Name: ESA Planetary Dust Contamination Workshop 2025
Start: 2025-06-04T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ESTEC

ESA Planetary Dust Contamination Workshop 2025

from Wednesday, 4 June 2025 (09:00) to Thursday, 5 June 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 2 June 2025
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:00 - 09:30
Room: Newton 1
09:30 Session 1: Dust, simulants and characterisation
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

09:30 On the Phenomenological Behaviour of Dust; Causes, Characterisation and Consequences - Michael Bradley (The Wolfson Centre, University of Greenwich)

09:55 LuNOR: Nordic-Origin Industrial Lunar Simulant for Enhanced Fidelity, Consistency & Sustainability in Dust Contamination Research - Øystein Risan Borgersen (SolSys Mining AS)

10:05 Sensing and Modelling Planetary Dust Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and their Effects on Space Missions by High-Fidelity ROS-Activated Dust Simulants - Christos Georgiou (Stellar Discoveries)

10:35 Experimental investigations of impact processes on the metal asteroid 16 Psyche - Danielle Vosper (European Space Agency)
11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Newton 1
11:30 Session 2: Laboratories and test facilities
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

11:45 ESTEC Vacuum dust (adhesion) characterization facility - Bruno Delacourt

12:10 Virtual Formulation Laboratory for Prediction and Optimisation of Lunar Regolith Simulant Behaviour in Extra-Terrestrial Environments - Vivek Garg (The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology)

12:35 ESA’s Vulcan Analogue Sample Facility: Applied Simulants Research - Christopher Ogunlesi (ESA)

12:50 LUNA analogue facility - Corinne Barker
13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:00
Room: Newton 1
14:00 Session 3: Dust properties and transport
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

14:00 First results of the DUSTER project and way forward - Alice Suarez Kahan (ONERA)

14:25 The Electrostatic Properties of Apollo Regolith Samples and the Behaviour of Lunar Dust - May Martin (European Space Agency)

14:50 Lunar dust adhesion: an overview of experimental work - Alice Suarez Kahan (ESA/ONERA)

15:15 Lunar dust contamination monitoring for operations excavating rovers in an analogue environment - Corinne Barker
15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Newton 1
16:00 Session 3: Dust properties and transport
16:00 - 16:50
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

16:00 A simulation of particulate contamination during the descent phase of the lunar lander - Armen Jaworski (CIM-mes Projekt Sp. z o.o., Warsaw, Poland)

16:25 An evolution of SPIS to simulate dust transport and accumulation on airless bodies surfaces - Fabrice Cipriani (ESA)
16:50 Session 4: Dust impact on materials
16:50 - 17:30
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

16:50 Optical and Thermal Optical Degradation of Components and Materials due to Lunar Regolith focused on Solar Cells and MLIs - Daniel Boelke

17:00 Thermo-Optical Properties Functional Surfaces Exposed to Lunar Dust Simulants - Alice Suarez Kahan (ONERA)

17:10 Effects of lunar dust deposition on thermal control surfaces – a thermal engineering perspective - Philipp Hager (ESA)

17:20 DEAR Dusty Environmental Application Research – Performance Risk Studies - Sophia Wandelt (OHB System AG)
17:30 Closing remarks

17:30 - 17:45
Room: Newton 1

17:45 Networking Drinks

17:45 - 19:00
Room: Escape
Thursday, 5 June 2025

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:00 - 09:10
Room: Newton 1
09:10 Session 5: Dust mitigation techniques
09:10 - 10:45
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

09:10 Adaptive Textiles Innovation that Attracts and Repels Regolith in Everyday Lunar Interaction - Christian Boltersdorf (ITA - RWTH Aachen) Troy Nachtigall (Eindhoven University of Technology)

09:35 Innovative Hybrid Polymeric Composites for Lunar Applications: Enhanced Dust Mitigation and Superior Self-Healing Performance - Guido Saccone (Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA))

10:00 Investigation of CO2 Snow Jet Cleaning for Spacesuits and Hardware Lunar Airlocks - Benedikt Dillmann (OHB SE)

10:10 Investigation of Methods for Removing Lunar Dust from Critical Surfaces - Sophia Wandelt (OHB)

10:20 Electro-Dynamic Shield efficiency testing in vacuum - Ya-Chun Wang (DLR) Fabrice Cipriani (ESA)
10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:05
Room: Newton 1
11:05 Session 5: Dust mitigation techniques
11:05 - 11:50
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

11:05 DEAR dusty environmental application research – Electrode for dust manipulation - Axel Müller (OHB system)

11:15 Lunar dust Contamination on space assets for exploration - Ilaria Locantore (Thales Alenia Space)

11:40 SiC a potential dust resistant protection coating for Lunar applications. - Axel Müller (OHB system)
11:50 Session 6: Dust considerations for future missions
11:50 - 12:40
Room: Newton 1
Contributions

11:50 Preliminary Dust Mitigation Concepts for LOADER: A Lunar Surface Payload Deployment System for Argonaut - Iulian Emil Juhasz (Initium Space Consulting)

12:15 Challenges and Impacts of Lunar Dust on Lunar Surface Nuclear Power Systems - Borja Pozo Larrocha (ESA)
12:40 Wrap up, additional pitches, final questions/discussion and close

12:40 - 13:00
Room: Newton 1

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