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7th IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions - September 11 - 14, 2007
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Abstract Deadline - Aug. 24
Poster Selection - no later
    than Aug. 31
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    Deadline - Sept. 7
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Conference Agenda

September 11, Tuesday Evening
Registration and Welcome Reception
Sheraton Pasadena Hotel
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
September 12, Wednesday Morning
Ramo Auditorium at Baxter Hall, California Institute of Technology
8:00 Registration
  Continental Breakfast
9:00 Opening Session
  Edward C. Stone, President, IAA, Professor, Caltech
  Firouz Naderi, Associate Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
9:30 Session 1: National and International Planetary Science and Exploration Programs
Chairs Bernard Foing, ESA/ESTEC
Gregg Vane, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) NASA's Planetary Science Program
James Green
Director, NASA Science Mission Directorate Planetary Science Division
  (Invited) ESA's Program of Planetary Science and Exploration
Peter Falkner
Head, Planetary Exploration Studies, ESA
  (Invited) Japan's Planetary Program
Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi
Program Manager, JAXA Lunar and Planetary Exploration Organization
  (Invited) Indian Space Program
Virender Kumar
Counsellor (Space), Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.
12:00 Lunch, Caltech Athenaeum
1:30 September 12, Wednesday Afternoon
Session 2: Recent Science Discoveries on Low-Cost Missions
Chairs Pascale Ehrenfreund, Leiden University
David Senske, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) Science Results from the Hayabusa Mission to Asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Hajime Yano
Department of Planetary Science the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)/JAXA
  (Invited) Results from ESA's SMART-1 Mission
Bernard Foing
SMART-1 Project Scientist
ESA Research and Scientific Support Department
  (Invited) Genesis Discovery Mission - Status And Lessons Learned
Donald Burnett
Genesis Principal Investigator
California Institute of Technology
  (Invited) Science Results from the Stardust Sample Return Mission
Donald Brownlee
Stardust Principal Investigator
University of Washington
  Break
3:30 Poster Session 1
  Session 2 - Recent Discoveries on Low-Cost Missions POSTERS
1. Critical Crater Diameter and the Impact Response of Asteroids
Erik Asphaug, UCSC
2. Mars Express - More Than 3 Years of Scientific Discoveries
A. Chicarro, ESA/SCI-S
3. Palomar AO Observations During Deep Impact: A Comparison of Cometary Dust Experiments
James Bauer, JPL, Young-Jun Choi, Paul R. Weissman
4. SMART-1/Clementine Study of Humorum and Procellarum Basins: Coupling Between Impacts, Volcanism and Tectonics
Bernard Foing, ESA, S. Peters, D. Koschny, A. Rossi & SMART-1 AMIE Team
5. The Planetary Science Archive (PSA)
Bernard Foing, ESA, D. Heather, N. Manaud, M. Barthelemy, J. Vazquez, M. Szumlas, I. Ortiz, C. Arviset, E. Parilla
6. Unprecedented Jovian Magnetotail Observations by New Horizons/PEPSSI: Success of a Low-Cost Energetic Particle Sensor
Matthew Hill, JHU/APL, R. Gurnee, D. Haggerty, G. Ho, S. Krimigis, S. Livi, B. Mauk, R. McNutt and D. Mitchell
7 - 8. TBD
  Session 3 - Missions in Operation POSTERS
9. EPOXI Mission Design
William Blume, JPL
10. Planetary Science Archive (PSA): Rosetta Archive Status
Bernard Foing, ESA, K. Wirth, et al.
11. Multi-Mission Operations System for Science Missions
Dave Linick, JPL, Duane Bindschadler
12. TBD
  Session 6 - Science Instruments for the Future POSTERS
13. Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectrometer for Chemical Analysis of Planetary Surfaces
Paula Grunthaner, JPL, C. Bryson, M. Kelly, F. Grunthaner, V. White, X. Amashukelli, R. Quinn
14. Deep Interior: Radar Exploration of Asteroid Interiors
Ali Safaeinili, JPL, E. Asphaug, Y. Gim, E. Heggy
15. Reconfigurable Imaging Spectroscopy
William R. Johnson, JPL, Wolfgang Fink, Daniel Wilson & Greg Bearman
16. High-Resolution Mapping of Mars Surface and Subsurface
Ali Safaeinili, JPL and Jeff. Plaut
17. Lunar Beagle: A Planetary Package for Answering the Important Science Questions
Everett Gibson, NASA JSC, D. McKay, C. Pillinger, I. Wright, M. Sims and L. Richter
18. Miniature Imaging Spectrometer for Low Cost Planetary Missions
Glenn Sellar, JPL, P. Mouroulis, B. VanGorp, D. Wilson, S. Gunapala, R. Green, D. Blaney
19. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper: A Low Cost, High Uniformity and High Signal-to-Noise Ratio Imaging Spectrometer for Solar System Missions
Robert O. Green, JPL, C. Pieters, P. Mouroulis, Mary White, Timothy Koch
20. Fine Resolution Topographic Mapping from a Small Ka-band Radar Interferometer
Brian Pollard, JPL and Soren Madsen
21-24. TBD
September 13, Thursday Morning
Ramo Auditorium at Baxter Hall, California Institute of Technology
7:30 Registration
  Continental Breakfast
8:30 Session 3: Missions in Operation
Chairs Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi, JAXA
William Weber, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) Venus Express
Hakan Svedhem
Venus Express Project Scientist
ESA/ESTEC
  (Invited) Mars Odyssey
Bob Mase
Mars Odyssey Mission Manager
