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session 1

Title: Human Exploration of the Moon and Cislunar Space
type: oral
Description: This session will examine the scenarios and infrastructure required to support human exploration of the Moon and Cislunar space. Papers are invited to discuss technology roadmaps as well as interfaces to allow international cooperation.
Date: 2026-10-07
Time: 10:15
Room: Hall 6

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor, Avalon Space, Canada;
Co-Chair: Dr. Greg Chavers, NASA, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Marc Haese, DLR, German Aerospace Center, Germany;
Rapporteur: Mr. Henrik Pettersson, Swedish Space Corporation, Sweden;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Early Infrastructure Technologies to Advance a Lunar Base	10		Dr. Wesley Fuhrman	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	United States
2	10:25	ISECG Lunar Surface Reference Scenario Updates since GER 2024	10	confirmed	Mr. Kota Tanabe	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
3	10:35	Lunar laissez-faire: A perspective on lunar exploration	10	confirmed	Mr. Andrew Thomas	The British Interplanetary Society	United Kingdom
4	10:45	Cislunar Orbital Traffic Control: A Hybrid Human-AI Coordination System for Managing Conjunctions, Rendezvous, and Debris in the Earth-Moon Corridor (Under the SODC Architecture)	10	confirmed	Ms. Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba	University of Florida, Vicillion	United States
5	10:55	Lunar-Segment Communications: Connectivity Architectures for Human Operations on the Surface of the Moon	10	confirmed	Mr. Joshua Kassulke	International Space University (ISU)/University of South Australia	Australia
6	11:05	The Lunar Testbed: De-Risking Mars Through Institutional and Ethical Prototyping	10	confirmed	Mr. Lars R. "Jones" Vadjina	University of Tübingen	Germany
7	11:15	toward coordinated lunar governance under uncoordinated frameworks: a comparative legal analysis of the artemis accords and the ilrs partner guidelines	10	confirmed	Mr. Junyi Duan	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)	China
8	11:25	Consultative Pathways for Lunar Governance: Strategic Perspectives from the Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation (ATLAC)	10	confirmed	Dr. Ulpia Elena Botezatu	Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)	Romania
9	11:35	From Short Missions to Sustained Presence: A Scenario-based Framework for Assessing How Infrastructure and Interoperability Shape Lunar Crew-Time Scaling	10	confirmed	Ms. Ekaterina Seltikova		France
10	11:45	End-to-End Multimodal Detection of Lunar and Martian Lava Tubes	10	confirmed	Mr. Gian Mario Marongiu	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
11	11:55	Autonomous Resilience: A Comparative Analysis and Challenges of Self-Healing Concrete Technologies for Sustainable Lunar Infrastructure	10	confirmed	Prof. Giancarlo Genta	Politecnico di Torino	Italy