First Announcement
Fifth IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions
24-26 September 2003
ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Objectives
The Fifth IAA International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions is
designed to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, managers, and agency
representatives to exchange information, in-flight results, and present new
ideas about small-scale planetary missions.
Several important milestones in terms of low-cost planetary missions will be
achieved within the next years, including the following missions:
- July 2002: CONTOUR (NASA Discovery)
- December 2002: MUSES C
- February 2003: LUNAR A
- March 2003: SMART-1
- January2004: Deep Impact (NASA Discovery)
- July 2004 Messenger (NASA Discovery)
- May 2006: Dawn (NASA Discovery)
- SELENE (ISAS Technology Mission)
Programme
The Conference will focus on the latest developments and the future outlook
for low-cost planetary programmes. A goal of the Conference is to expand
cooperative efforts throughout the global scientific community. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
* Mission Categories
- o Lunar
- o Earth-like planets and moons
- o Outer planets
- o Comets and asteroids
- o Interplanetary (and deep space)
- Solar probes
* Space Technology
- Low-cost spacecraft concepts
- Sensors and instrumentation
- Spacecraft subsystems, landers, entry technologies
- Miniaturisation
* Mission Planning and Operations
- Mission design
- Spacecraft operations
- Tracking and data return
- Ground segment
* Delivery Systems
- Launch vehicles
- Piggyback concepts
- Advanced propulsion techniques
* Management Approach
- Opportunities for cooperative undertakings
- Model philosophy
- Organisation
- Risk assessment
- Validation test philosophy
- Success criteria
- Cost/schedule trade-offs
The Conference will consist of:
- Lectures by invited speakers
- Contributed papers
- Poster papers
- Panel d iscussions
- Conclusions and recommendations.
Schedule
- 15 June 2002 First Announcement
- 7 October 2002 Second Announcement and Call
- for Papers
- 31 March 2003 Abstracts due
- 5 May 2003 Notification to authors
- 6 June 2003 Final Announcement and
- preliminary agenda
- 8 September 2003 Preprints due
- 24-26 September 2003Conference dates
Sponsors
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
Co-Sponsors
- Centre National d?Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- The German Space Agency (DLR)
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
- American Astronautical Society (AAS)
- Institute of Space & Astronautical Science (ISAS)
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
- Russian Space Research Institute (IKI)
- The Planetary Society
General Chairmen
- David Southwood (ESA, Paris)
- Stamatios M. Krimigis (JHU/APL, USA)
- Hiroki Matsuo (ISAS, Japan)
Honorary Chairman
- Edward C. Stone (CALTECH, USA)
Programme Committee
- Constantinos Stavrinidis, Chairman (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Robert Farquhar (JHU/APL, USA)
- Margaret Simon (JHU/APL, USA)
- Arnoldo Valenzuela (Media Lario, Italy)
- Roberto Stalio (ASI, Italy)
- Ludwig Baumgarten (DLR, Germany)
- John Beckman (JPL, USA)
- Jacques Blamont (CNES, France)
- Richard Bonneville (CNES, France)
- Richard Creasey (ESA/ESTEC The Netherlands)
- John Credland ( ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Michael Eiden (ESA/ESTEC,The Netherlands)
- Coleen Hartmann (NASA HQ, USA)
- Manuel Grande (RAL, Great-Britain)
- Hitoshi Mizutani (ISAS, Japan)
- Jesse Moore (Ball Aerospace, USA)
- Andy Phipps (SSTL, Great-Britain)
- Peter Rathsman (SSC, Sweden)
- Edoardo Re (Tecnospazio, Italy)
- Kuninori Uesugi (ISAS, Japan)
- Amnon Ginati (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Jozef van der Ha (Consultant, Germany)
Conference Committee
- Jean-Michel Contant (IAA, France)
- Gordon Whitcomb (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Wolfgang Baumjohann (Univ. Graz, Austria)
- Geoff Briggs (NASA/AMES, USA)
- Robert Brown (STScI, USA)
- Marcello Coradini (ESA, France)
- Al Diaz (NASA/GSFC, USA)
- Charles Elachi (NASA/JPL, USA)
- Louis Friedman (The Planetary Society, USA)
- Albert Galeev (IKI, Russia)
- Bruno Gardini (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Alvaro Gimenez (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Gerhard Haerendel (I. U.Bremen, Germany)
- Niels Jensen (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Jun?ichiro Kawaguchi (ISAS, Japan)
- Denis Moura (CNES, France)
- Franco Ongaro (ESA/HQ, France)
- Anthony Peacock (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Michel Rougeron (CNES, France)
- Roald Sagdeev (Univ. of MD, USA)
- Gerhard Schwehm (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
- Karoly Szego (KFKI, Hungary)
Conference & Programme Coordinator
- ESTEC Conference Bureau
- PO Box 299
- 2200 AG Noordwijk
- The Netherlands
- Tel.: +31-71-565 5005
- Fax.: +31-71-565 5658