session 4
Strategies for Rapid Implementation of Interstellar Missions: Precursors and Beyond
- type
oral
- Description
Knowledge about space beyond our solar system and between the stars—that is interstellar space —is lacking data. Even as IBEX, NASA’s Interstellar Background Explorer, studies the edge of our solar system, it still is confined to earth orbit. Arguably, some of the most compelling data to understand the universe we live in will come from sampling the actual environment beyond our solar system as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are on the threshold of doing. In the 36 years since the Voyager probes’ launches, significant advances in materials science, analytical chemistry, information technologies, imaging capabilities, communications and propulsion systems have been made. The recently released IAA study: “Key Technologies to Enable Near-Term Interstellar Scientific Precursor Missions” along with significant initiatives like the DARPA seed-funded 100 Year Starship and the Breakthrough Starshot project, signal the need, readiness and benefits to aggressively undertaking interstellar space missions. This session seeks to define specific strategies and key enabling steps to implement interstellar precursor missions within the next 10-15 years. Suggestions for defined projects, payloads, teams, spacecraft and mission profiles that leverage existing technological capacities, yet will yield probes that generate new information about deep space, rapidly exit the solar system and which can be launched before 2040 are sought.
- Date
2018-10-05
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Co-Chair: Dr. Mae Jemison, 100 Year Starship, United States;
Co-Chair: Prof. Giancarlo Genta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
Rapporteur: Mrs. Emeline De Antonio, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | 10 | confirmed | Prof.Dr. Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber | University of Kiel | Germany | ||
2 | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Ralph L. McNutt, Jr. | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | United States | ||
3 | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Claudius Gros | University of Frankfurt am Main | Germany | ||
4 | Laser-powered Electric Propulsion for Interstellar Precursor Missions | 10 | withdrawn | Ms. Ana Cristina Baltazar Garduño | International Space University (ISU) | France | |
5 | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Giancarlo Genta | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | ||
6 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Zachary Burkhardt | International Space University (ISU) | United States | ||
7 | Using Graphene Interstellar Solar Photon Sails: Sensitivity Studies for Pico-Probes and Arks | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Gregory Matloff | New York City College of Technology | United States | |
8 | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Ugur Guven | UN CSSTEAP | United States | ||
9 | Dynamic analysis of space tether system with sliding bead-capsule for payload delivery | 10 | confirmed | Prof. Vladimir S. Aslanov | Samara National Research University (Samara University) | Russian Federation | |
10 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Atsuya TAKESHITA | CABINET PLASSERAUD | France | ||
11 | Multi-Tethered Maneuvers for a Spacecraft Passing Near the Moon | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Antonio Fernando Bertachini Almeida Prado | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) | Brazil | |
12 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Charles E. Cockrell Jr. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | United States | ||
13 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Josh Lalonde | International Space University | Canada | ||
14 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Josh Lalonde | International Space University | Canada |