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    Title

    Mars Exploration – Science, Instruments and Technologies

    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 science, instruments and technologies for Mars missions including expected experiments. Papers on any aspects of the search for evidence or extinct Martian life, and forward and backward contamination are particularly welcome.

    Date

    2018-10-03

    Time

    14:45

    Room

    CCB Kaisen

    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

    DELIAN Arm Development and Test for Mars sample acquisition

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. Marco MOLINA

    Leonardo Spa

    Italy

    2

    Development of An Ultra-light Robotic Arm for Mars Exploration

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Chunxu Yu

    Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology

    China

    3

    Field & Laboratory Spectroscopy of Mars Analogue Samples: Support to Mars In-Situ and Sample Return Missions

    15

    Prof. Bernard Foing

    ESA/ESTEC, ILEWG & VU Amsterdam

    The Netherlands

    4

    Flight-Model Test Results of the Mechanism Suite in ESA‘s ExoMars Rover Analytical Laboratory Drawer

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Robert Paul

    OHB System AG

    Germany

    5

    SEIS on his way to Mars

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Gabriel Pont

    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

    France

    6

    Design Challenges of Deployable Aero-Decelerators for Mars Entry Vehicles

    15

    withdrawn

    Ms. Lisa Peacocke

    Imperial College London

    United Kingdom

    7

    End-to-End GNC Design, Test and Validation of Mars Pinpoint Landing with Supersonic Retropropulsion

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Tiago Hormigo

    Spin.Works

    Portugal

    8

    Calibration and preliminary tests of the Brine Observation Transition To Liquid Experiment on HABIT/Exomars 2020 for demonstration of liquid water stability on Mars

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Miracle Israel Nazarious

    Luleå University of Technology

    Sweden

    9

    Thermodynamics as tool to identify where and when to search for pure liquid water on Mars

    15

    confirmed

    Dr. Aaron H. Persad

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    United States

    10

    CNES rover Autonomous Navigation, application to ExoMars and potential for MSR fetch rover

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Pierre W. Bousquet

    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

    France

    11

    COMARS+ Instrumentation Package of the ExoMars Schiaparelli Lander and its Flight Performance

    15

    confirmed

    Prof.Dr. Ali Gülhan

    DLR (German Aerospace Center)

    Germany

    12

    Exploration of Mars through an Autonomous and Machine Learning enabled Constellation of Drones

    15

    confirmed

    Mr. Vipul Mani

    India