session 3A
- Title
Mars Exploration – Part 1
- type
oral
- 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
2012-10-03
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Chairman: Mr. Vincenzo Giorgio, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;
Chairman: Mr. Pierre W. Bousquet, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France;
Rapporteur: Mrs. Amalia Ercoli Finzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
Rapporteur: Ms. Cheryl L.B. Reed, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Richard A. Cook | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | United States | ||
3 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Carlo Cassi | Thales Alenia Space Italia | Italy | ||
4 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Maurizio Capuano | Thales Alenia Space Italia | Italy | ||
5 | 15' | no-show | Prof. Jianwen Hou | Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC) | China | ||
6 | 15' | no-show | Mr. Jeremy Straub | University of North Dakota | United States | ||
7 | MERLIN: Mars-Moon Exploration, Reconnaissance and Landed Investigation | 15' | confirmed | Ms. Cheryl Reed | The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | United States | |
8 | 15' | no-show | Mr. Varun Eknath | India | |||
9 | Fractionated Robotic Architectures for Planetary Surface Mobility Systems | 15' | confirmed | Ms. Farah Alibay | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | |
10 | DESIGN, FABRICATION AND TESTING OF A LYMAN ALPHA PHOTOMETER FOR D/H STUDIES OF MARS UPPER ATMOSPHERE | Poster | Mr. VISWANATHAN M | Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)-ISRO | India | ||
11 | Design Space Exploration of an Isotensoid Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Matthew Miller | School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | |
12 | Sensitivity analysis of virtual terrain accuracy for vision-based algorithms | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Róbert Marc | Czech Technical University In Prague (CTU) | Switzerland | |
13 | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Gurunadh Velidi | University of Petroleum and Energy Studies | India | ||
14 | THERMAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTATION ON MARS ROCK ANALOGS TO PLAN ROVER SAMPLING OPERATIONS | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Timothy Szwarc | Stanford University | United States | |
15 | Scattering of the dust storm of Mars and the attitude inversion of Mars detector | Poster | confirmed | Mr. He Hongfei | State Key-Lab of Electromagnetic Environment Research, Shanghai,China | China | |
16 | Navigation and Mapping Within the Constraints of a Mars Micro-rover | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Robert Hewitt | Faculty of Engineering, Queen's University | Canada | |
17 | Design and Experiments for a Mars Methane Analogue Mission Rover Operations | Poster | Dr. Ala' Qadi | Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University | Canada | ||
18 | Optimal control of spacecraft during the ascent of Mars’artificial satellite | Poster | confirmed | Dr. Gennady Raykunov | Joint Stock Company "Russian Space Systems" | Russian Federation | |
19 | Numerical modelling of the CO2-N2 hypersonic flow for simulations of Mars entry conditions | Poster | confirmed | Dr. Mario De Stefano Fumo | CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Centre | Italy | |
20 | Poster | Mr. Aurelien Pisseloup | EADS Astrium | France | |||
21 | Same beam interferometry for the analysis of the internal structure of celestial bodies | Poster | confirmed | Mr. Marco Gregnanin | Sapienza Università di Roma | Italy |