Stephan Ulamec

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]

Stephan Ulamec
(in 2015)
Born
Salzburg, Austria
CitizenshipAustrian
Known forExploration of small bodies in the solar system
AwardsSir Arthur Clark Award, 2014. Wernher von Braun Honour, 2015
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
InstitutionsMicrogravity User Support Center (MUSC),

Space Operations and Astronaut Training,

German Space Agency (DLR)

in Cologne, Germany
ThesisAcoustic and Electrical Methods for the Exploration of Atmospheres and Surfaces, with Application to Saturn's Moon Titan (1991)
Websitehttps://www.dlr.de/rb/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4535/

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
Main article: Rosetta (mission)

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
Main article: Hayabusa2

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)
"Philae will land on a comet in 2014. Preparations for this are already in full swing," says Stephan Ulamec in September 2013.
"Philae will land on a comet in 2014. Preparations for this are already in full swing," says Stephan Ulamec in September 2013.
Main article: Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)

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
Main article: Hera (space mission)

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]

Stephan Ulamec and Patrick Michel on 21 June 2023 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Stephan Ulamec and Patrick Michel on 21 June 2023 in Flagstaff, Arizona (USA) during a break at the Asteroid, Comet, Meteor (ACM) Conference, celebrating the naming of IDEFIX©, the JAXA's MMX mission DLR CNES rover, as its two Co Principal Investigators.

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
  • Stephan Ulamec with Klim Churyumov, during COSPAR, in 2014.
    Stephan Ulamec with Klim Churyumov, during COSPAR, in 2014.
    Raumsonde Rosetta ( ISBN 978-3-4401-3083-4).[28]
  • 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

Representative publications

References
  1. "Stefan Ulamec - Vortrag anlässlich 400 Jahren Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg". Castbox (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  2. "Stephan Ulamec - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  3. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  4. "Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  5. "Menschen". fh-aachen.de.
  6. "Publikationen". FH Aachen (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  7. "Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  8. "S Ulamec". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  9. "Astronaut Training". Global Speakers Bureau. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  10. Mapp, Neo (3 February 2020). "Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D." NEO MAPP. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  11. "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  12. "DLR - Contact Stephan Ulamec". SERVICE_CONTACT DLR Portal. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  13. "Search - Archive ouverte HAL". hal.science. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  14. Federation, International Astronautical. "IAF : Stephan ULAMEC". www.iafastro.org. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  15. "Philae touchdown: lander status and first descent image". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  16. "Touchdown!". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  17. "MASCOT operations on Ryugu - focus on some specific tasks". DLR. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  18. Ulamec, Stephan; Michel, Patrick; Grott, Matthias; Böttger, Ute; Schröder, Susanne; Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm; Cho, Yuichiro; Rull, Fernando; Murdoch, Naomi; Vernazza, Pierre; Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga; Biele, Jens; Tardivel, Simon; Arrat, Denis; Hagelschuer, Till; Knollenberg, Jörg; Vivet, Damien; Sunday, Cecily; Jorda, Laurent; Groussin, Olivier; Robin, Colas; Miyamoto, Hirdy (September 2023). "Science objectives of the MMX rover". Acta Astronautica. 210: 95–101. Bibcode:2023AcAau.210...95U. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.05.012. S2CID 258632762.
  19. Ulamec, Stephan; Michel, Patrick; Grott, Matthias; Böttger, Ute; Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm; Murdoch, Naomi; Vernazza, Pierre; Özgür, Kaaekn; Knollenberg, Jörg; Willner, Konrad; Grebenstein, Markus; Mary, Stéphane; Chazalnoel, Pascale; Biele, Jens; Krause, Christian; Ho, Tra-Mi; Lange, Caroline; Grundmann, Jan Thimo; Sasaki, Kaname; Maibaum, Michael; Küchemann, Oliver; Reill, Josef; Chalon, Maxime; Barthelmes, Stefan; Lichtenheldt, Roy; Krenn, Rainer; Smisek, Michal; Bertrand, Jean; Moussi, Aurelie; Delmas, Cedric; Tardivel, Simon; Arrat, Denis; IJpelaan, Frans; Melac, Laurence; Lorda, Laurence; Remetean, Emile; Lange, Michael; Mierheim, Olaf; Reershemius, Siebo; Usui, Tomohiro; Matsuoko, Moe; Nakamura, Tomoki; Wada, Koji; Miyamoto, Hirdy; Kuramoto, Kiyoshi; LeMaitre, Julia; Mas, Guillaume; Delpech, Michel; Celine, Loisel; Rafflegeau, Arthur; Boirad, Honorine; Schmisser, Roseline; Virmontois, Cedric; Cenac-Morthe, Céline; Besson, Arthus; Rull, Fernando (20 October 2019). A rover for the JAXA MMX Mission to Phobos. 70th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2019. International Astronautical Federation. pp. IAC–19.
  20. "DLR - Space Operations and Astronaut Training - Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission". www.dlr.de. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  21. "Le rover de la mission MMX baptisé IDEFIX® !". Mmx (in French). 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  22. "HERA Mission Team". Hera Mission. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  23. "Hera". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
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  25. "German Aerospace Center Germany". NEO MAPP. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  26. "Members - SSEWG - Cosmos". www.cosmos.esa.int. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  27. "Members - SSAC - Cosmos". www.cosmos.esa.int. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  28. Möhlmann, Diedrich; Ulamec, Stephan (2014). Raumsonde Rosetta: die abenteuerlliche Reise zum unbekannten Kometen ; [das Buch zur Mission] (in German). Kosmos. ISBN 978-3-440-13083-4.
  29. Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik (in German). Hanser Fachbuchverlag. 2019-01-14. OL 45296492M.
  30. Uhlig, Thomas; Sellmaier, Florian; Schmidhuber, Michael (2014-08-20). Spacecraft Operations. Springer. ISBN 978-3-7091-1803-0.
  31. "Commissions – IAA". Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  32. "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" (PDF). ntrs.nasa.gov.
  33. Küppers, Michael; Michel, Patrick; Ulamec, Stephan; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Green, Simon; Lazzarin, Monica; Carnelli, Ian; Martino, Paolo (2022-03-25). The ESA Hera mission to the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos:Planetary Defense and Science (Report).
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