session 2C

Title: Moon Exploration – Part 3
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: 2025-10-03
Time: 13:45
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: Dr. Sylvie Espinasse, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands;
Rapporteur: Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor, Avalon Space, Canada;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
2	13:45	Study of the lunar south pole resources through remote sensing in support of the upcoming missions	10		Ms. Roksana Sheikholmolouki	University of Sherbrooke	Canada
3	13:55	Conceptual Design of Communication System for the Pressurized Rover “Lunar Cruiser”	10		Ms. Aya Asamura	TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION	Japan
4	14:05	TIME: Timeline for Immediate Moon Expeditions [TIME]	10		Mr. Madhu Thangavelu	University of Southern California	United States
5	14:15	Exploring Lunar Lava Tubes with Legged Robotics (asagumo): Testing in Iceland for STEM, Space Exploration, and Moon Missions	10		Mr. Pavlo Tanasyuk	Spacebit Global Ltd	United Kingdom
6	14:25	Advancing Project Vayusathi A Sustainable Inflatable Lunar Habitat for Long-Duration Missions	10	confirmed	Mr. Gourav Mohanan	Dayananda Sagar University	India
7	14:35	Autonomous Swarm Robotics for the Recycling of Lunar Space Debris: A Sustainable Approach to In-Situ Resource Utilization	10		Mr. Andrea Santamaria	Politecnico di Torino	Italy
8	14:45	A flower in Space for the Moon	10		Prof. Irene Lia Schlacht	Space Renaissance International	Italy
9	14:55	Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture: First Mission and Payload Description	10		Dr. Graham Dorrington	RMIT University, Australia	Australia
10	15:05	Advancing Regolith-Based Agriculture Through Simulant Characterization and Hydraulic Modeling	10		Ms. Cassidy Brozovich	The Ohio State University	United States
11	15:15	Africa's Lunar Radio Astronomy Mission: Africa2Moon	10		Dr. Adriana Marais	Foundation for Space Development South Africa	South Africa
12	15:25	Analog Study of Silicic Volcanism Using a Handheld Gamma-Ray Neutron Spectrometer at the San Francisco Volcanic Field, Arizona	10		Ms. Deniz Ölçek	University of Oslo	Norway
13	15:35	constructing shuttle-mode architecture in cislunar space for reusable flight vehicles	10		Mr. Chenyu Zhang	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)	China
14	15:45	Costa Rican Laboratory for Space Systems Operations with Ground Simulator in Support of Rover Mobility Evaluation (LABCOS)	10		Ms. Nicolle Gamboa Mena	Descubre Robótica	Costa Rica
15	15:55	Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) Project: Advancing Oxygen Extraction for Artemis Lunar Surface Operations	10		Mr. Koorosh Araghi	NASA	United States
16*	16:05	Lessons learned from the simulation of lunar analog Colony 1	10		Dr. Agata [email protected]	Analog Astronaut Training Center	Poland
17*	16:05	Development of Analytical Tools for Lunar Mineralogy Using Multi-Source In Situ Remote Sensing Data	10		Mr. Alex Camon	Université de Sherbrooke	Canada
18*	16:05	Promises and challenges of robotic quadrupeds for space exploration	10		Ms. Annika Schmidt	German Aerospace Center (DLR)	Germany
19*	16:05	Technical maturation of Australian lunar exploration robotic capabilities	10		Ms. Katie Doyle	Lunar Outpost	Australia
20*	16:05	Human-Robot Partnerships Will Enable Future Exploration of the Lunar Surface and Subsurface	10		Dr. Jennifer Blank	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center /Blue Marble Space Institute of Science	United States
21*	16:05	Lunar radiation monitoring on-board of the micro-rover Lunar Zebro.	10		Dr. Alessandra Menicucci	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	The Netherlands
22*	16:05	Combining laser-ablation-based spectroscopy and spectrometry techniques for the detection of light elements on the Moon surface	10		Ms. Inna Uwarowa	Lightigo Space	Luxembourg

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