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    Title

    Moon Exploration – Part 2

    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

    15:00

    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

    15:00

    Latest Development Status on Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX)

    10

    Dr. Hiroyasu Mizuno

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

    Japan

    2

    15:10

    Initial Design for Smart Micro Lunar Exploration Rovers for Intelligent Collaborative Tasking

    10

    Dr. Halil Ersin Soken

    Middle East Technical University

    Türkiye

    3

    15:20

    Locomotion of small hopping rover LEV-1 and application for future lunar lava tube exploration

    10

    Dr. Takao Maeda

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

    Japan

    4

    15:30

    COMPOUNDING LUNAR SCIENCE ENABLED BY COMMERCIAL MOBILITY PLATFORMS

    10

    Mr. Tim Mounsey

    Lunar Outpost

    United States

    5

    15:40

    Cooperative Heterogenous Robotic System for Lunar South Pole Mapping and Exploration

    10

    Mrs. Zixuan Zhang

    Cranfield University, UK

    United Kingdom

    6

    15:50

    Highlights from EuroMoonMars and EuroSpaceHub 2024-2025: research, Technology, Astronautics, Innovation

    10

    Prof. Bernard Foing

    ILEWG "EuroMoonMars"

    The Netherlands

    7

    16:00

    earth-moon observation cubesat: payload system development and integration

    10

    Mr. Ulrich Ny Aina N'Tchougan Sonou

    ILEWG "EuroMoonMars"

    The Netherlands

    8

    16:10

    EURO2MOON: Leverage Lunar Resources Utilisation to Foster International Collaboration and Benefit Sustainability in Space and Earth

    10

    Mr. Pierre-Alexis Joumel

    Airbus Defence and Space

    Germany

    9

    16:20

    FFLD Everyday Hardware Fabrication to Support Lunar Activities: Advancing Sustainable Lunar Exploration Through Fused Fiber Layer Deposition 3D Printing Using Lunar Regolith

    10

    Dr. Anna Barbara Imhof

    Liquifer Systems Group (LSG)

    Austria

    10

    16:30

    Groundbreaking approach to in-situ measurements on the Moon’s surface

    10

    Prof. Pawel Knapkiewicz

    Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

    Poland

    11

    16:40

    Development and derisking of instruments for Moon exploration by CNES

    10

    Mr. Charles Yana

    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

    France

    12

    16:50

    Leaps and bounds: Roo-ver, Australia's first lunar rover mission

    10

    Dr. Samuel Webster

    EPE Oceania Pty Ltd.

    Australia

    13

    17:00

    Efforts Toward Realization of Lunar Infrastructure and Logistics Operation

    10

    Mr. Takeshi Kai

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

    Japan

    14

    17:10

    Lunar Lava-tube Exploration Mission and Technologies with small AI robots under Japan's Moonshot R&D Program

    10

    Prof.Dr. Yasuharu Kunii

    Chuo University

    Japan

    15

    17:20

    Vertical landing simulation of a legged drone system for lava tube exploration

    10

    Ms. Irene Terlizzi

    University of Padova, CISAS – “G. Colombo” Center of Studies and Activities for Space,

    Italy