The goal of the workshop is to establish consensus around the needs and challenges associated with “Continuity”, including: considering the needs for climate science, mitigation, adaptation, and identifying technical, programmatic, and observing architecture design challenges.
This workshop will examine non-destructive instrumentation to detect biosignatures and sampling techniques to collect and preserve microhabitats while retaining the spatial context.
The Keck Institute for Space Studies hosted a workshop that investigated the potential and limitations of a non-nuclear solar system exploration architecture. This final report represents the findings of this workshop, and provides evaluation of the system architectures and technologies necessary to extend solar-powered missions to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
Final Report DOI:10.7907/h62p-6328
Details »On April 19th, KISS Affiliate Aida Behmard won the Caltech Three Minute Thesis Final Event in an exciting competition with fourteen talented finalists. She won the $3000 grand prize for her presentation "Planets on a Galactic Scale".
Details »Recent article by Leonard David published in Aerospace America describes a recommendation for NASA from the scientists working on the Keck Institute for Space Studies program "Revolutionizing Access to the Martian Surface" to send a variety of small robotic spacecraft to regions inaccessible to today's landers and rovers.
Details »The Keck Institute for Space Studies hosted two workshops that realized practical models for the broadly applicable Nebula concept. This final report represents the findings of those two workshops, and provides concept descriptions, use cases, pragmatic considerations, and justification for this complementary operations paradigm.
Final Report DOI: 10.7907/d1sm-mj77
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