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Towards a Roadmap for Future Satellite Gravity Missions
September 30 - October 2, 2009, Graz, Austria


Breakout Session B2 (Wednesday, September 30, 2009): Mission Design (Candidate Technology).
Co-chairs: Jürgen Müller, Stefano Cesare, Nico Sneeuw.
Rapporteur: Nico Sneeuw
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

1120 - 1540:Breakout Sessions:
B2: Mission design; Co-Chairs: Jürgen Müller, Stefano Cesare, Nico Sneeuw; session description.
1120 - 1125 Jürgen Müller, Stefano Cesare: Introduction (presentations
1125 - 1140 Pete Bender: Future gravity mission scenarios involving two pairs of drag-free satellites (abstract, presentation)
1140 - 1155 Bryant Loomis: Possible mission architectures for a GRACE follow-on mission including a study on upgraded instrumentation suites, and multiple satellite pairs in moderately-inclined orbits (abstract, presentation)
1155 - 1210 Stefano Cesare: First developments on laser metrology technologies and drag-free/formation control techniques (abstract, presentation)
1210 - 1225 Jean-Pierre Marque: The ultra sensitive GOCE Accelerometers and their future developments (abstract, presentation)
1225 - 1240 Albert Zaglauer: Platform design and technologies for future gravity missions (abstract, presentation)
1240 - 1400Lunch
1400 - 1415 Gerhard Heinzel: LISA Pathfinder technology developments applicable to future gravity missions (abstract, presentation)
1415 - 1430 Wolfgang Schäfer: Advanced Concepts for Ranging and Time Transfer: Applications and Mission Support (abstract, presentation)
1430 - 1445 Malte Schmidt: Advanced accelerometer/gradiometer concepts based on atom interferometry (abstract, presentation)
1445 - 1500 A. Görlitz: Transportable optical clocks: towards gravimetry based on the graviational redshift (abstract, presentation)
1500 - 1540 General discussion, questions/answers, and session wrap-up/conclusions

Posters:
Peter Gath: Long Lifetime Orbits for the German Lunar Exploration Orbiter (abstract, pdf)