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4B

session 4B

Title: Small Bodies Missions and Technologies (Part 2)
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: 2026-10-09
Time: 10:15
Room: E3

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
2	10:15	The ESA Hera mission : Less than a month before arrival to the binary asteroid Didymos	12	confirmed	Dr. Patrick Michel	University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur	France
3	10:27	In-flight antenna deployed length optimisation for the Hera mission’s Juventas cubesat Radar (JuRa)	10	confirmed	Mr. Christian Schmidt	Emtronix Sarl	Luxembourg
4	10:37	The RAMSES Mission to Apophis during its 2029 close Earth encounter	12	confirmed	Prof. Monica Lazzarin	University of Padua	Italy
5	10:49	Autonomous Proximity Operations near Apophis: Interpretability and Generalisation Analysis of a Meta-Reinforcement Learning Optimised Fuzzy Inference System	10	confirmed	Dr. Anirudh Chhabra	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
8	10:59	Applicability of Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination for Functionally Separated Small-Body Sample Return Missions	10	confirmed	Mr. Ayumu Kawasaki	The University of TOKYO, Graduate school	Japan
9	11:09	TOFINO: High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry as a Mission-Enabling Payload Capability for Future Comet Exploration	10	confirmed	Mr. Robin Bonny	University of Bern	Switzerland
10	11:19	OPIC on Comet Interceptor: Towards Autonomous Imaging of Poorly Characterized Targets of Opportunity	10	confirmed	Dr. Mihkel Pajusalu	University of Tartu	Estonia
11	11:29	Ballistic Rendezvous Maneuver of an Asteroid Surface Probe and an Orbiting Mothercraft via Robotic Hopping	8	confirmed	Mr. Pierluigi Vergari	Politecnico di Torino	Italy