Title: International Workshop On Creating New and Sustainable Space Exploration
1The French Space Exploration Programme
- Plenary session
- presented by Stephane Janichewski, Director for
Strategy and Programmes
2CNES RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND EUROPEAN POLICY
ISSUES
- CNES has redefined organization and ambitions.
- European Union is about to acquire a shared
competence in space - more political legitimacy and visibility to
European space policy, - specific resources may complement ESA budgets in
the 2007-2013 time frame.
3CNES WELCOMES THE US INITIATIVE FOR SPACE
EXPLORATION
- A challenging opportunity
- to develop new, ambitious, scientific and
technological programmes, - to pursue cooperation with US and other space
powers on a fresh basis, - to valorize European public and private
competences.
4EXPLORATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AN AMBITIOUS
INTERNATIONAL ENDEAVOR
- at the European level
- ESA with AURORA programme initiative, for robotic
enabling technologies and missions, - European Union if a political initiative could be
taken in a mid-term period. - at the international level
- United States, Russia, Japan, India, China
5CNES VIEWS ON INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION
- multilateral and bilateral approaches
- France, as a major ESA and EU member state, to
contribute to an European response, - CNES to conduct bilateral projects in cooperation
with partners, either to prepare technical
solutions or to deliver multilaterally agreed
building blocks.
6CNES SCIENTIFIC SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION PROGRAMME
- ESAs mandatory scientific programme is the core
and top priority in space sciences (CNES
contribution development of on board
instruments). - ESA exploration must have also a scientific
content. - Bilateral cooperations on original and focused
scientific goals with US, Russia, Japan, India,
China to complement the European participation. - National activities on the scientific programme
minisatellites, microsatellites, balloons.
7SCIENTIFIC PROSPECTIVE
- First priority the exploration of Mars by
automatic missions (orbital studies, in situ
science, network science implementation, Mars
sample return missions). - Second Priority a Near Earth Object rendez-vous
mission (asteroid). - Other topics the Moon, science priority
considered low, possible opportunity
contributions.
8CNES AND HUMAN SPACEFLIGHTS
20 years of CNES experience from Saliout, MIR,
Shuttles to ISS. A major contribution to the ESA
programmes (ISS development and exploitation
phases, and ISS utilization). The past 9 French
astronauts, 16 flights in cooperation to
contribute to the progress in life and physical
sciences and improve the knowledge on flights
(training, system management and control,
operations). The present pursue the scientific
and technological utilization of ISS through the
development of specific hardware (Cardiomed,
Declic,.). The future priority to manage ISS
utilization to have the best scientific return on
investment, through fulfilment of all partners
obligations.
9CNES VIEWS FOR EXPLORATION BEYOND ISS
- Europe should play an important role.
- On the mid-term, robotic exploration is the most
valuable and affordable for Europe. - Europe and France will invest in the human
spaceflight related technologies, to be ready for
human exploration on the long term. - Cooperation to provide autonomy to the partners
and to allow interoperability of systems or
multilaterally agreed building blocks approach.
10INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION A MODEL BASED ON
- Long term involvement
- Clear mutual understanding
- Coordination
- Autonomy of decision
- Segmentation of the whole architecture
- Robustness
- Flexibility in implementation
11Conclusion
- Exploration could be part of a new European
ambition. - National agencies, ESA and EU will work for a
coherent European approach to establish
cooperation with partners. - CNES, based on its long cooperation experience
with the US, Russia as well as India and Japan
would be happy to join the future multilateral
cooperation to implement the exploration of the
solar system.