This week will be the International Workshop On Instrumentation for Planetary Missions for 2025.
From 4-6 August, in Boulder, Colorado (UC-Boulder LASP), scientists and engineers will meet on planetary mission science instruments and other payloads.
This year, there’s a big effort on Uranus. The outer planet came out favorably in the last Decadal Survey, partly because we’ve visited Jupiter and Saturn. Another part is that we are seeing lots of exoplanetary systems with Uranus/Neptune analogs, which we want to understand- if we have one of them in our own system, we should examine it as a lynchpin to the others. Of course, there are general sessions on general planetary hardware and related technologies.
Contact: harriet.george@lasp.colorado.edu
Previous workshops: https://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/IPM/
Schedule highlights (https://lasp.colorado.edu/meetings/ipm-2025/ipm-2025-schedule/):
Monday
Keynote presentation by Erica Montbach on the future of planetary science
Xu Wang: Studies of Electrostatic Dust Lofting and its Instrumentation for Lunar and Asteroid Missions
Tuesday
Asteroid panel discussion with panellists Gianrico Filacchione, Daniel J. Scheeres, Simone Marchi, Isabel King, Daniella DellaGiustina
Michael Ravine: Small Imaging Systems for Asteroid Science
Gianrico Filacchione: MIST-A, the MWIR Imaging Spectrometer for Target-Asteroids onboard Emirates Mission to the Asteroid belt (EMA)
Isaac Saedi: Communication Subsystem for the Thumper Interior Asteroid Probe
Jacopo Villa: A Landmark-free Approach for Autonomous Shape Reconstruction of Asteroids using Visual Point Clouds
Kevin Walsh: Seismometer To Investigate Interior Asteroid Structure – SIIAS
Andreas Riedo: In-Situ Organics Detection using Laser-based Mass Spectrometry
Dany Waller: Gradiometry For Next-Generation Planetary Science Missions
Posters
Patrick Gasda: OrganiCam: A light-weight luminescence imager and spectrometer for planetary exploration
Noah Martin: Optical Performance of OrganiCam, a Laser-Induced Luminescence Remote Instrument for Planetary Exploration
William Brinckerhoff: Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI): Development of Flight-Like Prototype
Khadija Al Shemeili: Science Payload of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)
Adhitya Sripennem: Passive Plasma Burst Detection and Inverse Localization System for Asteroid Surface Activity Monitoring
Mool C. Gupta: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Planetary Materials Studies
Mool C. Gupta: A Miniaturized, Multifunctional, Microscopic Organic/Inorganic Composition Analytical Probe for Planetary in situ Spectroscopy (MOCAPS)
Chip Bollendonk: A Vacuum Ultraviolet Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Ultra-high Resolution Spectroscopy
Benjamin Rotter: Compact Lidar Digitizing Receiver (CoLiDR) Benchtop Measurements: 64 channel Gigasample Per Second Time Domain Waveform Readout With the HDSoCv2 Digitizing ASIC
Christian Tate: Hyperspectral Imaging for Planetary Surface Missions: A Linearly Variable Filter Rail as an Alternative to The Multispectral Filter Wheel
Maria Usanova: A Magneto-Optical Magnetometer for Solar System Exploration
Cole J. Dorman: The CHIME Magnetometer: Enabling Comprehensive Self-Calibration Across Space Environments
Leonardo Regoli: APL Vector Atomic Rubidium Magnetometer for Planetary Space Applications
Michaela Ellmeier: Atomic scalar and vector magnetometers for space exploration
Chris Moeckel: Enhancing the main mission with a CubeSat: Small Form Factor, Big Impact