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session 6

Title: New Missions Enabled by New Propulsion Technology and Systems
Description: The session will explore concepts for new missions that can be enabled by specific advancements in propulsion and/or integration of various propulsion technologies and systems.
Date: 2019-10-23
Time: 14:45
Room: 143A

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Giorgio Saccoccia, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy;
Co-Chair: Prof. Sabrina Corpino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
Rapporteur: Dr. Elena Toson, T4i, Italy;
Rapporteur: Ms. Elizabeth Driscoll, Spaceflight, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	14:45	Air, carbon dioxide and water as oxidizers for metal-based fuels for aerospace propulsion and future space missions	15	withdrawn	Mr. ILYES GHEDJATTI	Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA)	China
2	15:00	Fitting a high total impulse electric propulsion system in a student CubeSat to compensate the atmospheric drag in low-earth orbit	15	confirmed	Mr. Timothée Darcet	Ecole Polytechnique	France
3	15:15	Inductive Plasma Thruster (IPT) design for an Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion System (ABEP)	15	confirmed	Mr. Francesco Romano	Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart	Germany
4	15:30	Impact of propulsion system characteristics on the potential for cost reduction of earth observation missions at very low altitudes	15	confirmed	Dr. Francesco Barato	University of Padova - DII/CISAS	Italy
5	15:45	GEO telecommunication satellite: new opportunities enabled by a 20kW class Hall thruster	15	confirmed	Mr. Christopher Andrea Paissoni	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
6	16:00	3U Nanosatellite with Electric Propulsion as a Moon Probe for a Flyby Mission	15	confirmed	Mr. Derik Bhardwaj	University of Petroleum and Energy Studies	India
7	16:15	Rotary solar sail for nanosatellite constellation formation	15	confirmed	Ms. Valeriia Melnikova	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russian Federation
8	16:30	The Value Proposition of Multi-Megawatt Electric Power/Propulsion for the Human Exploration of Mars	15	confirmed	Mr. John Scott	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
9	16:45	Manned mission to Europa using Advanced positron drive	15	confirmed	Mr. Mridul Jain	University of Petroleum and Energy Studies	India
10	17:00	Prospects for the use of helicon thrusters for space exploration	15	confirmed	Mrs. Iana Kharlan		Russian Federation
11	17:15	The Kon-Tiki Mission – Demonstrating Large Solar Sails for Deep Space Missions	15	confirmed	Mr. Les Johnson	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center	United States
12	17:30	Launch System Solutions for Interstellar Travel	15	withdrawn	Mr. Steven Vernon	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
*		A torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating		confirmed	Prof. Roman Ya. Kezerashvili	New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York	United States
*		Fast Transit to Mars			Dr. Geoffrey Steeves	International Space University (ISU)	France
*		New Propulsion Systems: Landers: Tiroidal Sheath Motor Combines Lift and Thrust vs Thrust Only		confirmed	Mr. Thomas Mallard		United States
*		nuclear fusion propulsion system for human missions to mars			Mr. Saroj Kumar	Propulsion Research Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville	United States
*		Parametric Study of Solar Electric Sail Thrust Modeling for Interplanetary Missions under Various Solar Wind Variability		confirmed	Prof. Harijono Djojodihardjo		Indonesia