Welcome at the LDE Space Day, a networking day for researchers of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities Space for Science & Society programme, in collaboration with NL Space Campus, ESA ESTEC and many other partners from the space industry. With a programme packed full with workshops and lots of opportunities to meet your peers, the LDE Space Day is the place to be for everyone in space research and industry.
Professionals, such as scientists, researchers, developers and representatives of the space industry as well as governmental organisations, are invited to join the LDE Space Day.
Discover Your Space, a career event for young professionals and students, organised by NVR, SpaceNed, NL Space Campus, and VSV ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, will take place in the evening. Both are located at the Auditorium, at the TU Delft campus.
Please register before November 21 to get your seat at the workshop session.
See you at the 2023 edition of LDE Space Day!
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Programme of the LDE Space Day
12:30 – 13:25 Registration and coffee
*13:30 – 15:00 Workshops sessions round 1 (See session descriptions below)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
*15:30 – 17:00 Workshops sessions round 2 (See session descriptions below)
17:00 – 18:30 Networking drinks with company stands
18:30-21:30 Discover your Space: The programme continues in the evening with the annual Discover Your Space networking event.
*Please find more information below about the workshops.
Workshop sessions round 1 (13:30-15:00)
1 | Planetary Sciences @LDE:
Join this session to learn more about the Planetary Sciences Research and Education activities at various faculties at Leiden and Delft. Meet fellow researchers and exchange on activities.
More information about this session will follow shortly
2 | Phi-lab: Accelerating transformational innovations
ESA has started the Phi-lab mission to accelerate innovation in technologies and capabilities with the potential to disrupt the Market. Following up with the success of the Phi-lab Frascati, there will be Phi-labNet programmes implemented in several member states as of 2024. The NL Space Campus will run the NL Phi-lab programme, to bring people, academia and companies together to stimulate innovation with the innovation pipeline and support for commercialization of cutting edge research.
Join this workshop session to learn about the plans and opportunities of NL Phi-lab programme. We look forward to hear your (ideas for) research proposals and discuss how academia, institutes and academia can be involved in the programme.
Session Lead: Raoul Voeten & Niels Eldering
Interesting for: researchers, engineers, scientists, entrepeneurs, companies, innovators
3 | Lost in Space... and Found by NLP: applications of Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models in the space field
Designing spacecraft requires a multidisciplinary approach, careful planning, and piles and piles of documents! Information is often scattered across various databases, saved in different formats, and the number of space missions is increasing fast. All these factors make interacting with language more and more important. In this panel we will discuss how we use recent advances in NLP, in particular LLMs, to accelerate the design of space missions, augment the capabilities of experts and map the field’s ecosystem!
This session is intended for researchers and professionals working on space missions with a curiosity about Natural Language Processing, as well as practitioners of AI and NLP
Interesting for: space project managers and system engineers, AI researchers and developers
4 | Solaris: Feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power - part 1
ESA is running the SOLARIS programme to study the feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power. While the technology has been proven, there are other questions that need to be answered. What is the environmental impact? What regulations do apply? Can and should this be commercial operated? Will it reduce the environmental impact compared to regular on Earth solar power?
In this Curiosity Series edition we will discuss and explore the various aspects of Space-Based Solar Power and determine what would needs to be investigated further.
Part 1 of the workshop will consist of:
- A presentation of the ESA Solaris project
- Status of the technology to beam energy to Earth and collect it
- What questions remain to be answered?
- Round the table discussion with:
- Introduction of the participants
- Identification of unknowns and questions
In part 2 of the session in the second round of the workshop the discussion will be picked up based on the unknowns and questions that we identified.
Session Lead: Michael Mallon & Alex Bush from ESA
Interesting for: space engineers, solar power experts, environmental experts, space law, space business, energy sector
Workshop sessions round 2 (15:30-17:00)
1 | Lunar Zebro and the Moonshots programme
The TU Delft Lunar Zebro team has developed simple micro Lunar Rovers ready and capable to swarm on the Moon, Mars but also on Earth.
In this session Moonshots, the scientific research programme for scientific experiments that will be performed with the Lunar Zebro, will be presented.
Join this session to learn more about the programme and share your ideas.
More detailed information about the session will follow soon.
Interesting for: space engineers, robotics engineers, scientists, planetary scientists, astronomers, AI experts, data analysts
2 | NL Moonshots24
Join our session to learn more about the NL Moonshots programme and how you can get involved.
More detailed information about the session will follow soon.
3 | Earth Observation for Humanitarian rights
The Leiden Delft Erasmus Universities Space for Science & Society Programme will host its first Space Thesis Lab; an interdisciplinary challenge for multiple Master thesis projects where besides working on your own thesis, you'll be working with students from other disciplines to answer the question: What are the technical, legal, and business implications of the use of Earth Observation applications for monitoring violations of humanitarian law?
Are you a Leiden Law, TU Delft Applied Geosciences or Erasmus University Rotterdam RSM business student and interested to learn more? Join our session.
Representatives from space industry and knowledge institutes who would like to know more about the thesis lab are also welcome.
Interesting for: Leiden Law students, TU Delft Applied Geosciences students, RSM students, organisations working with EO technology, organisations dealing with humanitarian issues
4 | Solaris: Feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power - part 2
ESA is running the SOLARIS programme to study the feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power. While the technology has been proven, there are other questions that need to be answered. What is the environmental impact? What regulations do apply? Can and should this be commercially operated? Will it reduce the environmental impact compared to regular on Earth solar power?
In this Curiosity Series edition we will discuss and explore the various aspects of space-based solar power and determine what would needs to be investigated further.
In part 2 of the session in the second round of the workshop we will pick up the discussion from part 1 and talk more about the unknowns and questions that we identified. You will be asked to provide your thoughts and views to define and propose research topics and studies that would be able to answer these questions so that we can define a forward plan for the feasibility study.
Session Lead: Michael Mallon & Alex Bush from ESA
Interesting for: space engineers, solar power experts, environmental experts, space law, space business, energy sector