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    Title

    Hitchhiking to the Moon

    type

    oral

    Description

    Based on the significant number of robotic lunar missions of the last decade, a dramatically increased interest in exploration of the Moon for the purpose of developing a permanent human and robotic presence, both for science and space exploration objectives can be expected for the next decades. This renewed interest is broad and international, involving space agencies from the USA, Europe, China, India, Japan, Russia, Germany, UK, and others. Efforts like NASA Lunar Science Institute's (NLSI) rapidly growing global network of affiliates - academic and research institutions who each act as nodes within an existing network of own partners - create demands for additional payload and flight opportunities, particularly from countries who just started their involvement in lunar exploration and science. In the future, it is expected that there will be more opportunities for ride-sharing or secondary or tertiary payload opportunities to be flown to the Moon, even as part of commercial enterprises like Google Lunar X-PRIZE missions. Examples from recent years are ESA's SMART-1 mission launched as a co-passenger opportunity from GTO, ISRO’s Chandrayaan spacecraft offering its platform as an opportunity to fly international instruments to the Moon or NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft providing an opportunity for a secondary payload to the Moon, in the form of the LCROSS lunar impactor mission. This session provides a forum for the exchange of ideas for such small payloads to be demonstrated at the Moon, by ‘Hitch-hiking a ride’ to the Moon. Examples of such payloads or missions include but are not limited to: micro-spacecraft orbiters, CubeSats, small probes, penetrators, micro-landers, hard landers, micro-rovers, secondary payload surface science instruments, distributed network landers, and many more. The focus of this session is on new mission concepts, technology readiness and ride-sharing requirements.

    Date

    2011-10-07

    Time

    09:00

    Room

    TS-10

    IPC members
    • Chairman: Dr. Leon Alkalai, Mandala Space Ventures, United States;

    • Chairman: Prof. Rene Laufer, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden;

    • Rapporteur: Dr. Adam Baker, Rocket Engineering Ltd., United Kingdom;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    The Google Lunar X PRIZE

    15

    confirmed

    Ms. Nicole Jordan

    X PRIZE Foundation

    United States

    2

    AMALIA mission: the Italian answer to the Google Lunar X Prize challenge

    15

    no-show

    Prof. Michèle Lavagna

    Politecnico di Milano

    Italy

    3

    Team Rocket City Space Pioneers – An Industrial Approach to the Google Lunar X Prize Competition

    15

    withdrawn

    Mr. Stephen Cook

    United States

    4

    Hitchhiking to the Moon: The European Student Moon Orbiter Mission

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. Susan Jason

    Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)

    United Kingdom

    5

    Contingency and Recovery Options for the European Student Moon Orbiter

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Willem van der Weg

    University of Strathclyde

    United Kingdom

    6

    Applications of non-linear programming for Lunar Mission BW-1 trajectory optimisation to further missions

    15

    withdrawn

    Dr. Rogan Shimmin

    International Space University (ISU)

    United States

    7

    Introducing MINAS ITHIL: an Italian micro and nanosatellites mission to the Moon

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. Fabrizio Piergentili

    University of Rome "La Sapienza"

    Italy

    8

    Jules Verne: an academy developed nanospacecraft lunar orbiter

    15

    no-show

    Prof. Lorenzo Zago

    Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences - HEIG-VD

    Switzerland

    9

    Lunette as a Family of Small Lunar Landers

    15

    no-show

    Mr. John Elliott

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    United States

    10

    ARMADILLO – A Demonstration for a Cis-Lunar Exploration Mission to the Kordylewski Clouds

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. Rene Laufer

    Baylor University

    United States

    11

    IRIS: Student Collaboration Project for the Proposed MoonRise Sample Return Mission

    15

    no-show

    Dr. Leon Alkalai

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    United States

    12

    The proposal of autonomous movement and exploring on the Moon surface by cooperation of buddy rover using image processing

    15

    no-show

    Prof. Kiyohiko Hattori

    University of Electro-Communications

    Japan

    13

    TINY TIME TRAVELERS: A DISTRIBUTED MICRO-ARCHIVE ON THE MOON

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. James Burke

    The Planetary Society

    United States