session 4

Title: Small Bodies Missions and Technologies
Description: This session will present the missions and technological aspects related to the exploration of small bodies including a search for pre-biotic signatures.
Date: 2013-09-26
Time: 09:45
Room: 311A

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. Susan McKenna-Lawlor, Space Technology (Ireland) Ltd., Ireland;
Chairman: Dr. Stephan Ulamec, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Rapporteur: Dr. Marc D. Rayman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Norbert Frischauf, TU Graz, Austria;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Preparing Rosetta Re-activation	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Andrea Accomazzo	European Space Agency (ESA)	Germany
2		Landing preparations for the Rosetta Comet Lander, Philae	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Stephan Ulamec	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
3		Philae Landing Test at the landing and Mobility Test Facility (LAMA)	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Silvio Schröder	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
4		ESA MarcoPolo-R: The NEA sample return mission candidate to the M-Class Cosmic Vision program	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Remy Chalex	European Space Agency (ESA)	The Netherlands
5		Near-Earth Asteroid 341843 (2008 EV5), Target of ESA’s MarcoPolo-R Mission	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Michael Busch	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	United States
6		the final development stages of mascot, a small asteroid lander to accompany hayabusa-ii	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Christian Ziach	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
7		MicrOmega: a NIR hyperspectral microscope to characterize the composition of the Hayabusa 2 asteroid target	accepted	15'		Prof. Jean-Pierre Bibring		France
8		AIDA: Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Andy Cheng	The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
9		Relative Distance Estimation Between the Asteroid 4179 and Chang'E II Based On Spaceborne Opitcal Images	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Geshi Tang Dr.Yanlong Bu	National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aerospace Flight Dynamics, Beijing Aerospace Control Center(BACC),China	China
10		Dawn's Operations in Cruise from Vesta to Ceres	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Marc D. Rayman	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology	United States
11		DEM Simulation of Sampling Tool Mechanisms for Low Gravity Bodies	accepted	15'	confirmed	Mr. Riccardo Carta	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
12		a unique multi-comet mission opportunity for china in 2018	accepted	15'	confirmed	Dr. Robert Farquhar	Harbin Institute of Technology	United States
–		Goldstone/VLA Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 4179 Toutatis in 2012	merged with 18374			Dr. Michael Busch	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	United States
–		MarcoPolo-R: Near Earth Asteroid Sample Return Mission in ESA assessment study phase	merged with 18158			Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund	Space Policy Institute, George Washington University	United States