On the left: the BepiColombo spacecraft, the MORE - Mercury Orbiter Radioscience Experiment - logo and team. BepiColombo is an ESA mission devoted to the scientific exploration of Mercury. Launch: 20 October 2018.
J.B. Jones, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Navigation Team Chief, Cassini mission
J.L. Webster, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Chief Operations Manager, Cassini mission
R.T. Mitchell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ret.), Former Project Manager of the Galileo and Cassini missions
Space Systems Engineering Lectures - BepiColombo: the Challenge of a Mission to Mercury
Jan Van Casteren, ESA ESTEC, former Project Manager of the mission BepiColombo.
Room 15, May 3 and 4, 10:15-11:45 am, May 5, 10:15-11:00 am
BepiColombo is an international mission for the exploration of planet Mercury, using two orbiters equipped with scientific instruments. The energy required to bring a spacecraft to Mercury is very large, hence a novel mission design with electric propulsion together with planetary gravity assists is used. The combination of a harsh thermal environment close to the Sun and the tight launch mass constraint, drives the need for new technologies and makes the mission implementation a true system engineering challenge. The lectures touch upon some main system engineering subjects like mission design, specifications, system budgets, technology development and verification.
Space Systems Engineering Lectures - The science and engineering of the Juno mission
Scott Bolton, Southwest Research Institute, Principal Investigator of the Juno mission to Jupiter.
Lecture hall 41 May 3, 10:15-11:45
Lecture hall 38 May 3, 12:00-13:30
Jack Connerney, NASA GSFC, Deputy Principal Investigator of the Juno mission to Jupiter.
Lecture hall 41 May 2 10:15-11:45
Lecture hall 38 May 4, 12:00-13:30
Space Systems Engineering Lectures - "Cassini and the Golden Age of Space Exploration"
Images, Memoires and Details from a fantastic mission.
Charles Elachi, Caltech, former director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Lecture hall 7, March 6 10:00-12:00
Space Systems Engineering Lectures - "NASA’s Planetary Missions: From Design to Disposal"
Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
Lecture hall 7, March 7 10:00-12:00
Lecture hall 7, March 7 12:00-14:00 (replica)
Mercury