Biography:Stephan Ulamec
Stephan Ulamec | |
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Born | Salzburg, Austria |
Citizenship | Austrian |
Known for | Exploration of small bodies in the solar system |
Awards | Sir Arthur Clark Award, 2014. Wernher von Braun Honour, 2015 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geophysics |
Institutions | Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC),
Space Operations and Astronaut Training, German Space Agency (DLR) in Cologne, Germany |
Thesis | Acoustic and Electrical Methods for the Exploration of Atmospheres and Surfaces, with Application to Saturn's Moon Titan (1991) |
Website | https://www.dlr.de/rb/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4535/ |
Stephan Ulamec is an Austrian geophysicist, born in Salzburg on January 27, 1966, with more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several participations in space missions and payloads operated by diverse space agencies.[1][2] He is working at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) in Cologne.[3][4] He is regularly giving lectures about his publications in aerospace engineering at the University of Applied Sciences: Fachhochschule FH-Aachen.[5][6] Main aspects of his work are related to the exploration of small bodies in the solar system (asteroids and comets).[7][8]
Education
Ulamec studied Geophysics at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz (Austria) as student of Prof. Siegfried J. Bauer.[9] He finished his PhD on “Acoustic and Electrical Methods for the Exploration of Atmospheres and Surfaces, with Application to Saturn's Moon Titan” in 1991.[10]
Career
From 1991 till 1993 he worked as a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA), specifically at European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, in The Netherlands. Since 1994, he is at the Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC) which is part of the DLR Space Operations and Astronaut Training (SOAT).[11][12] He has made several presentations at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC).[13][14]
Involvement in space missions
Mission to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Stephan Ulamec has been the project manager of the Rosetta lander Philae, which successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.[15][16]
Mission to (162173) Ryugu
He has also been Payload Manager of MASCOT, a lander made in common by the French space agency (CNES) and the DLR, that has been delivered by the JAXA Hayabusa2 spacecraft to asteroid (162173) Ryugu in 2018.[17]
Mission to Phobos (Mars I)
He is one of two lead scientists (Co Principal Investigator) of the French-German MMX rover called IDEFIX©, together with Dr Patrick Michel.[18] This rover is to be launched in 2024 by the Japanese Mars Moons eXploration (MMX), a JAXA (Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency) mission to the Mars natural satellite Phobos.[19][20][21]
Mission to (65803) Didymos
He is also part of the Science Management Board for the ESA Hera mission, to be launched in 2024 with a Space X Falcon 9 shuttle, aimed at operating a rendezvous and characterising in details the asteroid (65803) Didymos and its natural satellite Dimorphos, and also analysing the artificial impact created by the American space agency NASA probe DART in September 2022.[22][23]
Involvement in other projects and working groups
NEO-MAPP
He is involved in NEO-MAPP, a European Union Horizon 2020 project to study mitigation and characterisation techniques for potentially hazardous asteroids.[24][25]
SSEWG and SSAC
From January 2020 till December 2023, he is chairing the ESA Solar System and Exploration Working Group (SSEWG) and is a member of the Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC).[26][27]
Writings
- Raumsonde Rosetta ( ISBN:978-3-4401-3083-4).[28]Stephan Ulamec with Klim Churyumov, during COSPAR, in 2014.
- Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik, chapter on Weltraumastronomie und Planetenmissionen ( ISBN:978-3-446-45429-3).[29]
- Spacecraft Operations, chapter on Lander Operations (ISBN:978-3-7091-1803-0).[30]
Awards and honours
- Member of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).[31][32]
- Member of European Geosciences Union (EGU).[33][34]
- Asteroid (11818) Ulamec was named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).[35][36]
- Sir Arthur Clark Award, 2014.[37]
- Wernher von Braun Ehrung (in German, honour) by the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR), 2015.[38]
Representative publications
- Ulamec, Stephan; Biele, Jens (1 October 2009). "Surface elements and landing strategies for small bodies missions – Philae and beyond". Advances in Space Research 44 (7): 847–858. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2009.06.009. Bibcode: 2009AdSpR..44..847U.
