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4A

session 4A

Title: Small Bodies Missions and Technologies (Part 1)
type: oral
Description: This session will present the missions and technological aspects related to the exploration of small bodies including a search for pre-biotic signatures.
Date: 2025-10-02
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C4.5

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Stephan Ulamec, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Co-Chair: Ms. Cheryl L.B. Reed, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Norbert Frischauf, TU Graz, Austria;
Rapporteur: Ms. Shana Diez, SpaceX, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	A Year to Go: Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)'s Journey to the Martian Moons	15		Dr. Yasuhiro Kawakatsu	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), ISAS	Japan
2	10:30	IDEFIX - The MMX Rover: One year before launch	12		Dr. Stephan Ulamec	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
3	10:42	INSIGHTS INTO THE STRENGTH AND COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION OF BENNU’S SURFACE FROM CRATERS ON CENTIMETER-SCALE SAMPLES TO DECAMETER-SCALE BOULDERS	15		Dr. Ronald Ballouz	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
4	10:57	DESTINY+ trajectory design for multi small bodies flyby and its flyby observation	12		Dr. Takayuki Yamamoto	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
5	11:09	The ESA Hera mission to the binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos: one year after launch	12		Dr. Patrick Michel	University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur	France
6	11:21	Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt 2028 - Overview	12		Mr. Abdulla Alshehhi	UAE Space Agency	United Arab Emirates
7	11:33	Emirates Mission to the Asteroids Lander: Justitia Exploration, Descent and Imaging	10		Mr. Muhammad Taha Ansari	Technology Innovation Institute (TII)	United Arab Emirates
8	11:43	The OSIRIS-APEX Mission: NASA’s New-Frontiers-Class Apophis Explorer	12		Dr. Terik Daly	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
9	11:55	The ESA RAMSES mission: rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029	12		Prof. Monica Lazzarin	University of Padua	Italy
10	12:07	Advancing Toward Apophis: Progress Report on the Caltech Mission	12		Dr. Lorraine Fesq	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology	United States
11	12:19	French involvement in Hera and in missions to Apophis	12		Mr. Pierre W. Bousquet	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France