Hera International Workshop 2024

April 24-26th, 2024 - ESTEC

Wednesday, April, 24th

Science Operations Working Group meeting

ESTEC, tennis hall (Escape building)

09:00 Introduction (M. Küppers)

09:05 Hera CMOC update (J. Coheur)

09:15 Cubesats Flight Dynamics and Science Operation Center update (P. Annat)

09:25 Hera SPICE and Cosmographia update (A. Escalante)

09:35 Hera Scientific payload calibratioon update (G. Kovacs) 09:45 Provenance/3D GIS update (G. Paar)

10:00 Hera Mission Operations Centre Update and status of cruise phase planning (S. Lodiot)

10:45 Coffee Break

Cruise phase operations planning Instrument readiness for cruise operations
(Cruise phase operations plan (spreadsheet),
Interface with ESOC for data downlink, data processing status/plans, critical points)

11:15 AFC (J.-B. Vincent)

11:45 Hyperscout-(J. de León, M. Popescu)

12:15 TIRI (T. Okada)

12:45 Lidar (P. Gordo)

13:15 Radio science plans for cruise (P. Tortora)

13:30 Lunch break

14:45 Mars flyby (S. Sugita, all)

15:00 Open points for cruise phase operations

Hera Trajectories and Asteroid Phase planning

15:30 Update of Hera trajectories and of asteroid phase planning (S. Lodiot, P. Muñoz)

16:00 Status of plans for high-level product creation (WG 4 chairs, task leads) Coffee break during the block

18:00 Adjourn

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, April, 25th and 26th

Hera Community Meeting

ESTEC, meeting room Newton (main building)

Thursday, April, 25th

Session 1: Hera Spacecrati, Payload, and Science status

09:30 Introduction, Logistics (M. Küppers)

09:40 Hera status (I. Carnelli)

10:10 Hera Science update (P. Michel)

10:30 AFC update (J.-B. Vincent)

10:40 Hyperscout update (J. de Leon)

10:50 TIRI update (T. Okada)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Lidar update (P. Gordo)

11:40 RSE update (P. Tortora)

11:50 Milani update (M. Cardi, T. Kohout, E. Palomba, F. Ferrari)

12:05 Juventas update (O. Karatekin, A. Herique)

Session 2: Ground-based observations (WG 2)

12:20 Current Dimorphos orbit models (P. Scheirich)

12:35 Rotational lightcurves of Dimorphos and constraints on its post-DART impact spin state (P. Pravec)

12:50 Lightcurve observations plans for June and August (A. Rozek)

13:05 Planned observations of stellar occultations by the Didymos-Dimorphos systems in 2024 (M. Tsiganis)

13:20 Lunch

Session 3 : Impact modeling and experiments (WG 1)

14:30 Session start

30 minutes coffee break within the session

17:00 Session end

18:00 Cocktail dinner at ESTEC

Friday, April, 26th

Session 4: Data analysis, exploitation and interpretation (WG 4)

09:00 Introduction to WG4 session (WG4 chairs)

09:10 Cruise phase operations: short update (Ö. Karatekin)

Sub-session 1: Mass of Dimorphos and dynamical properties of the system (chairs: P. Tortora & Ö. Karatekin)

09:20 Overview of current status of data analysis prepararion for mass, gravity field, and dynamical properries of the Didymos system (Ö. Karatekin)

09:40 Open discussion

Sub-session 2: Global properties, interior structure (chair: A. Herique)

09:50 Overview of shape changes due to DART impact (S. Raducan)

10:00 Overview of current status of data analysis preparation for shape and internal structure & discussion (A. Herique)

10:10 Coffee break (30 min)

Sub-session 3: Characterisation of the surface properties (chairs: JB. Vincent & N. Murdoch)

10:40 Overview of current knowledge of geomorphological and mechanical properties of Didymos and Dimorphos (N. Murdoch and JB. Vincent)

11:00 Experimental determination of bearing capacity + boulder segmentation update (A. Duchene) 11:10 Boulder lithology classification of Dimorphos (M. Pajola & F. Tusberti)

11:20 Plans for HERA regarding thermal fatigue and mass wasting observations (A. Lucchetti)

11:30 Status of the thermophysical model comparisons (Ö. Karatekin)

11:40 Identification of key spectral range and minimum wavelength step for reliable composition and space weathering detection (T. Kohout)

11:50 Laboratory spectra of meteorites obtained using Hyperscout-H (M. Popescu & G. Prodan)

12:00 The search for meteorite analogue for Dimorphos using infrared spectroscopy (S. Cooreman)

12:10 Open discussion, open questions after DART? (chair: JB. Vincent)

12:40 End of session

Session 5: Dynamics and physical properties modeling (WG 3)

14:00 Start of session

Coffee break within the session

16:50 End of session

16:50 AOB, Next meeting

17:00 End of meeting