- Ulamec, S.; Kucherenko, V.; Biele, J.; Bogatchev, A.; Makurin, A.; Matrossov, S. (February 2011). "Hopper concepts for small body landers". Advances in Space Research 47 (3): 428–439. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.09.013. Bibcode: 2011AdSpR..47..428U.
- Ulamec, Stephan; Biele, Jens; Bousquet, Pierre-W.; Gaudon, Philippe; Geurts, Koen; Ho, Tra-Mi; Krause, Christian; Lange, Caroline et al. (2014). "Landing on small bodies: From the Rosetta Lander to MASCOT and beyond". Acta Astronautica 93: 460–466. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.02.007. Bibcode: 2014AcAau..93..460U. https://elib.dlr.de/101283/1/Abstract%20RECON2015%20Arizona%20Jan%208-10%202014.pdf.
- Ulamec, Stephan; Biele, Jens; Blazquez, Alejandro; Cozzoni, Barbara; Delmas, Cedric; Fantinati, Cinzia; Gaudon, Philippe; Geurts, Koen et al. (February 2015). "Rosetta Lander – Philae: Landing preparations". Acta Astronautica 107: 79–86. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.11.019. Bibcode: 2015AcAau.107...79U. https://elib.dlr.de/93332/1/LandingPrep_Ulamec_2015.pdf.
- Biele, Jens; Ulamec, Stephan; Maibaum, Michael; Roll, Reinhard; Witte, Lars; Jurado, Eric; Muñoz, Pablo; Arnold, Walter et al. (31 July 2015). "The landing(s) of Philae and inferences about comet surface mechanical properties". Science 349 (6247). doi:10.1126/science.aaa9816. PMID 26228158. Bibcode: 2015Sci...349a9816B.
- Ulamec, Stephan; Fantinati, Cinzia; Maibaum, Michael; Geurts, Koen; Biele, Jens; Jansen, Sven; Küchemann, Oliver; Cozzoni, Barbara et al. (1 August 2016). "Rosetta Lander – Landing and operations on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko". Acta Astronautica 125: 80–91. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.11.029. Bibcode: 2016AcAau.125...80U. https://elib.dlr.de/100914/1/OnCometOps.pdf.
- Jaumann, R.; Schmitz, N.; Ho, T.-M.; Schröder, S. E.; Otto, K. A.; Stephan, K.; Elgner, S.; Krohn, K. et al. (23 August 2019). "Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites". Science 365 (6455): 817–820. doi:10.1126/science.aaw8627. PMID 31439797. Bibcode: 2019Sci...365..817J.
- Thomas, N.; Ulamec, S.; Kührt, E.; Ciarletti, V.; Gundlach, B.; Yoldi, Z.; Schwehm, G.; Snodgrass, C. et al. (December 2019). "Towards New Comet Missions". Space Science Reviews 215 (8): 47. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0611-0. Bibcode: 2019SSRv..215...47T.
- Michel, Patrick; Ulamec, Stephan; Böttger, Ute; Grott, Matthias; Murdoch, Naomi; Vernazza, Pierre; Sunday, Cecily; Zhang, Yun et al. (December 2022). "The MMX rover: performing in situ surface investigations on Phobos". Earth, Planets and Space 74 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01464-7. Bibcode: 2022EP&S...74....2M.
- Michel, Patrick; Küppers, Michael; Bagatin, Adriano Campo; Carry, Benoit; Charnoz, Sébastien; Leon, Julia de; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Gordo, Paulo et al. (July 2022). "The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos". The Planetary Science Journal 3 (7): 160. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52. Bibcode: 2022PSJ.....3..160M.
References
- ↑ "Stefan Ulamec - Vortrag anlässlich 400 Jahren Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg" (in de). https://castbox.fm/episode/Stefan-Ulamec---Vortrag-anl%C3%A4sslich-400-Jahren-Akademisches-Gymnasium-Salzburg-id1149379-id72338624.
