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session 3.A

Title: Mars Exploration - Part 1
Description: The planet Mars is being explored now and in the coming years with multiple robotic missions from a variety of nations. This Session will cover current results from ongoing Mars missions and the designs for proposed Mars missions including expected experiments. Papers on any aspects of the search for evidence of extant or extinct Martian life, and forward and backward contamination are particularly welcome.
Date: 2008-10-01
Time: 09:30
Room: Forth

IPC members

Chairman: Mr. Vincenzo Giorgio, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;
Chairman: Dr. Marc D. Rayman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Eduardo W. Bergamini, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil;
Rapporteur: Mr. Walter Faulconer, United States;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Mission and Navigation Design for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory Mission	presentation	Dr. Louis A. D'Amario	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
3	exomars mission and spacecraft design	presentation	Mr. Carlo Cassi	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
4	Initial results from the Canadian MET weather station on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission	presentation	Dr. Victoria Hipkin	Canadian Space Agency	Canada
5	Phoenix – The First Mars Scout Mission	presentation	Mr. Robert Shotwell	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
6	Mars-Next - A Mars Sample Return precursor mission	presentation	Dr. Francesco Mura	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
7	ExoMars: Recent Developments of the "Sample Preparation and Handling System" and the Accommodations and Operations Concept of the Humboldt Payload"	presentation	Dr. Stephan Ulamec	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
8	Selecting and Combining Navigation and Locomotion “Breadboards” to complete an Integrated Mars Rover Prototype	presentation	Mr. Ian Renouf	Astrium UK	United Kingdom
9	Urey onboard Exomars: Searching for life on Mars	presentation	Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund	Space Policy Institute, George Washington University	United States
10	Calibrating the Martian Cratering Chronology: An In Situ Dating Mission	presentation	Dr. Jeffrey Plescia	The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
–	entry & descent system for the exomars mission	presentation	Dr. Patrick Arfi	Thales Alenia Space France	France
–	ExoMars: Recent Developments of the Sample Preparation and Handling System for ExoMars and the Geophysics and Environmental Package		Dr. Peter Hofmann	OHB System AG - Munich	Germany

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