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Project Title: Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Satellites Panel

PIN: SSBX-L-08-08-F         

Major Unit:
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Sub Unit:
DEPS Space Studies Board

RSO:
Smith, David

Subject/Focus Area:



Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Satellites Panel
September 21, 2009 - September 23, 2009
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
100 Academy Dr.
Irvine, California


If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Dionna Williams
Email: dwilliams@nas.edu
Phone: (202) 334-3477
Fax: (202) 334-3701


Agenda:

PRELIMINARY AGENDA (As of 9/16/09)
September 21-23, 2009

Monday, September 21, 2009

OPEN SESSION

8:45 a.m.
NRC Study on Radioisotope Power Systems
Ralph McNutt
Applied Physics Laboratory

9:30 a.m.
Planetary Protection for the Icy Satellites
Cassie Conley
NASA Headquarters

10:15 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m.
Enceladus Sample-return Missions
Peter Tsou
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:30 a.m.
Mission Architecture Options for Enceladus Exploration
Nathan Strange
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

12:15 p.m.
Committee Discussion
(Lunch will be served in the Beckman Refectory, committee discussion continues)

1:00 p.m.
Enceladus Flagship Study
John Spencer

1:45 p.m.
Reducing the Challenges Posed by Titan Missions
Kim Reh/John Elliott
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

2:45 p.m.
Break

3:00 p.m.
The DSN: Current and Future Capabilities
Barry Geldzahler
NASA Headquarters

4:00 p.m.
Uranian Satellite Science
Elizabeth Turtle

4:45 p.m. Open Session Ends

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

OPEN SESSION

7:30 a.m.
Room Opens
(Breakfast available in the Beckman Refectory)

8:30 a.m.
Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter
Jean-Pierre Lebreton/Michele Dougherty
European Space Agency/Imperial College

9:30 a.m.
CNES’s Titan Montgolfiere Studies
Andre Vargas
CNES

10:00 a.m.
Break

10:15 a.m.
Reducing the Challenges Posed by a Europa Mission
Karla Clark/Rob Lock
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:00 am
open session ends

NOTES
Note to presenters: If your presentation contains unpublished data, ITAR controlled and/or other sensitive information, please be aware that the open sessions at the meeting will be webcast and presentation materials given to the committee will be posted on a publicly accessible website. Please edit your presentations accordingly.

Beckman Center: Is located on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. See the following website for more information, including directions: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/beckman/

Webcast Access: Webcast at http://nasa-nai.acrobat.com/psdecadal/. To receive audio you must call 866-606-4717 (domestic) or 1-309-495-0763 (international). Access code 7078222.


Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
John Spencer
David Stevenson
Glenn Fountain
Caitlin Griffith
Krishan Khurana
Chris McKay
Louise Proctor
Gerald Schubert
Tom Spilker
Elizabeth Turtle
Hunter Waite
Francis Nimmo

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
White papers, writing assignments, next meeting date, missions to go through technical assessment.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
White papers, which are public documents and posted on the internet.

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: September 27, 2009



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