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2A

session 2A

Title: Moon Exploration – Part 1
type: oral
Description: This session will address current and future lunar missions. The session will address orbital missions, robotic surface missions, as well as life sciences on the Moon, resource utilisation and preparatory activities for future solar system exploration.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C4.5

IPC members

Co-Chair: Prof. Bernard Foing, ILEWG "EuroMoonMars", The Netherlands;
Co-Chair: Dr. David Korsmeyer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center, United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Pierre-Alexis Joumel, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany;
Rapporteur: Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor, Avalon Space, Canada;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	ispace Mission 2 & Tenacious: the First European Rover	10		Mr. Antoine Bocquier		France
2	10:25	Tenacious: Lessons from ispace’s Mission 2 Rover Operation	10		Ms. Sophia Casanova	ispace, inc.	Luxembourg
3	10:35	VIPER SCIENCE OPERATIONS: OPTIMIZING LUNAR EXPLORATION RETURN THROUGH REAL-TIME SCIENCE DECISIONING SYSTEMS	10		Dr. Darlene Lim	NASA Ames Research Center	United States
4	10:45	Rover Development Progress for the Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer Mission to Gruithuisen Domes	10	confirmed	Dr. Justin Lawrence	Honeybee Robotics	United States
5	10:55	Russian lunar science program: missions, experiments and integration approach.	10		Prof. Anatoli Petrukovich	Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)	Russian Federation
6	11:05	ILOA Moon Mission Update October 2025: Pioneering Work Toward Lunar Observatory and Communications Flagship ILO-1 and Backup ILO-2	10		Mr. Steve Durst	International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA)	United States
7	11:15	Enabling Exploration with GNSS: Results of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)	10		Mr. Joel Parker	NASA	United States
8	11:25	Update on Taiwan's lunar payload development and its outsourced transportation services	10		Dr. Shin-Fa Lin	Taiwan Space Agency (TASA)	Taipei
9	11:35	Qosmosys Zeus-X, a Lunar-Based Multipurpose Platform for In Situ Research	10		Mr. Francois Dubrulle	Qosmosys	Singapore, Republic of
10	11:45	Lunar REY: development of an automated instrument to study engineered organisms and crop production on the Moon	10		Dr. Sergio Santa Maria	NASA Ames Research Center	United States
11	11:55	Australia's Moon to Mars Initiative- Technical outcomes and lessons learned	10		Mr. Arvind Ramana	Australian Space Agency	Australia
12	12:05	Validation and Verification of the Miniature X-ray Fluorescence Payload (MiniXRF) for ISRU	10		Ms. Molly Kirkpatrick	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Australia
13	12:15	JAXA's study and technology development which enables lunar ISRU activity	10		Mr. Jun Shimada	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
14	12:25	On orbit experience and challenges of operating CHANDRAYAN-3 ROVER NAVIGATION CAMERA	10		Mr. JAYANTA LAHA	Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS)-ISRO	India