[meteorite-list] 10th Low-Cost Planetary Mission Conference (LCMP-10)

[Ron Baalke]

http://lcpm10.caltech.edu/

10th Low-Cost Planetary Mission Conference (LCMP-10)
followed by Theodore von Karman Symposium
June 18-20, 2013 & June 21, 2013
Pasadena California

Welcome

We are pleased to announce the 10th International Academy of
Astronautics (IAA) Low-Cost Planetary Missions
Conference, LCPM-10, to be held on the campus of the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the heart
of beautiful Pasadena, California, on June 18-20, 2013. 

The focus of the 10th Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference is on
missions characterized by those of NASA's Discovery program and ESA's
Cosmic Visions Medium-Class program.  These missions of scientific
exploration are conducted at a fixed cost that includes spacecraft and
science payload development, launch, operations, science data analysis,
and all relevant mission-specific technology development.  Other
relevant examples of low-cost planetary missions include JAXA's
Hayabusa-1 mission and ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 mission.

The conference is a forum for planetary scientists, technologists,
engineers, project managers and agency officials to gather for the
exchange of information and ideas for making this class of robotic
mission richer scientifically while remaining affordably low-cost.  The
conference will be conducted fully in sequential plenary sessions,
augmented by one or more poster sessions. Please follow the links to the
left for further information.


von Karman Symposium

LCPM-10 will be followed on June 21, 2013, by an IAA-sponsored symposium
celebrating the life and many accomplishments of Theodore von Karman.
The von Karman symposium will also to be held on the
Caltech Campus in Pasadena.