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The ESA Workshop on GNC for Small Body Missions

PROGRAMME

Last update: 20 January 2009

The abstract booklet can be downloaded here (doc).

Wednesday, 14 January 2009
09:00
Registration
09:45
Opening and Welcome
Rémi Drai (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands) – Control Engineering Section
10:00
Presentation
Assessment of AOCS in-orbit performance during Rosetta flyby at asteroid Steins
Mathias Lauer (ESA/ESOC, Germany)
10:40
Presentation
GNC Aspects of the Marco Polo Mission
David Agnolon (ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands) – Planetary exploration studies section
11:20
Coffee Break
11:40
Presentation
GNC architecture options for missions to small bodies
Sébastien Clerc (TAS, France)
12:20
Presentation
Small Body Proximity Operations Small Body Proximity Operations Autonomous GNC Concepts Based Autonomous GNC Concepts Based on Novel on Novel Gravi Gravitational ational Field Field Modelling and Estimation Modelling and Estimation Techniques
Luis, F. Peñín (DEIMOS, Spain)
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00
Presentation
Vision-based navigation for approach and landing on small bodies
Cyril Cavel (ASTRIUM, France)
14:40
Presentation
Autonomous GNC Systems Applied to Interplanetary Missions: the NEO Descent and Landing case
Jesus Gil (GMV, Spain)
15:20
Presentation
Mathematical Aspects in Estimating Rotational Parameters of Small Celestial Bodies
Karlheinz Spindler (Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany)
16:00
Presentation
Navigation and Motion Control of the Phobos-Soil S/C during Approach and Landing
A. Zhakarov (IKI, Russia)
16:40
Wrap-up discussion day 1
17:30
Adjourn

Thursday, 15 January 2009
09:00
Registration

09:30

Presentation
PANGU Planet and Asteroid Natural scene Generation Utility
Martin Dunstan (U. of Dundee, UK)
10:10
Presentation
Proximity Operations at Small Bodies - Findings of the ASTEX Study
Sven Schaeff (Astos, Germany)
10:50
Presentation
Small-Body Mission Analysis & Design at Delft University of Technology
Jeroen Melman, (DUT, The Netherlands)
11:30
Coffee Break
11:50
Presentation
Guidance and Navigation Scheme for HAYABUSA Asteroid Exploration and Sample Return Mission
Takashi Kubota (JSPEC/JAXA, Japan)
12:30
Presentation
Orbital Dynamics at Binary Asteroid Systems: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
Julie Bellerose (JSPEC/JAXA, Japan)
13:10
Discussions day 2 – Round table
13:45
Lunch - Adjourn
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