Over the past few months, several moon missions have been launched, both by institutions and private companies. This new "moon race", fueled by the Artemis program, offered a recent significant achievement with India's Chandrayaan-3 landing, being the second country to achieve successful soft landing in the 21st century and the 4th in history.  The objective of this seminar is to give an overview of astrodynamics advances applied to state-of-the-art on-going and future ...

This mini-seminar is a single presentation, this presentation will focus on the Clipper mission and will be given by S. Campagnola. The presentation will take place in the ESOC Press Conference in Darmstadt. For those who have access to the CNES site in Toulouse, room N250 in the GALOIS building will broadcast the seminar. For all the others, a broadcast via livestorm is possible after prior registration  HERE Europa Clipper is NASA’s next flagship mission ...

Recent innovations have made possible the use of autonomous on-board vision-based systems for space missions. Cameras are relatively cheap, light and low-power sensors which can provide an important amount of data for estimating the navigation state of a spacecraft. The drawback of course is that this information has to be extracted through complex algorithms, often running on high-performance hardware and requiring the use of a large number of images -either ...

The COMET-ORB (expert community on space dynamics) is pleased to announce that a seminar on small bodies (structure, physical parameters, ephemerides, and more) will take place on April 11th 2023. This one-day seminar will give the opportunity to many specialists to present their work about the physical aspects of small bodies (comets, asteroids, natural satellites, etc.), and also on some space mission aspects (instruments, orbits, etc…).  The presentations will be related ...

Europe has a long tradition of space exploration. It ranges from the vicinity of the Earth (Smart-1 around the Moon) to the most distant landing ever performed in history (Cassini/Huygens) through the journey to a comet (Rosetta/Philae). European interplanetary missions cover the full range of applications: Sun, planets, satellites, comets, asteroids. The objective of this seminar is to perform a state-of-the-art of on-going and future missions. To fit with a one-day ...