2nd ESA International Workshop on GNC for Interplanetary and Small-Body Missions (GNCISB)

12 Nov 2015, 09:00 → 13 Nov 2015, 21:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Einstein room (ESTEC)

Celia Yabar (Moltek for ESA), Guillermo Ortega (ESA), Massimo Casasco (European Space Agency)

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS and ALL PRESENTATIONS are now available for download. Please use the link at the bottom of the page.

 

 

The ESA International Workshop on GNC for Interplanetary and Small-Body Missions (GNCISB) is an event organized by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The workshop will be held at ESTEC – the European Space Research and Technology Centre of ESA on 12-13 of November 2015.

The main objective of the workshop is that of gathering world-wide experts in all Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) related disciplines to review the challenges and achievements from past successful interplanetary and small body activities (missions, mission studies, research and development work, hardware developments, etc.), discuss the current needs raised by the upcoming missions to interplanetary and small body destinations, and establish shared priorities and roadmaps for future endeavours.

Based on the 1st workshop held in 2009, participation of most European space industries and other space agencies is expected.

Other key objectives of the workshop are:

• To bring together engineers, scientists, researchers from the industry, Research Institutes, Universities, Space Agencies working on the development or the use of GNC systems for interplanetary and small body missions and to share experience obtained in development, implementation and operational use.
• To provide an international forum to discuss GNC techniques and technology involved in missions to planets, asteroids or comets.
• To identify common approaches and/or differences between techniques and technologies employed in different industries or agencies and to understand the rationale lying behind the potential differences.
• To identify technological gaps where new solutions need to be developed – or where existing ones need to be extended – and to bring together the people to foster such initiatives.
• To pave the way for the success of future interplanetary and small-body missions.

 

All presentations (ZIP file) PresentationsIndico.zip

Book of abstracts GNCISB_Programme.pdf

Thursday, 12 November

09:00 → 09:45 Registration

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome and Introduction Keynote

09:45 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Dr Guillermo Ortega (ESA)

10:00 → 12:30 Session #1: GNC for current missions

10:00 → 10:30 The Rosetta Mission – Challenges in Deep Space

Speaker: Gunther Lautenschlaeger (Airbus Defence & Space Germany)

10:30 → 11:00 BepiColombo – “Mission Impossible” made Possible

Speaker: Tommy STRANDBERG (Airbus Defense & Space)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Guidance Navigation and Control for the ESA JUICE Mission

Speaker: Pascal REGNIER (Airbus Defence & Space)

12:00 → 12:30 Guidance Navigation and Control of ExoMars

Speaker: Mario Montagna (Thales Alenia Space Italy)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Application of Autonomous Vision Based Navigation in AIM mission

Speakers: Andrea Pellacani (GMV), Joris Naudet (Qintiq Space Belgium)

13:30 → 17:00 Session #2: GNC for future missions

14:00 → 14:30 GNC for Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM)

Speaker: Tiago Hormigo (Spin.Works)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:30 Guidance Navigation and Control for Phobos SR

Speaker: Ambroise Bidaux- Sokolowski (GMV Poland)

15:30 → 16:00 Guidance Navigation and Control for Lunar Landing

Speaker: Uwe Soppa (Airbus Defence & Space Germany)

16:00 → 16:30 Flight Operations feed-back on GNC systems for interplanetary missions

Speaker: Christoph Steiger (ESOC)

16:30 → 17:00 Wrap up of day #1

Friday, 13 November

09:00 → 09:30 Guidance Techniques and Trajectories of Interplanetary and Small-body Mission - DEIMOS Role and Perspectives

Speaker: Mariano SANCHEZ (Deimos Space)

09:00 → 11:00 Session #3: GNC technologies

09:30 → 10:00 Developments of optical instruments for planetary exploration at cosine

Speaker: Marco Esposito (Cosine BV)

10:00 → 10:30 GNC for small bodies & interplanetary missions (Thales Alenia Space France vision)

Speaker: Mario Montagna (Thales Alenia Space Italy)

10:30 → 11:00 FDIR process and product experience at Airbus

Speaker: Gunther Lautenschlaeger (Airbus Defence & Space Germany)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Future GNC technology for ESA interplanetary and small-body missions

Speaker: Massimo Casasco (European Space Agency)

11:30 → 13:15 Session #4: GNC technologies

12:00 → 13:15 Round Table

Speaker: Celia Yabar (ESA)

13:15 → 13:30 Closure and farewell