Planetary Group Seminar: Trends in Solar System Exploration - sample return, cubesats and new partners (J. Biele)

  • Date: Jul 2, 2019
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jens Biele
  • DLR Köln
  • Location: MPS
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Urs Mall
Planetary Group Seminar: Trends in Solar System Exploration - sample return, cubesats and new partners (J. Biele)
In solar system exploration, the trend is away from dedicated large remote-sensing missions towards sample return. Nanospacecraft/cubesats like the asteroid landers MINERVA-II and MASCOT aboard JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission have proven themselves in critical risk-taking scouting or landing missions for their larger mothership. Current sampling technologies are briefly reviewed, including SD2 on Rosetta/Philae: Mechanical interaction with a poorly known, "uncooperative" regolith surface is a key issue. - Besides ESA and NASA, cooperations with new partners (Japan, China, private enterprises) are increasingly important for the European solar system science community and we have to get prepared in an efficient way.


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