Program Schedule
Times and presentations are subject to change. Details will be
added as they become available.
Sunday June 8,
2008
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6:30 p.m. |
Registration and Reception |
Holiday Inn Midtown
Montreal |
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Monday June 9, 2008
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TIME |
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7:00 |
Breakfast Buffet Holiday
Inn - Free to all registered delegates |
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Registration |
Holiday Inn |
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Shuttle bus from Holiday
Inn to CSA Headquarters |
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8:00 |
Buses depart for CSA
Headquarters |
Holiday Inn front entrance |
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8:30 |
Buses arrive at CSA |
Check in
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9:30 |
Opening Remarks |
CSA Conference Centre |
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Norm Lavallee, COO NORCAT |
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Hon Gary Lunn Minister
Natural Resources Canada - tentative |
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Guy Bujold, President CSA |
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Jean Vavrek, Executive
Director Canadian Institute of Mining |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break
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11:00 |
Plenary Session I |
CSA Conference Centre |
David Carrier
Director of the Lunar
Geotechnical Institute in Lakeland, Florida
The Apollo Program
Lessons Learned |
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12:00 |
Plenary Session II
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CSA Conference Centre |
Jim Vance
Director of Mining Research
Canada CANMET Mining and Mineral Science Laboratories
Natural Resources |
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1:00 |
LUNCH |
CSA |
Free to all registered
delegates
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2:00 |
Plenary Session III
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CSA Conference Centre |
Jean-Claude Piedboeuf
Chef, Requis et planification
technologique | Head, Technology Requirement and
Planning
Canadian Space Agency
CSAs Exploration Core
Program |
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3:00 |
Coffee Break
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Chair: Leanne Sigurdson
Co-chair: TBD |
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Technical Session |
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3:30 |
Paper 1.1
Extant and Extinct Lunar
Regolith Simulants: Modal Analyses of NU-LHT-1M and
-2m, OB-1, JSC-1, JSC-1A and -1AF, and FJS-1
C. Schrader BAE Systems-MSFC,
D. Rickman, C. Mclemore, J. Fikes NASA MSFC, S. Wilson
USGS, A. Butcher, P. Botha Intellection Ltd. |
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4:00 |
Paper 1.2
Industrial Scale Production of Lunar Simulant Glass,
Agglutinate, Microcrystalline Anorthosite and Melt
Breccias
M.A. Weinstein Zybek
Advanced Products Inc. |
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4:30 |
Paper 1.3
Development of a Lunar Dust
Simulant
R. Gustafson ORBITEC, B.L.
Cooper Oceaneering Space Systems, R. Christoffersen
Science Applications International, P.S. Greenberg, K.W.
Street NASA GRC |
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5:00 |
Paper 1.4
Synthesis of Nanophase Iron
in Functionalized Mesoporous Silica: A Novel Potential
Component of Lunar Regolith Simulant
R. Pitre, L. Mercier
Laurentian University |
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5 :30 |
Shuttle bus from CSA to
Holiday Inn Midtown |
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Tuesday June 10, 2008
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7:00
am |
Breakfast Buffet Holiday
Inn - Free to all registered delegates |
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8:00 |
Shuttle bus from Holiday
Inn to CSA |
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Chair: Michel Doyon
Co-chair: TBD |
Technical Session
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9:00 |
Paper 2.1 Challenges
of Lunar Drilling
K.A.
Zacny-Honeybee Robotics, K. Davis, G. Paulsen, S.
Gorevan |
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9:30 |
Paper 2.2
Exploring Microwave
Assisted Drilling
Pejman
Nekouaght, Ferri Hassani Department of Mining
and Materials
Engineering, McGill University, Peter Radziszewski
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University |
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10:00 |
Paper 2.3
Biomemetic Drill Design for
in situ Astrobiological Studies
Timothy
Hopkins, Alex Ellery Carleton University |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
Paper 2.4
Proof of Concept for a
Small Lunar Excavation Robot
William A. Lewinger, Philip
Dunker, Roger D. Quinn Case Western Reserve
University |
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11:30 |
Paper 2.5
The
Artificial-Neural-Tissue Framework: A
Multiplatform Technology Enabler for Lunar
Infrastructure Robotics
J. Thangavelautham, N. Abu
El Samid, K. Law, Alex. Ho, A. Smith, P Grouchy, T. Fu,
G. DEleuterio Institute for Aerospace Studies, U of
T, D. Boucher NORCAT, J. Richard EVC Ltd.
