A Triumph of Keynote Lectures to delve into Space Exploration

On Wednesday morning at 9:00, Robert Chambers, Program Strategy Lead for Orion Production at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, will introduce the ‘Recent Developments in Lockheed Martin’s Human Space Exploration Program’ and summarize the current efforts at Lockheed Martin on the different human spaceflight programs. At 15:30, Sun Weigang, Chief Engineer, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, will present the ‘China’s Chang’e- 5 Lunar Probe and China’s Deep Space Exploration Mission’ as well as the development and prospects of China’s deep space exploration programs.

On Thursday 8 at 9.00, Lu Yu, Director of Science and Technology Committee of China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) will show the latest ‘Space Launch Vehicle’s Development in China’. Then, there will be a lecture on the ‘Prospect of China’s Deep Space Exploration’ where China deep space future goals, principles, capacity, implementation plans, mission plans, and important scientific issues will be briefly presented. Followed at 10.00 by Didier Morançais, responsible for the business development and sales of Space Science and Exploration missions at Airbus Defence & Space, on ‘The Fabulous Journey of Interplanetary Exploration at Airbus’. This keynote will present an overview of the major interplanetary exploration missions developed by Airbus, from those already flown to those in development.

Last keynote of the conference will be on ‘The Open Experimental Resources of Serve Payloads for International Cooperation Onboard Space Station’ presented by Wei Chuanfeng, Deputy Chief Director of Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory.

For more information on the full programme, visit www.glex2017.org.

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