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3A

session 3A

Title: Mars Exploration – missions current and future
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.
Date: 2025-10-01
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C4.5

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: Ms. Cheryl L.B. Reed, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States;
Rapporteur: Ms. Lisa May, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Preparing for a Potential Future Mars Sample Return – The Design, Certification, and Construction of Three Forks Sample Depot	15	confirmed	Dr. Sydney Do	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
2	10:30	Blue Origin’s New Glenn and the NASA ESCAPADE Mission to Mars	15'	confirmed	Mrs. Laura Maginnis	Blue Origin LLC	United States
3	10:45	M-MATISSE Mission Concept Trade-off – a novel approach to comprehensive technical and programmatic evaluation in early design phases of Science spacecraft	15'	confirmed	Mr. Alvaro Sanz Casado	OHB System AG	Germany
4	11:00	Earth2Mars: A Shared International Concept for Lower Cost Mars Missions	15'	confirmed	Mr. Steve Matousek	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
5	11:15	The International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG) Annual Report	15'	confirmed	Dr. Claire E. Parfitt	European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC)	The Netherlands
6	11:30	Mars Exploration: An approach for international partnerships with emerging space nations	15'	confirmed	Mr. Nick Carter	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Australia
7	11:45	A Proposed Mission Design for a Future Subsurface Destination on Mars	15'	confirmed	Dr. Jennifer Blank	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center /Blue Marble Space Institute of Science	United States
8	12:00	From fissures at altitude to the depths of Martian lava tubes and pits - Mission concept to explore Mars using jumping legged robots	15'	confirmed	Mr. Jørgen Anker Olsen	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
9	12:15	Autonomous AI-Enhanced UAV System for High-Resolution Gravimetric Surveying Along Mars' Equatorial Zone: Design and Mission Implementation	15'	confirmed	Dr. Hao Liu	Tsinghua University	China
10	12:30	Environmental and Legal Challenges of Mars Colonization: A Governance Perspective	15'	confirmed	Ms. Shrawani Shagun	National Law University, Delhi	India