- ↑ "Stephan Ulamec - Search Results - PubMed" (in en). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?cmd=search&term=Stephan+Ulamec.
- ↑ "Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=%22Stephan%20Ulamec%22&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en.
- ↑ "Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus". https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=resultslist&authorId=55406392200&zone.
- ↑ "Menschen". https://www.fh-aachen.de/fachbereiche/luft-und-raumfahrttechnik/menschen.
- ↑ "Publikationen" (in de-DE). https://www.fh-aachen.de/hochschule/bibliothek/publikationen?tx_fhacopus_komplett%5Baction%5D=literatur&tx_fhacopus_komplett%5Bcontroller%5D=Komplett&tx_fhacopus_komplett%5Buid%5D=8537&cHash=501f38f5cc845f5092944a1abc8abe4b.
- ↑ "Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus". https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=resultslist&authorId=55406392200&zone.
- ↑ "S Ulamec". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S-Ulamec.
- ↑ "Astronaut Training". https://www.gspeakers.com/topics/astronaut-training/.
- ↑ Mapp, Neo (3 February 2020). "Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D." (in en-US). https://neomapp.eu/people/dr-stephan-ulamec/.
- ↑ "ORCID". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8856-4622.
- ↑ "DLR - Contact Stephan Ulamec" (in en). https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2014/20140915_a-long-awaited-touchdown-interview-with-stephan-ulamec_11557.
- ↑ "Search - Archive ouverte HAL" (in en). https://hal.science/search/index/?q=stephan+ulamec&rows=30&docType_s=COMM.
- ↑ Federation, International Astronautical. "IAF : Stephan ULAMEC" (in en). https://www.iafastro.org/biographie/stephan-ulamec.html.
- ↑ "Philae touchdown: lander status and first descent image" (in en). https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2014/11/Philae_touchdown_lander_status_and_first_descent_image.
- ↑ "Touchdown!" (in en). https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2014/11/Touchdown.
- ↑ MASCOT operations on Ryugu - focus on some specific tasks. 20 October 2019. https://elib.dlr.de/129747/. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ↑ Ulamec, Stephan; Michel, Patrick; Grott, Matthias; Böttger, Ute; Schröder, Susanne; Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm; Cho, Yuichiro; Rull, Fernando et al. (September 2023). "Science objectives of the MMX rover". Acta Astronautica 210: 95–101. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.05.012. Bibcode: 2023AcAau.210...95U.[non-primary source needed]
- ↑ Ulamec, Stephan; Michel, Patrick; Grott, Matthias; Böttger, Ute; Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm; Murdoch, Naomi; Vernazza, Pierre; Özgür, Kaaekn et al. (20 October 2019). "A rover for the JAXA MMX Mission to Phobos". 70th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2019. International Astronautical Federation. pp. IAC–19. https://elib.dlr.de/130664/.[non-primary source needed]
- ↑ "DLR - Space Operations and Astronaut Training - Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission". https://www.dlr.de/rb/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-13789/.
- ↑ "Le rover de la mission MMX baptisé IDEFIX® !" (in fr). 2023-07-03. https://mmx.cnes.fr/fr/le-rover-de-la-mission-mmx-baptise-idefixr.
- ↑ "HERA Mission Team" (in en-US). https://www.heramission.space/team.
- ↑ "Hera" (in en). https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera.
- ↑ Mapp, Neo. "Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D." (in en-US). https://neomapp.eu/leads2/stephan-ulamec-ph-d/.
- ↑ "German Aerospace Center Germany" (in en-US). https://neomapp.eu/partner/german-aerospace-center-germany/.
- ↑ "Members - SSEWG - Cosmos". https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/ssewg/members.
- ↑ "Members - SSAC - Cosmos". https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/ssac/members.
