discovery and Navigation
Michael Polonio, Juliana Chew, The Aerospace Corporation

Thursday, February 27

Session 18: Summary Session
Working Group Outbriefs
    1. Advancing Space Capabilities for Users: AI Accelerating Development to Deployment (D2D)
      Lead: Lori Gordon, Ron Birk, The Aerospace Corporation
    2. The Prudent Application of Automation Techniques, including AI/ML, in Ground Systems
      Lead: Donald Sather, The Aerospace Corporation
    3. Cloud Computing and Big Data Technologies for Ground System
      Lead: Ramesh Rangachar, The Aerospace Corporation
    4. Readying Data for AI/ML through Ontologies, Ontology Standards, and Best Practices
      Lead: David Limbaugh, Ph. D, National Center for Ontological Research, John Beverley, Ph. D University of Buffalo, and Mark Jensen, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
    5. Leaping into the Future: How Innovations and Technological Advances will Enable Economically sustainable Next Generation Ground and Flight System Architectures
      Leads: Raad Saleh, NOAA, Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA, and, Dr. Hamid Akbarian, NASA
    6. Tailoring Ground Software Standards Towards Automation and Augmentation
      Leads: Jesus Rodriguez, The Aerospace Corporation
    7. Software Supply Chain Risk Management
      Leads: Alexander Wright, USAF, and, Michael Williams, The Aerospace Corporation
Workshop Summary
Alexandra Hale, The Aerospace Corporation
Closing Remarks
Supannika Mobasser, GSAW 2025 Co-Chair, The Aerospace Corporation
End of General Workshop