2nd International Planetary Probe Workshop
AUGUST 23 - 26, 2004
NASA Ames Conference Center
Moffett Field, California USA

Workshop Schedule Session 3: Gas Giants

August 24, Tuesday Morning


 
Chair: Bernie Bienstock Co-Chair: Jim Robinson
Scope: Invited lead talk, invited paper presentations and poster presentations on the Science, Mission Architecture, Technology, Sensors and other topics of relevance to Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus with a leaning towards papers dealing with Jupiter and Neptune.
 
Session Time Topic/Details
(Including links to the abstracts for the presentations where available)
Presentation Author(s)/Speaker (in bold)
7:30 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast at the workshop
8:00 - 8:30 NASA’s Outer Planet Exploration Plans Full Jay Bergstralh, NASA HQ
8:30 - 8:50 Project Prometheus and Future Entry Probe Missions (word) Full Dr. Thomas Spilker, JPL
8:50 - 9:10 Neptune Polar Orbiter with Probes (word) Full B. Bienstock, Boeing
D. Atkinson, University of Idaho
K. Baines, JPL
P. Mahaffy, NASA-GSFC
P. Steffes, Georgia Institute of Technology
S. Atreya, University of Michigan
A. Stern, Southwest Research Institute
H. Willenberg, Boeing
9:10 - 9:25 Atmospheric Models for Aeroentry and Aeroassist (word) Full C. G. Justus, Aleta Duvall, Vernon W. Keller, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
9:25 - 9:40 Titan Aerogravity Assist for Capture into Orbit about Saturn (word) Full Philip Ramsey and J.E. Lyne, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
9:40 - 9:55 Software Risk Identification for Interplanetary Probes (word) Full Bob Dougherty, Lockheed Martin Space Systems / San José State University
Dr. Periklis E. Papadopoulos, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San José State University
9:55 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:05 Aerothermodynamic Testing of Aerocapture and Planetary Probe Geometries in Hypersonic Ballistic-Range Environments (pdf) Full M. C. Wilder, NASA-Ames Research Center
D. C. Reda, NASA-Ames Research Center
D. W. Bogdanoff, ELORET Corporation
J. Olejniczak, NASA-Ames Research Center
10:05 - 10:10 Stagnation Point Heat Transfer with Gas Injection Cooling (pdf) Poster Benjamin Vancrayenest, CNES; von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Matthew Tran, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Douglas Fletcher, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
10:10 - 10:15 Chemistry Modeling for Aerothermodynamics and TPS Poster  
10:15 - 10:30 Direct Communication to Earth from Probes Full Scott Bolton, JPL
10:30 - 10:45 Benefits of Application of Advanced Technologies for Neptune Orbiters, Atmospheric Probes, and Triton Lander Full Alan Somers, CalTec
10:45 - 11:00 On Nonequilibrium Radiation in Hydrogen Shock Layers (word) Full Chul Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
11:00 - 11:15 Calculation of H2-He Flow with Nonequilibrium Ionization and Radiation: Interim Report (word) Full Michiko Furudate and Keun-Shik Chang, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
(presented by Chul Park)
11:15 - 11:30 Neptune's Cloud Structure (word) Full Ah San Wong and Sushil K. Atreya, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
11:30 - 12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future of Gas Giant Exploration Panel Members TBD
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch provided at workshop