Workshop Schedule Session 1: Outlook for Probe Missions

August 23, Monday Morning


Chair: Dave Atkinson	Co-Chair: Rich Young
Scope: An Opportunity to dialogue with the Institutional and Program Leaders; their perspectives, challenges and vision; and probe communities exciting outlook on the Science and Technology aspects of Probes.

Session Time	Topic/Details (Including links to the abstracts for the presentations where available)	Presentation	Author(s)/Speaker (in bold)
7:30 - 9:00	Registration (Continental Breakfast at the workshop)
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome, Introduction and Orientation	Full	Ethiraj Venkatapathy, NASA ARC
9:15 - 9:45	Now, the Time for the Probes and In-Situ Science	Full	Scott Hubbard, Director, NASA Ames Research Center
9:45 - 10:15	NASA's Planetary Exploration Program	Full	Orlando Figuero, NASA HQ (presented by Jim Robinson, NASA HQ)
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:00	ESA's Mars and Solar System Exploration Program - Objectives and Plans	Full	Gerhard Schwehm, ESA-ESTEC
11:00 - 11:30	Basic Questions About the Solar System: The Need for Probes	Full	Andy Ingersol, CalTech, on behalf of the Science Community
11:30 - 12:00	Technology Challenges and Opportunities For Probe Missions	Full	Jim Cutts, JPL Ethiraj Venkatapathy, NASA ARC Elizabeth Kolawa, JPL Michelle Munk, NASA LaRC Paul Wercinski, NASA ARC Bernie Laub, NASA ARC on behalf of the Technology Community
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch provided at workshop