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Final Assembly and Testing of the Ex-Alta 2, AuroraSat, and YukonSat CubeSats

The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈSat Cleanroom: Design, Life Cycle, and Lessons Learned

Stratospheric X-Ray Radiation Measurement from a High Altitude Balloon

Assembling Life: How Can Life Begin on Earth and Other Habitable Planets?

Breaking the ice on alien life - how permafrost microbiology can help us defrost the potential for life on icy moons and planets

Anemochory and the Origins of Life: a study of aerosol to vesicle transformation

Using Shock Metamorphism in Lunar Meteorites to find their Source Craters

Northwest Africa 14340: Petrological Characterization and Shock Metamorphism of a Lunar Regolith Breccia

The El Ali Meteorite: Ancient History and New Minerals

Kephri project - mining astroid Bennu

The James Webb Space Telescope: Some Key Moments in its History

Robert Smith, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—a joint enterprise of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency—is the most complex and in some ways the most powerful telescope ever built. It's history—which includes a near-death experience at the hands of a U.S. congressional committee in 2011 when there was an effort to kill the project—raises a range of important issues, as well as lessons for the future of space astronomy. In this talk, Dr Robert W. Smith will discuss several key moments in the history of the JWST. 

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Ryan Tan
Colby Gauthier

Safe, dark, clean use of orbit: Guidelines I wish Starlink and other satcons would follow

Samantha Lawler, University of Regina.

Starlink has launched thousands of communication satellites in the past 3 years, and already has permission to launch and operate tens of thousands more. Several other companies have similar scale megaconstellation plans, with the goal of providing for-profit satellite internet access to those who can afford it. Current satellite deployment and operation plans ignore many externalities: the globally-visible light pollution from these satellites causes serious disruption to research astronomy and to all stargazers worldwide, satellites contribute to significant atmospheric pollution, both on launch and re-entry, contribute to diffuse sky emission, and drastically increase the very real threat of Kessler Syndrome, which could render Low Earth Orbit unusable for decades. This talk will focus on regulations and best practices that satellite operators should be using to keep Low Earth Orbit safe and functional for future generations.

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