Impressum

Program

Sunday, June 7.2015
18:00
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21:00
Get together (with buffet at the "Lichtenberg Keller")
Monday, June 8. 2015
Non-autonomous technologies for spacecraft navigation
Chair: Reinhold Bertrand (ESOC,Darmstadt, Germany)
9:20
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9:30
Welcome
W. Becker (MPE, Germany)
9:30
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10:30
ESTRACK: Technical Aspects, Performance, Limitations and Future Prospects
Invited Talk: Marko Butkovic (ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany)
10:30
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11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
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12:00
Rosetta optical navigation
Mathias Lauer (ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany)
12:00 - 12:15 Conference Photo (in front of the lecture hall)
12:00
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14:00
Lunch Break
Optical Navigation, GNSS for Space Applications
Chair: A. Jessner (Max-Planck Inst. for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany)
14:00
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15:00
NASA Experience with Automated and Autonomous Navigation in Deep Space
Joseph E. Riedel (NASA/JPL, USA)
15:00
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15:30
Orbital Stellar Stereoscopic Observatory Project and its Autonomous Navigation in the Heliocentric Transfer and Operational Orbits
Markiyan Chubey (Pulkovo Astron. Observatory of Russian Scie. Acad., Russia)
15:30
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16:00
Coffee Break
16:00
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16:30
Autonomous Navigation for KaNaRiA. A Mission into the Asteroid Main Belt
Graciela Gonzalez Peytavi (ISTA, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
16:30
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16:50
Welcome by the Heraeus Foundation
Dr. E. Dreisigacker (Heraeus-Foundation, Hanau, Germany)
18:30
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20:00
Dinner
Tuesday, June 9. 2015
Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation using Pulsars
Chair: Werner Becker (MPE, Garching, Germany)
9:00
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10:00
Autonomous Navigation using X-ray pulsars
Mike G. Bernhardt (MPE, Munich, Germany)
10:00
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10:30
Towards Practical Autonomous Deep Space Navigation Using X-ray Pulsar Timing: Instrumentation Aspects
Adrian Martindale (Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, UK)
10:30
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11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
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12:00
Future X-ray Optics for Pulsar Navigation
Richard Willingale (Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, UK)
12:00
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14:00
Lunch Break
Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation using Pulsars cont.
Chair: John Pye (Space Research Centre Uni. Leicester, U.K.)
14:00
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15:00
X-ray detectors with high temporal resolution suitable for pulsar navigation
Norbert Meidinger (MPE, Munich, Germany)
15:00
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15:30
Towards Practical Autonomous Deep Space Navigation Using X-Ray Pulsars: Overview and Simulations of Navigation Errors
Setnam Shemar (National Physical Laboratory, UK)
15:30
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16:00
Coffee Break
16:00
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17:00
Pulsar Timing Surveys and their Application to Spacecraft Navigation
Michael Kramer (MPIfR Bonn, Germany)
17:00
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18:00
Technical Requirements for Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation using Radio Pulsars
Axel Jessner (MPIfR Bonn, Germany)
18:30
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20:00
Dinner
Wednesday, June 10. 2015
Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation using Pulsars cont.
Chair: Luciano Nicastro (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy)
9:00
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10:00
NICER mission overview, objectives, and status
Keith Gendreau (NASA, USA)
10:00
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10:30
The NRL Program in X-ray Navigation / Autonomy
Kent Wood (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
10:30
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11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
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12:00
Timing Noise and Glitches: Limitations on Pulsar Timing for Spacecraft Navigation
Shuang-Nan Zhang (Inst. of High-Energy Physics, China)
12:00
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13:00
Lunch Break
13:00
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22:00
Afternoon Excursion + Conferenz dinner
Thursday, June 11. 2015
Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation using Pulsars cont.
Chair: Carola Tiede (Hochschule Muenchen, Germany)
9:00
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10:00
NASA technology development strategy for autonomous spacecraft navigation
Ronald J. Litchford (NASA, USA)
10:00
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10:30
Characterization of Pulsar Sources for SEXTANT
Paul Ray (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
10:30
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11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
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12:00
Applications and Mission Scenarios using Pulsar Based Navigation
Chuck Hisamoto (ASTER Labs, USA)
12:00
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14:00
Lunch Break
Relativistic Satellite Positioning, & LiAISON
Chair: Uros Kostic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
14:00
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15:00 Relativistic satellite positioning
Andrea Gomboc (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
15:00
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15:30 The Synge world function in relativistic positioning systems
Anna Heffernan (Advanced Concepts Team, ESA, ESTEC, NL)
15:30
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15:45 Concluding Remarks
18:30
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20:00 Dinner (for those leaving on Friday)
POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS
AXP-DNS Proposal: Towards an autonomous deep space navigation system in DLR-RY
Deborah N. Aguilera
Progress in determining ties between kinematic and dynamic reference frames through differential very long baseline interferometry
James M. Anderson
Autonomous small spacecraft missions
Michael Barbosu
A comprehensive RVD simulation environment for GNC algorithms design and implementation
Matteo Dentis
The glitch behavior of PSR B0540-69 with X-ray observations of RXTE
Mingyu Ge
The time transfer function in relativistic positioning systems
Christopher Gerekos
Differential deployable autonomous radio navigation (ΔDARN)
Michael Hecht
Influence of the Galactic gravitational field on the positional accuracy of reference sources of ICRF
Tatiana Larchenkova
MVN M2 - a new timing experiment on board the ISS
Alexander Lutovinov
Pulsar-based navigation with deep space probes
Walid Majid
Dependance of the Crab main peak arrival time on energy
Sergei Molkov
X-ray pulsar navigation testbed based on grid controlled X-ray modulation source
Lizhi Sheng
Design and application of X-ray optics for pulsar navigation
Feng Su
Positioning error due to the uncertainty of the pulsar parameters
Shijie Zheng

Last updated: August 14., 2015