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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 Press Briefings

Monday 16th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)

Cheops mission update

Michel Mayor (University of Geneva) – Exoplanets in context

Kate Isaak (European Space Agency) – Cheops mission status

Willy Benz (University of Bern) – Cheops – An exoplanet follow-up mission

Ravit Helled (University of Zurich) – Cheops contribution to open questions in (exo)planetary science

David Ehrenreich (University of Geneva) – Cheops in the context of other exoplanet missions

Tuesday 17th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)

Hayabusa2 & OSIRIS-REx

Makoto Yshikawa (ISAS/JAXA) – Hayabusa2 mission results: the impact experiment and the second touchdown

Antonella Barucci (Observatoire de Paris) – Spectral variation on the surface of Ryugu

Franck Marchis (SETI Institute) – Occultation of Lucy target, Orus

Wednesday 18th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)

Future mission updates

Patrick Michel (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS) – Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment (AIDA) science update

Nancy Chabot (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) – NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission

Michael Küppers (European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC) – Hera mission

Colin Wilson (University of Oxford) – EnVision mission to Venus

Kelly Geelen (European Space Agency) – Mars Sample Return plans and current status

Thursday 19th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)

Akatsuki mission results, 2020 Coordinated Venus Observations and science at Venus