Space Exploration Symposium 2023

November 23–24, 2023

University of Alberta

Telus World of Science Edmonton

This year we have sessions on the ethics of extraplanetary exploitation and the ongoing work to return humans and robots to the moon. Our keynote speakers are Prof. Valerie Oosterveld, Law, Western University and Prof. Gordon Osinski, Earth Sciences, Western University.

Note: Zoom video links to the symposium are available at the bottom of this page.

Schedule

Thursday, November 23

Location:

Room 3-36, H. M. Tory Building, University of Alberta

15:30

Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement

Chris Herd

ISSET Principal Director

15:40

The not so Distant Red Planet: Ethical Considerations for Mars and Future Martians

Nathan Dobell

Student member of SPEAR

16:00

The Moral Status of Extra Terrestrial Life

Steven J. Firth

PhD student, University of Helsinki

16:30

Ethics for Extraterrestrials

Jennifer Welchman

Professor and Chair, Philosophy Dept

17:00

Break

19:00

Mining the Moon: Legal and Ethical Implications

Prof. Valerie Oosterveld, Law, Western University.

Talk given as part of the BETA Dialogues Endowment for Space Science, Ethics, and Philosophy.

Cost: Free

Book Tickets

20:00

Roundtable discussion

Valerie Oosterveld	Professor, Law, Western University
Jennifer Welchman	Professor and Chair, Philosophy Dept
Travis Dumsday	Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University of Edmonton

20:45

Close

Friday, November 24

Location: Room 3-36, H. M. Tory Building, University of Alberta

14:00	Switchable radiative cooling (RC) and solar heating (SH) system for thermal management applications	Asad Asad	Department of Mechanical Engineering
14:15	Development and Design of Passive Cooling Technology Experimentation	Ezra Dese	Department of Mechanical Engineering
14:30	How to Build a Sounding Rocket Team	Colby Gauthier	STARR
14:45	CD-SAM: Expanding Sustainable Power	Crysta Madrio	Mission SpaceWalker
15:00	PEPPER-X: Payload for Energetic Particle Precipitation Education and Research - eXperiment.	Erik Halliwell	Space Physics
15:15	Developing the High Energy Particle Telescope for upcoming flights on a Sounding Rocket, a Micro-satellite mission and the Lunar Gateway	Anant Kumar	High Energy Particle Telescope
15:30	Break
15:45	Passive Space Debris Capture: mitigating the epidemic with novel adhesive technology	Nabiha Saghar	AlbertaSat
16:00	Ex-Alta 3: Characterizing ice and snow coverage in Canada from a student-led CubeSat platform	Priya Manavalan	AlbertaSat
16:15	Northern SPIRIT Operations	Nikhil Velagapudi and Hariharan Krishnan	AlbertaSat
16:30	Development of a Modular Sensor for Space-Inspired Analog Missions	Jana Gebara	Mission SpaceWalker
16:45	Open Source CubeSats: Unlocking Affordable Access to Space	Stefan Damkjar	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
17:00	End of Campus Talks.

Location: Telus World of Science Edmonton

18:30	Doors open
19:00	From Canada to the Moon – with Robots and Humans Prof. Gordon Osinski, Earth Sciences, Western University. Talk to be followed by the showing of the short movie Forward! To the Moon Telus World of Science Edmonton Cost: $10 Book Tickets