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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
2	10:15	Preparing for a Potential Future Mars Sample Return – The Design, Certification, and Construction of Three Forks Sample Depot	12		Dr. Sydney Do	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology	United States
3	10:27	Introduction to the Development Status of South Korea's Mars Orbiter	12		Dr. SANG-WOOK KANG	KARI	Korea, Republic of
4	10:39	Blue Origin’s New Glenn and the NASA ESCAPADE Mission to Mars	12	confirmed	Mrs. Laura Maginnis	Blue Origin LLC	United States
5	10:51	M-MATISSE Mission Concept Trade-off – a novel approach to comprehensive technical and programmatic evaluation in early design phases of Science spacecraft	13		Mr. Alvaro Sanz Casado	OHB System AG	Germany
6	11:04	Earth2Mars: A Shared International Concept for Lower Cost Mars Missions	12		Mr. Steve Matousek	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
7	11:16	The International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG) Annual Report	12		Dr. Claire E. Parfitt	European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC)	The Netherlands
8	11:28	Mars Exploration: An approach for international partnerships with emerging space nations	12	confirmed	Mr. Nick Carter	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Australia
9	11:40	A Proposed Mission Design for a Future Subsurface Destination on Mars	12		Dr. Jennifer Blank	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center /Blue Marble Space Institute of Science	United States
10	11:52	From fissures at altitude to the depths of Martian lava tubes and pits - Mission concept to explore Mars using jumping legged robots	11	confirmed	Mr. Jørgen Anker Olsen	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
11	12:03	Autonomous AI-Enhanced UAV System for High-Resolution Gravimetric Surveying Along Mars' Equatorial Zone: Design and Mission Implementation	11		Dr. Hao Liu	Tsinghua University	China
12	12:14	Environmental and Legal Challenges of Mars Colonization: A Governance Perspective	12		Ms. Shrawani Shagun	National Law University, Delhi	India
*		Minimizing the Risk of a Human Mars Mission	12		Dr. Harry Jones	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center	United States