JPL
  (Invited) The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
Peter Bedini
MESSENGER Project
APL
  (Invited) Phoenix: The First Mars Scout Mission
David A. Spencer
Phoenix Deputy Project Manager
JPL
  (Invited) Stardust New Exploration of Tempel-1 (NExT)
Joseph Veverka
Cornell University
  Break
11:00 Session 4: Learning from the Past - Lessons for the Future: A Panel Discussion
Chairs Roger Gibbs, NASA/JPL
Robert Strain, APL
Panel Members James Green, Director, NASA SMD Planetary Science Division
Sean Solomon, Principal Investigator, MESSENGER Discovery Mission
Chris Russell, Principal Investigator, Dawn Discovery Mission
Barry Goldstein, Project Manager, Phoenix Mars Scout Mission
Bernard Foing, Project Scientist, ESA Smart-1 Mission
12:00 Lunch, Caltech Athenaeum
1:30 September 13, Thursday Afternoon
Session 5: Missions in Definition or Development
Chairs Walt Faulconer, APL
Firouz Naderi, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) The Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter Mission of Japan
Masato Nakamura
JAXA
  (Invited) Dawn Discovery Mission to Vesta and Ceres
Keyur Patel, Marc Rayman, Carol Raymond, JPL and
Chris Russell, UCLA
  (Invited) Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbiter: India's First Planetary Mission
M. Annadurai, Chandrayaan-1 Project Manager, ISRO and Thomas Glavich, Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Project Manager, JPL
  (Invited) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Science and Mission Overview
Maria Zuber, MIT, David Smith, GSSC, Leon Alkalai, JPL and David Lehman, JPL
  (Invited) The New Millennium Program Space Technology 9: Terrain Relative Guidance System Mission
Sam Thurman, Calina Seybold, Richard Mathies, JPL
  Break
3:30 Poster Session 2
  Session 5 - Mission in Definition or Development POSTERS
1. Baseline Mission Operation Cost for a Mars Orbiter
Paul Kudrle, JPL, Eleanor Basilio, Greg Welz
2. TBD
  Session 7 - Advanced Concepts for Future Low-Cost Planetary Missions POSTERS
3. A Scout-Class Lander for Studying Geophysics and Meteorology on Mars
Bruce Banerdt, JPL and Kim Reh
4. An Approach to Minimum Cost NEO Characterization
Richard Reinert, Ball Aerospace, Richard Dissly, Scott Mitchell
5. Implementing Parametric Cost Estimation Strategies for Multiple Spacecraft Manufacturing Cost Model Development
Guangming Chen, Morgan State University, Ricky Whittington, Douglas McLennan
6-12. TBD
13. Modular Spacecraft Design for Lunar Exploration
Butler Hine, NASA Ames Research Center, William Marshall, Mark Turner and Alan Weston
14. Small Spacecraft Lunar Mission Concepts
Jennifer Heldmann, NASA Ames Research Center, Antonor Ricco, Carol Stoker, Tomas Svitek, John Hines, Peter Klupar
15. Stand-off Estimation of Binary Asteroid Mass Distributions
Daniel Scheeres, Univ of Mich/Univ of Colorado, E. Gahnestock
16. Tier-scalable Reconnaissance: A Paradigm Shift in Autonomous Robotic Planetary Exploration
Wolfgang Fink, Caltech, Mark Tarbell
17. Triple F: A Comet Nucleus Sample Return Mission for ESA's Cosmic Vision Program
Pascale Ehrenfreund, ESA, M. Keuppers , H. Keller, E. Kuehrt and the Triple F Team
18. Propulsive ESPA Ring Secondary Payloads Enable Low-Cost Planetary Missions
Howard Eller, Northrop Grumman, Stewart Moses, Larry Urner
19-24. TBD
September 13, Thursday Evening
Conference Banquet
California Institute of Technology Athenaeum
6:00 p.m.
September 14, Friday Morning
Ramo Auditorium at Baxter Hall, California Institute of Technology
7:30 Registration
  Continental Breakfast
8:30 Session 6: Science Instruments for the Future
Chairs Paula Grunthaner, NASA/JPL
Paul Mahaffy, GSFC
  (Invited) Advanced Instrument Investigations on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory
Joy Crisp
Mars Science Laboratory Deputy Science Director
JPL
  (Invited) Electro-Mechanical Moles for Low Mass, Low Power Subsurface Access and Sampling in Planetary Regolith
Lutz Richter
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research
  (Invited) Planetary Raman Spectroscopy: Sciences and Instrumentation
Alian Wang
Senior Research Scientist, McDonnell Center for Space Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  (Invited) Urey Organic and Oxidant Detector and its Application to Small Payload Missions
Frank Grunthaner
Senior Research Scientist
JPL
  Break
11:00 Session 7: Advanced Concepts for Future Low-Cost Planetary Missions
Chairs Peter Falkner, ESA/ESTEC
Keith Grogan, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) Hayabusa-2, The Next Asteroid Sample Return Mission of Japan
Makoto Yoshikawa
JAXA
  (Invited) The Planetary Aerocapture Technology Validation Mission
Jeff Hall, JPL and Michelle Munk, LaRC
12:00 Lunch, Caltech Athenaeum
1:30 September 14, Friday Afternoon
Session 7: Advanced Concepts for Future Low-Cost Planetary Missions (cont'd)
Chairs Peter Falkner, ESA/ESTEC
Keith Grogan, NASA/JPL
  (Invited) ESA's Cosmic Vision Program
Peter Falkner, ESA/ESTEC
  Small Surface Probes for the In-situ Characterization of Asteroids and Comets
Richard Dissly and Rich Reinert, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
  Technologies for Low Cost Planetary Science Missions
Craig Peterson, JPL, James Cutts, Tibor Balint
3:00 Conference Wrap-up, End of Conference
  Gregg Vane
General Chairman
NASA/JPL
 
 
 

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