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2021.02.25 Announcement for the 4th Lunar Polar Exploration Workshop
Announcement for the 4th Lunar Polar Exploration Workshop
Lunar Polar Exploration Pre-Project Team
JAXA Space Exploration Center
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JAXA has been studying an international collaborative mission with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The main objective of the mission is to explore the lunar polar regions to obtain data on the quantity and quality of water in order to determine whether lunar water resources can be used for sustainable space exploration activities in the future.
Lunar Polar Exploration Workshops have previously been held three times in the past, as a forum for discussion to gather opinions from participants from various fields in order to improve our mission. We are now pleased to announce that we will hold the 4th Lunar Polar Exploration Workshop on March 22. In this workshop, we will report on the latest status of the study and introduce the instruments to investigate the potential water resources on the Moon. The workshop will include an invited lecture from ISRO, and host a panel discussion. JAXA is considering opening a call for proposals and suggestions for experiments and simulations that should be conducted before the mission, and for the analysis of obtained data from the mission. We look forward to seeing you there.
☆Date & Time: March 22, 2021 (Mon) 13:30-17:20 （JST）
☆Place: Online Webinar
☆Access URL: To be provided to those who have applied for participation.
☆Target: Agencies, Private companies, universities, and those who are interested in lunar polar exploration
☆Language: Japanese (invited lecture is in English)）
★Application Form (only in Japanese)
(About personal information (only in Japanese)）
| 13:30 | Opening | ||
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| 13:30 | Opening Remarks | TSUTSUI Fumiya (JSEC Director, JAXA) |
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| 13:35 | Status Report on the Mission | ||
| 13:35 | Status of the Mission | ASOH Dai (JAXA) | |
| 13:50 | Status on Mission Instruments | KAROUJI Yuzuru (JAXA) | |
| 14:05 | Status Report on the Instruments | ||
| 14:05 | Advanced Lunar Imaging Spectrometer (ALIS) | SAIKI Kazuto（Osaka Univ.） | |
| 14:20 | Resource Investigation Water Analyzer (REIWA) / Lunar Thermogravimetric Analyzer (LTGA) | NOMURA Reiko（JAXA) | |
| 14:35 | REIWA/ Triple Reflection Reflectron (TRITON) | SAITO Yoshifumi（JAXA） | |
| 14:50 | REIWA/ADORE (Aquatic Detector using Optical Resonance) | YAMANAKA Chihiro（Osaka Univ.） | |
| 15:05 | Scenario for Observation Operations | ISHIHARA Yoshiaki（JAXA) | |
| 15:20 | Break | ||
| 15:30 | Invited Lecture | ||
| 15:30 | Lunar Science & exploration: ISRO's road map |
Dr. Shyama Narendranath （Space Science Division, ISRO） |
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| 16:10 | Break | ||
| 16:15 | Panel Discussion: Efforts for Output Data Creation Team (ODCT) | ||
| 16:15 | Introduction of ODCT | 【Moderators】
OHTAKE Makiko（Aizu Univ.） MORODA Tomokatsu（Tokyo Univ.） |
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| 16:25 | Panel Discussion | 【Panelists】
SAIKI Kazuto （Osaka Univ.） NOMURA Reiko （JAXA） SAITO Yoshifumi（JAXA） YAMANAKA Chihiro （saka Univ.） MIYAMOTO Hideaki（Tokyo Univ.） HARUYAMA Makoto（St. Marianna University School of Medicine） HASHIZUME Ko（Ibaraki Univ.） |
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| 17:15 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 17:15 | Closing Remarks | SASAKI Hiroshi（Vice President, JAXA） | |
| 17:20 | Close | ||