- ↑ Möhlmann, Diedrich; Ulamec, Stephan (2014) (in de). Raumsonde Rosetta: die abenteuerlliche Reise zum unbekannten Kometen ; [das Buch zur Mission]. Kosmos. ISBN 978-3-440-13083-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=m0MqngEACAAJ.
- ↑ (in de) Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik. Hanser Fachbuchverlag. 2019-01-14. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL45296492M/Handbuch_der_Raumfahrttechnik#details.
- ↑ Uhlig, Thomas; Sellmaier, Florian; Schmidhuber, Michael (2014-08-20) (in en). Spacecraft Operations. Springer. ISBN 978-3-7091-1803-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=XbZTBAAAQBAJ.
- ↑ "Commissions – IAA" (in en-US). https://iaaspace.org/about/commissions/.
- ↑ "5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference – PDC 2017 15-19 May 2017, Tokyo, Japan IAA-PDC-17-0X-XX USING INFORMATION FROM RENDEZVOUS MISSIONS FOR BEST-CASE APPRAISALS OF IMPACT DAMAGE TO PLANET EARTH CAUSED BY NATURAL OBJECTS". https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20180000826/downloads/20180000826.pdf.
- ↑ Küppers, Michael; Michel, Patrick; Ulamec, Stephan; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Green, Simon; Lazzarin, Monica; Carnelli, Ian; Martino, Paolo (2022-03-25) (in en). The ESA Hera mission to the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos:Planetary Defense and Science (Report). https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-6375.html.[non-primary source needed]
- ↑ Ulamec, Stephan; Michel, Patrick; Grott, Matthias; Böttger, Ute; Hübers, Heinz-Willhelm; Cho, Yuichiro; Rull, Fernando; Murdoch, Naomi et al. (2022-03-25) (in en). Phobos Surface Science with the MMX Rover (Report). https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-4033.html.[non-primary source needed]
- ↑ Mapp, Neo (3 February 2020). "Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D." (in en-US). https://neomapp.eu/people/dr-stephan-ulamec/.
- ↑ "Small-Body Database Lookup". https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=11818.
- ↑ "Sir Arthur Clarke Award" (in en), Wikipedia, 2022-11-23, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sir_Arthur_Clarke_Award&oldid=1123328799, retrieved 2023-02-10
- ↑ "Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2015 - DLRK 2015: Aktuell". http://www.dlrk2015.dglr.de/.
Further reading
Related articles
Official agencies external links
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/philae-finds-hard-ice-and-organic-molecules
- https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2014/09/Rosetta_Mission_Status/Stephan_Ulamec_Philae_Lander_Manager_DLR_ITV_in_German
- https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2014/11/Rosetta_wrap_up
- https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/02/Philae_facing_eternal_hibernation
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/capjournals/pdf/capj_0019.pdf (An Historic Encounter: Reviewing the Outreach around ESA’s Rosetta Mission: pages 44 to 47)
Media coverage
- Comet lander's scientific harvest may be its last: Philae has fallen silent after fragmentary messages
- The return of Philae: Revived after hibernation, comet lander awaits orders
- (in French) https://www.sudouest.fr/sciences-et-technologie/mission-rosetta-il-est-temps-de-dire-au-revoir-a-philae-3689370.php
- https://www.science.org/content/article/philae-s-scientific-harvest-may-be-its-last
- Gibney, Elizabeth (7 May 2015). "Five factors that will decide if Philae wakes". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17488.
- Castelvecchi, Davide (26 June 2018). "Daring Japanese mission reaches unexplored asteroid Ryugu". Nature 558 (7711): 495–496. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05544-9. PMID 29946100. Bibcode: 2018Natur.558..495C.
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-ryugu-poses-landing-risks-for-japanese-mission/
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/14/rise-and-shine-rosettas-philae-probe-could-be-awake-within-weeks
- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30qpfs
- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/philae-lander-goes-to-sleep-after-sending-data-to-earth-1.2002692
- https://spacenews.com/esa-moves-two-missions-to-falcon-9/
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