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European Workshop on Lunar Landers Presentations and Reports

The European Workshop on Lunar Landers was held 15 and 16 December 2005 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The presentations and reports from the workshop will be added here as they become available. They can be downloaded in pdf format.

15 December, ESTEC meeting room Fresnel
14:00	Introduction to the workshop: goals and context (International Lunar Exploration Working Group ILEWG, SMART-1, LEDA/Euromoon, European Lunar Lander WG) Bernard Foing
14:15	Summary of SMART-1 instruments results and relevance for future missions AMIE, SIR, DCIXS/XSM: PI teams
14:45	ESA/ESTEC Lunar Studies Scott Hovland (ESA HME)	PDF
15:15	Lunar mission studies and Instrument technologies Studies Danielle Renton (ESA SCI-A)
15:45	Short contributed papers:
	Challenges for a European lunar lander and Technologies for future science and exploration
	F. Câmara "Hazard Avoidance Techniques for Vision Based Landing"
	Y. Gao, M. Sweeting "Low-Cost Lunar Sample Return Micro-Mission - A Sketch"
	D.Talboys & M.Sims "Instrumentation for Lunar Science and Exploration"	PDF
	Moon Geophysics, Geology, Geochemistry, Search for polar ices and volatiles
	I. Crawford "Review of scientific opportunities for lunar landers"
	Ph. Lognonne, T. Spohn, J. Oberst "Lunar Geophysical and Environment Package"	PDF
	W. Thomas Pike "A seismic sensor for shallow sounding of the lunar regolith"
	M.S. Bentley et al. "POLAR: PSSRI Ongoing Lunar Activities & Research"	PDF
	Life sciences on the Moon (discussion) N. Leys, D. van der Straeten, J. Mas, P. Ehrenfreund, G. Kminek, et al.
16:45	Possible mission profile and model payload
17:00 - 18:15	Splinter meetings in three groups: Techno: Technologies for European lunar lander and future science/exploration Geo/Ice: Geophysics, Geology, Geochemistry and Ice Life: Life Sciences and Environment on the Moon
18:30	Workshop reception and poster session. Location: Erasmus Auditorium. Posters M.S. Bentley, A.J. Ball, I.P. Wright, J.C. Zarnecki "In situ measurement of space weathering in support of remote mineralogy" F. Câmara "Azard Avoidance Techniques for Vision Based Landing" Y. Gao, M. Sweeting "Low-Cost Lunar Sample Return Micro-Mission - A Sketch" D.Talboys & M.Sims "Instrumentation for Lunar Science and Exploration" I. Crawford "Review of scientific opportunities for lunar landers" Ph. Lognonne, T. Spohn, J. Oberst "Lunar Geophysical and Environment Package" W. Thomas Pike "A seismic sensor for shallow sounding of the lunar regolith" Lunar Social Event: Moon Christmas Concert Chamber Music Ensemble: The (Broken) Concert Moon Christmas Carols

16 December, ESTEC, Erasmus Auditorium

9:00

Goals for Lunar landers missions:

Lunar Landers & Exploration goals

B. Hufenbach
"European long-term strategy for space exploration and the role of the Moon/ robotic lunar missions"

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Lunar Landers & Cosmic vision 2015-2025 themes
- What are the conditions for life and planetary formation?
- How does the Solar System work?
- What are the fundamental laws of the Universe?
- How did the Universe originate and what is it made of?

J. Oberst et al.
"Call for a long-lived Global Lunar Geophysical Network"

Astrobiology on the Moon
(moderator: P. Ehrenfreund)