Recent Results on Global Exploration Strategy and Future Lunar and Interplanetary Missions
- Paper number
IAC-07-P.E.5.01
- Author
Prof. Bernard Foing, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Year
2007
- Abstract
These are exciting times for scientific discovery and exploration with lunar and planetary missions. Space agencies will provide an update on their upcoming missions, and present their plans for the next decade. For the Moon and Mars, fleets of orbiters, landers, rovers will advance science and reconnaissance, preparing for the next steps of robotic and human exploration. There are still fundamental questions and potential discoveries about our whole solar system: origin, evolution and diversity. Deep space probes will be sent towards inner planets, small bodies, giant planets and their moons, and beyond.
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