Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
8:15 a.m. |
VEXAG Technology Forum |
Pat Beauchamp |
8:30 a.m. |
Overview of Entry, Descent and Landing Issues |
Michelle Munk |
8:45 a.m. |
Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET) |
E. Venkatapathy |
9:15 a.m. |
Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) |
P. Wercinski, E. Venkatapathy, P. Gage,
A. Cassell, B. Yount, D. Prabhu, B. Smith,
J. Arnold, A. Makino, K. Peterson,
C. Kruger, C. Kazemba, T. Squire,
R. Chinnapongse |
9:45 a.m. |
Overview of Entry, Descent and Landing Issues |
Michelle Munk |
9:55 a.m. |
Venus Aerial Platform Technology |
Jeffery L. Hall and James Cutts |
11:00 a.m. |
Communication & Navigation Support to Venus Missions |
Steve Townes |
11:30 a.m. |
Radioisotope and Power Supplies - Planetary Technologies |
Leonard Dudzinski |
1:00 p.m. |
Power System Technologies for Future Venus Missions |
Rao Surampudi, Satish Khanna,
Jonathan Grandidier, Kumar Bugga |
1:30 p.m. |
Extreme Environment Developments |
Gary W. Hunter, Elizabeth Kolawa
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3:45 p.m. |
Facilities Overview |
Tibor Kremic |
4:00 p.m. |
Venus Technology Plan |
Pat Beauchamp and Jim Cutts |
5:30 p.m. |
Poster- Experimental Duplication of Venus Atmospheric Entry Flow |
G. de Crombrugghe, R. Morgan,
T. J. McIntyre, F. Zander |
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
8:15 a.m. |
Welcome and Objectives |
Lori Glaze |
8:45 a.m. |
Venus Express Mission Update |
Hakan Svedhem |
9:00 a.m. |
Akatsuki Mission Update |
Masato Nakamura, Tomoaki Toda,
Nobuaki Ishii, Takeshi Imamura |
9:15 a.m. |
Venus investigations after Venus Express: Venera-D mission |
L. Zasova |
9:30 a.m. |
International Collaborations for Venus Exploration |
Sanjay Limaye |
9:45 a.m. |
ESA’s Science Programme Opportunities for Venus Missions |
Colin Wilson |
10:30 a.m. |
Centennial Challenges Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate |
Larry Cooper |
Open Microphone Presentations |
10:50 a.m. |
Open Mic 1 – Effect of the Artemis superplume on the surface |
Hansen & Olive (2010 Geology) |
10:50 a.m. |
Open Mic 2 – Development of Extreme Temperature Motor for Venus |
Kris Zacny |
10:50 a.m. |
Open Mic 3 – Research on Mars with the applicability to Venus |
Nicki Button |
10:50 a.m. |
Open Mic 4 – Viscoelastic Feformation of Mead Crater: Implications
for the Thermal History of Venus and Constraints for Rheology and Crustal Thickness |
Saman Karimi |
10:50 a.m. |
Open Mic 5 – Modelling the Venus Clouds and Upper Haze Using CARMA 3.0 |
Peter Gao, Xi Zhang, David Crisp,
Charles G. Bardeen, and Yuk Yung |
1:15 p.m. |
VEXAG Goals, Objectives, and Investigations Document |
Robert Herrick, Kevin Baines, Lori Glaze,
Bob Grimm, Walter Kiefer, Kevin McGouldrick, Sue Smrekar, Con Tsang |
3:00 p.m. |
Venus Exploration Roadmap |
Doug Stetson |
4:15 p.m. |
Plans for Finalizing the VEXAG Technology Plan |
Pat Beauchamp, Jim Cutts |
Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
8:15 a.m. |
NASA’s Planetary Science Program Overview and Restructuring
ROSES R&A Program |
Jim Green, Jonathon Rall |
10:15 a.m. |
Venus Exploration Targets Workshop |
Buck Sharpton, Lori Glaze |
10:45 a.m. |
Comparative Planetary Climates Conference (CCTP-2) |
Jeff Hollingsworth |
11:00 a.m. |
International Cooperation VEXAG Focus Group |
Sanjay Limaye, Jim Cutts |