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Space exploration and International cooperation – June 21-22

Space exploration and International cooperation – June 21-22. Washington D.C. Italian Contribution to Mars Express. MARSIS Principal Investigator PFS Principal Investigator OMEGA Co-Investigator ASPERA Co-Investigator HRSC Co-Investigator. SHARAD – agosto 2005.

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Space exploration and International cooperation – June 21-22

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  1. Space exploration and International cooperation – June 21-22 Washington D.C

  2. Italian Contribution to Mars Express • MARSIS Principal Investigator • PFS Principal Investigator • OMEGA Co-Investigator • ASPERA Co-Investigator • HRSC Co-Investigator

  3. SHARAD – agosto 2005

  4. Mars Express first important results

  5. ESA Rosetta Mission – Italian participation

  6. NASA/ESA/ASI mission Cassini - Huyghens October 2002 May 2004 Nature425, 374 - 376 (25 Sep 2003) Letters to Nature A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft B. Bertotti, L. Iess, P. Tortora

  7. NASA/ASI on-going consultations • Joint statement between NASA and ASI signed. • Joint Steering Committee to be set up. • Issue of a NASA/ASI joint report due 4 months after KickOff. • KickOff date under finalization

  8. ASI approach • Task force appointed • Key people involved • First official results expected mid-September • Strategy defined • Right now, building up the ASI roadmap

  9. ASI approach (cont’d) • Strategy based on Science-driven mission approach • Technology developments devoted to: * matching the scientific goal * allowing to reach the target planet and to operate on the target (enabling) • Several areas of interest under scrutiny • Discussions on-going at ESA level to boost the European Exploration program

  10. ASI approach (cont’d) • We must take advantage from the lessons learned from the Italian contribution to ISS both through our participation to ESA programs and the NASA/ASI bilateral MOU. • More in general, ASI would take advantage also from the past and present experience being both a key member state of ESA and an hystorical Partner of NASA.

  11. ASI approach (cont’d) • Based on that experience, ASI is more than convinced that the worldwide exploration program should start since the beginning as a cooperative program, a program in which the high-level requirements should be discussed and agreed among all the key partners. • No reason neither to have overlapping programs or to develop parallel programs, making the same activities in different places of the space world.

  12. ASI approach (cont’d) • We expect clear key roles for all players and partners. This goal can be achieved only having the potential key players participating at system level definition phase of the overall exploration program. • This is the right place to start discussing ways and means to cooperate, and to do it.

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