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12:00 |
Paper 2.6 Ontario Drive
and Gear
Peter Visscher ODG Ltd. |
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12:45 |
Lunch CSA - Free to all
registered delegates |
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Technology Demonstrations |
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2:00 |
Technology Demonstrations
In the Mars Yard and
surrounding area:
Utias multi-agent teaming rovers, Case Western
University Whegs, Argo Off Road vehicles
In the High Bay:
NORCATs deep drill, CSAs Vision-guided autonomous
capture of a tumbling spacecraft |
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3:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Technology Demonstrations
continued
Technology Demonstrations
In the Mars Yard and
surrounding area:
Utias multi-agent teaming rovers, Case Western
University Whegs, Argo Off Road vehicles
In the High Bay:
NORCATs deep drill, CSAs Vision-guided autonomous
capture of a tumbling spacecraft |
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5:00 |
Shuttle bus from CSA to
Holiday Inn |
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6:30 |
Banquet Holiday Inn Midtown
Montreal
Guest Speaker Sylvain
Larocque |
Wednesday June 11, 2008
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7:00 |
Breakfast Buffet Holiday
Inn -Free to all registered delegates |
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8:00 |
Shuttle bus from Holiday
Inn to CSA |
Technical Session
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Chair: Louis Mercier
Co-Chair: TBD |
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9:00 |
Paper 3.1
Financing Space Research,
Exploration and Development: The Canadian Flow-Through
Share Analog
John A. Chapman J.A.
Chapman Mining Services |
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9:30 |
Paper 3.2
Geoscientific Exploration
Activities at Planetary Analogue Sites in the Canadian
Arctic: Objectives, Operations and Challenges
Marie-Claude Williamson
Canadian Space Agency |
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10:00 |
Paper 3.3
Studying Seasonal
Variations in High Arctic Permafrost Using a Portable
Drilling System
M. Battler, G. Osinski
University of Western Ontario, K.A. Binsted University
of Hawaii, K. Bywaters California State University,
R.L. Kobrick University of Colorado, M.T. Bamsey
University of Guelph/CSA, J.R. Harris Austin Community
College, C.P. McKay NASA Ames Research Center |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
Paper 3.4
EXPLORE: Exploration
Positioning, Localization and Orebody Recognition
Leanne
Sigurdson, Dale Boucher NORCAT, Adam DesLauriers
Neptec, Mark Sdao Xiphos Technologies |
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11:30 |
Paper 3.5
Miniature Instrument Suite
with Robotic Mole Drill for Planetary in situ Mineralogy
and Microbiology
R.V.
Kruzelecky, B. Wong, J. Zou, W. Jamroz MPB
Communications, E. Cloutis University of Winnipeg, N.
Ghafoor, S. Jessen MDA Space Missions |
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12:00 |
Paper 3.6
In-Situ Geologic Analyzer
for Lunar and Martian Surface
J.P. Martin, D. Scheld
N-Science Corp, J. R. Marshall SETI Insitute, L.C.
Mason Lockheed Martin |
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12:45 |
Lunch CSA - Free to all
registered delegates |
Technical Session
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Chair: Dale Boucher Co-Chair: TBD
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2:00 |
Paper 4.1
Design Considerations for
an Oxygen Production Plant in Support of a Lunar Base
D. Linne NASA GRC, G.
Sanders NASA JSC, E. Santiago-Maldonado NASA KSC |
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2:30 |
Paper 4.2
Creating a Lightweight
Sample Processing Unit
Ronny Theiss, J. Kutchaw,
D. Roberts - NORCAT |
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3:00 |
Paper 4.3
Excavation of Lunar
Regolith for Oxygen and Site Preparation: Development
of Hardware Capabilities and Lunar-Linked Performance
Testing
K. Sacksteder, J. Caruso,
A. Wilkinson, J. Agui NASA GRC, R. Mueller, P. Metzger
NASA KSC |
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3:30 |
Paper 4.4
Exploring Abrasive Wear
Prediction, Monitoring and Correction in Lunar Mobility
Applications
P. Radziszewski CSA,
McGill University (sabbatical), E. Dupuis CSA, S
Martins McGill University |
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4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4:30 |
Shuttle bus from CSA to
Holiday Inn |
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