session 3A

Title: Mars Exploration – missions current and future
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: 2015-10-14
Time: 09:45
Room: Schwartz Hall (ICC, lower level)

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Vincenzo Giorgio, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;
Co-Chair: 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;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	09:45	An Overview of the current status of NASA’s 2016 InSight Mission to Mars	15'	confirmed	Dr. Ramon P. De Paula	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
2	10:00	EXOMARS 2016 MISSION EDL DEMONSTRATOR MODULE TECHNOLOGIES, SCIENCE OPPORTUNITY AND PLANETARY PROTECTION IMPLEMENTATION	15'	confirmed	Mr. Maurizio Capuano	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
3	10:15	Japan’s Mars Rover Mission for EDL Demonstration and Life Search	15'	confirmed	Dr. Kazuhisa FUJITA	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
5	10:30	THE ESA MARS ROBOTIC EXPLORATION PREPARATION PROGRAM: STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES	15'	confirmed	Mr. Denis REBUFFAT	ESA	The Netherlands
6	10:45	Possible Mars Exploration Architectures for the 2020’s	15'	withdrawn	Mr. Steve Matousek	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
7	11:00	The Role of Mars Analogue environments on Earth in the interpretation of data from the past, present and future missions	15'	confirmed	Prof. Enrico Flamini	Italian Space Agency (ASI)	Italy
8	11:15	Astrobiology and geochemistry from Mars terrestrial analogues: field measurements and analysis of returned samples	15'	confirmed	Prof. Bernard Foing	European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)	The Netherlands
9	11:30	Photogeological study of Mars features using Mars Color Camera onboard Mars Orbiter Mission and other data.	15'	confirmed	Mrs. Prabhjot Kaur	Space Applications Centre (ISRO)	India
10	11:45	Phootprint: Phobos Sample Return Mission	15'	withdrawn	Dr. Maria Antonietta Perino	Thales Alenia Space Italia	Italy
11	12:00	orbit design for the martian moon impact mission	15'	confirmed	Mr. Lei Lan	Tsinghua University	China
12	12:15	ARMONIA: feasibility study on aerobots in martian atmosphere to enhance science return	15'	no-show	Prof. Michèle Lavagna	Politecnico di Milano	Italy

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