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2025

March 19, 2025

LEARNing about SNOOPI
Dr. Manuel Vega
SNOOPI Systems Engineer and Operations Lead
NASA GSFC

LEARNing about R5 
Sam Pedrotty
R5 Project Manager
NASA JSC

LEARNing about AEPEX
Dr. Robert Marshall
AEPEX PI
University of Colorado Boulder

January 22, 2025

LEARNing about SunRISE
Cate Heneghan
SunRISE Project Systems Engineer
NASA JPL

LEARNing about BurstCube
Sean Semper
BurstCube Mission Systems Engineer
NASA GSFC

LEARNing about ACS3
Keats Wilkie
ACS3 Principal investigator
NASA LaRC

2024

September 24-25, 2024

In-Person LEARN Forum Presentations

May 22, 2024

LEARNing about CIRBE
Dr. Xinlin Li
CIRBE Principal Investigator
LASP / University of Colorado

LEARNing about PY4
Dr. Jan Stupl
PY4 Project Engineer
NASA Ames Research Center

LEARNing about Lunar Flashlight
Dr. Philippe Adell
Lunar Flashlight Project Manager
NASA JPL

March 27, 2024

LEARNing about LLITED
Dr. Rebecca Bishop
LLITED Principal Investigator
The Aerospace Corporation


LEARNing about CAPSTONE
Elwood Agasid
CAPSTONE Project Manager
NASA Ames Research Center


LEARNing about INSPIRESat-1/MinXSS-3
Dr. Amal Chandran
InspireSat-1 Principal Investigator
LASP / University of Colorado
Dr. Thomas Woods,
MinXSS-3 Principal Investigator
LASP / University of Colorado

January 24, 2024

Annual In-Person LEARN Forum Outbrief
Florence Tan
Deputy Chief Technologist
NASA Science Mission Directorate

LEARNing about TBIRD
Beth Keer
TBIRD Mission Manager
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2023

October 11-12, 2023

In-Person LEARN Forum Presentations

June 28, 2023

LEARNing about SPARCS
Dr. Evgenya Shkolnik
Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University

LEARNing about petitSat
Dr. Jonathon Smith
Research Scientist, Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

May 3, 2023

LEARNing about Safety and Mission Assurance for Highly Constrained Projects
Jesse Leitner
Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

February 22, 2023

Introduction
Luis H. Santos Soto
Chief Engineer
Small Satellite Project Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

What we LEARNed from LEARN
Florence Tan
Chair, Small Spacecraft Coordination Group
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters

LEARNing about CuSP
Don E. George
Staff Scientist
Heliophysics Section, Department of Space Research
Space Science Division
Southwest Research Institute

LEARNing about BioSentinel
Sergio Santa Maria
Lead Scientist, BioSentinel Mission
NASA Ames Research Center


2022

October 25-26, 2022

In-Person LEARN Forum Presentations

July 27, 2022

Introduction
John D. Hudeck Jr.
Deputy Chief, Small Satellite and Special Projects Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility

Introduction to the LEARN Forum Online Community Tool
Robbie Robertson, PhD 
CEO, Co-founder | Sedaro 


LEARNing about CUTE
Dr. Kevin France
Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado

LEARNing about DAILI
Dr. James H. Hecht
Senior Scientist
The Aerospace Corporation

LEARNing about STF-1
Matthew D. Grubb
Sr. Systems Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Independent Verification and Validation

May 25, 2022

Introduction
Luis H. Santos
Chief Engineer, Small Satellite Project Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

LEARNing about HaloSat
Philip Kaaret
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa

LEARNing about LunaH-Map
Craig Hardgrove
Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University

LEARNing about Lunar IceCube
Benjamin K. Malphrus
Professor of Space Science
Morehead State University


March 23, 2022

NASA Headquarters Introduction
Florence Tan
Deputy Chief Technologist, Science Mission Directorate 
Chair, Small Spacecraft Coordination Group
NASA Headquarters

LEARNing about GTOSat
Lauren Blum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado Boulder


LEARNing about PACE
Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.
Project Manager, Payload Accelerator for CubeSat Endeavors
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
NASA Ames Research Center

LEARNing about RainCube
Shannon Statham Ph.D.
Supervisor, Environmental Dynamics Test Group  
Project Manager, Radar in a CubeSat
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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