Programme and Event Booklets
IPPW-2019_Brochure_for website_July07
Posters & Poster Locations
IPPW-2019-Poster_Program_July2
Posters are displayed in two sessions: Monday-Wednesday, and Wednesday-Friday. There are poster sessions with authors in attendance on Tuesday and Thursday respectively for the posters.
Poster Locations
Poster authors will also be given the opportunity to give a one-slide, one-minute poster introduction in the relevant oral session.
Key Dates
| IPPW 2019 Activity | Key Date |
| Registration on Website Opens | 05-Apr-19 |
| Abstract Submission Deadline | 08-Mar-19 |
| Student Scholarship Applications | 08-Mar-19 |
| Author Acceptance Notifications | 05-Apr-19 |
| Student Scholarship Announcement | 12-Apr-19 |
| Hotel Reservation Deadline | various |
| Early Bird Registration Deadline | 08-May-19 |
| Final Announcement | 21-Jun-19 |
| Short Course | 06-Jul – 07-Jul |
| IPPW | 08-Jul – 12-Jul |
Main Workshop Technical Sessions
Mars Exploration
Conveners: Ashley Korzun, David Mimoun, Michelle Munk, and Brooke Harper
This session will concentrate on current and proposed missions to Mars. Topics may include missions, science, technology, and systems dealing with the in-situ exploration of Mars, such as landers, aerobraking, or entry probes. Contributions to this session can address aspects such as atmospheric science and environment characterization, robotic and human EDL, and sample return. The successful 2018 Mars InSight lander mission will be featured in this session.
Sample Return to Earth
Conveners: Scott Perino, Matthias Grott, Marcus Lobbia, Joern Helbert, and Sahadeo Ramjatan
This session will contain concepts and projects that have a sample return to Earth element to the mission architecture. The focus will be on the entry, descent, and landing aspect of the sample return phase, especially how the spacecraft and science instrumentations are designed to handle the planetary protection requirements and the high reliability expected of sample return to Earth. Contributions discussing sample acquisition systems and sample curation on Earth are also welcome.
Solar System Exploration I – Mercury, Venus, Giant Planets, and Titan
Conveners: Thibault Cavalie, Jacob Izraelevitz, and Olivier Mousis
The focus of the Solar System Exploration Session is on planetary probe/lander exploration of Mercury, Venus, the gas and ice giant planets, and Titan. The giant planets represent time capsules from the epoch of solar system formation, and within the atmospheres and deep interiors of the giant planets, fingerprints can be found of the chemical and physical conditions at the time of solar system formation and the processes by which the giant planets formed and the solar system evolved. Venus and Titan, with dense atmospheres, complex atmospheric processes, and surface-atmosphere interactions, form natural laboratories to study similar phenomena on Earth. Additionally, the prospect of a putative subsurface ocean on Titan presents a potentially habitable environment has exciting implications for astrobiology and could offer important clues to answer fundamental questions regarding pre-biotic and biotic chemistries, and life. With the discovery on Mercury of surface organics (a building block for life), relatively young water ice in permanently shadowed craters, and abundances of magnesium and sulfur that exceed that of the other terrestrial planets, the surface of Mercury remains a mysterious and intriguing target.
The Solar System Exploration Session solicits papers addressing the science and science drivers, technologies, instrumentation, entry conditions, entry and deceleration systems, descent vehicle systems, and in-situ mission concepts for entry probe, lander, and aerobotic exploration of the extreme environments found at Mercury, Venus, the gas and ice giant planets, and Titan. Papers addressing lessons learned and results from previous missions are also welcomed.
Solar System Exploration II – Airless Planetary Satellites, Asteroids, and Comets
Conveners: Aline Zimmer, Christian Grimm, Michelle Rodio, and Benoit Pigneur
This session focuses on the in-situ exploration of the Earth’s moon, other airless planetary satellites (examples include but are not limited to Europa, Ganymede, Enceladus, and Triton), as well as small solar system bodies characterized by weak gravitational fields such as asteroids and comets. The session covers scientific goals, mission concepts, mission and flight system elements, operations strategies, and payload capabilities for current projects, concepts for future missions, and lessons learned from past missions
Modeling, Simulation, Testing, and Validation
Conveners: Clara O’Farrell, Michael Wright, Julia Kowalski, Al Witkowski and Aaron Stehura
This session will focus on modeling and simulation advancements for planetary probes including: entry, descent and landing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), guidance, navigation and control (GNC), materials and thermal protection systems (TPS) modeling, decelerator systems, surface operations, integrated/optimized capabilities, and related disciplines. Current work in testing and demonstration techniques, model validation, and diagnostics, are also a major component of this session. Work that is advancing the state-of-the-art of the current scientific theories, capabilities or technologies, or comparing or leveraging both testing and computational models including data-driven modeling, is especially relevant. Preference for talks should be regarding the application of models, simulations, ground testing, flight tests, and validation directly related to entry, descent, and landing missions and proposals instead of general model development.
Science Instrumentation, Experiments, and In-Situ Measurements
Conveners: Manuel Dominguez, Rafael Lugo, Ryan Timoney, and Gregory Villar
In-situ planetary science measurements are fundamental to our understanding of the solar system. This session covers the development and implementation of past, present and future science and engineering instrumentation for spacecraft exploring planets, moons and small bodies. Abstracts for probe and lander instruments for current and proposed missions (e.g. InSight, Mars2020, Exomars 2020, Luna 27, Dragonfly, Europa, CAESAR, MMX/Phobos) as well as future opportunities (e.g. lunar surface instrumentation) are invited. This session will discuss the fundamental goals and challenges of instrumentation, practical limitations of data collection, and lessons-learned from past efforts.
Entry, Descent, and Landing Technologies
Conveners: Tom West, Rodrigo Haya Ramos, Milad Mahzari, Karl Edquist, and Eric Stern
This session is focused on the engineering, physics, and technology of end-to-end EDL architectures, including landers, probes, and deployment of flight vehicles. Talks are welcome in, but not limited to, the fields of aerodynamic decelerators, parachutes, rigid/inflatable heat shields, aerothermodynamics , thermal protection systems (TPS), GN&C, aerobraking, retro-propulsion, phase transitions, touchdown/landing systems, and EDL instrumentation (e.g., aerothermodynamic sensor systems, sensors, hazard detection and avoidance, pinpoint landing, etc.). Discussion on new developments, cross-cutting, transversal or Earth demonstration is fostered.
Innovative Concepts for Exploration
Conveners: Robert Dillman, Dmitriy Shutin, Gilles Bailet, and Siddharth Krishnamoorthy
This session invites abstracts on new and innovative mission concepts, scientific instruments, and technologies for solar system exploration. Innovative concepts may discuss new techniques of studying solar system bodies or ways to reduce mission risk and/or life cycle costs. Mission concepts may be small probes that augment a primary spacecraft’s mission, missions of opportunity, or standalone missions.
Programme Organising Committee
If you have any questions relating to the Programme, please contact one of the Committee Members
Soumyo Dutta soumyo.dutta@nasa.gov
Joern Helbert Joern.Helbert@dlr.de
Todd White todd.r.white@nasa.gov