Join us on the eve of the next landing on Mars with a very special lecture by Rob Manning, the Chief Engineer of JPL. 50% of all attempted landings on Mars have failed - come learn how the Mars2020 landing is trying to beat the odds!
This workshop will primarily be focused on exploring and identifying the best instrument to answer science questions, weighing technical challenges with potential scientific payout in the process.
This workshop will conceive the mission architecture to access the Martian surface (entry-descent-landing; EDL) and conduct efficient operations of multiple Mars assets.
This talk presented the efforts to study the UV exoplanet environments using existing space telescopes and describing new efforts to build dedicated UV space telescopes.
Details »This talk reviewed the OSIRIS-REx mission, which traveled to Bennu, a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016, and rendezvoused with Bennu in 2018. Sample collection from site Nightingale occurred in October 2020. The sample will return to Earth in 2023 and will be the first for a U.S. mission.
Details »Watch a panel of pre-eminent science fiction authors famous for their vivid imaginings of fantastical, fictional worlds as they describe their favorite fictional world, and then discuss the process of inventing a new world. Moderated by Phil Plait, the panel will feature Becky Chambers, Mary Robinette Kowal, John Scalzi, and Simon Guerrier.
Details »This talk presented a brief overview of the Dragonfly mission, and focused specifically on the Lander Mobility System. It provided an introduction to the lander's computing architecture and discussed the sensors and data processing used for mobility.
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