Onboard AI at Scale: From Proof of Concept to Constellation Integration

Eric Anderson is President of And One Technologies and a startup investor, director and advisor across multiple business areas. He emphasizes delivery of data and services via new technologies, channels and business models including facilitating government access and use of emerging commercial space products and services. Eric contributed to dozens of space systems, missions and programs as Chief Technologist for Space at Moog, at CSA Engineering, where he served several years as President, and at JPL. He earned degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.

Stewart Bain is CEO and founder of NorthStar Earth & Space. He recognizes the need for a lasting space economy and the importance that big data analytics, machine learning, and AI plays in the security & safety of the space environment.

Stewart combines a unique set of technical and business intelligence to create & commercialize disruptive technologies for aero and space applications from large scale hardware and specialized systems to sophisticated algorithms and products for advanced analytics and big data services.

At NorthStar, Stewart has focused on the benefits of a system of systems approach that combines complex hardware systems with machine learning systems using data driven algorithms to deliver high quality commercial services to precisely monitor activity in space. This is achieved with a patented Concept of Operations (CONOPS) that sets NorthStar apart as a leader in satellite image processing and big data analytics to provide a meaningful and reliable commercial contribution to space domain awareness.

Stewart leverages over thirty years of technical and business aerospace experience. Stewart contributed to the design of the coarse pointing mechanism for the original Artemis SILEX demonstration, the first in-orbit Optical Intersatellite Link system for spacecraft. Stewart led engineering design, integration, and test teams for the breakthrough 15m RadarSat 1 (passive SAR) and 2 antennas (active SAR) and deployment systems as well as the touch & control sensitivity systems for robotic arms and the in-orbit replaceable power conditioner systems for the International Space Station (ISS). He designed and delivered numerous optical systems for various space science applications that monitored the aurora borealis and the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

In his pivot to business development, Stewart established a space optics systems centre of excellence at CAL Corporation (now Honeywell) that provided breakthrough commercial Star Tracker Attitude and Orbit Control System products for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) spacecraft. Stewart led an international collaboration between NASA Langley and UBE Industries of Japan and was recognized with a NASA R&D 100 award for his distinguished contributions to the advancement of high temperature polyimide composite systems for dual-use aircraft applications.

Stewart is a founding member of the Board of Space Canada and has previously served as the President of the Board Advisory Committee of the AQA (Quebec Aerospace Association). Stewart has an MBA from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a Master of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa.