SH012
Interstellar Probe: At the Intersection of Helio-, Planetary and Astrophysics

Session ID#: 81219

Session Description:
A mission to the interstellar medium has been discussed since the establishment of NASA. New studies of a pragmatic Interstellar Probe launching in the 2030’s have been fueled by series of recent events: Voyager 1 and 2 have uncovered a range of mysteries, but their exploration will end in a few years. IBEX and Cassini have revealed unexpected data, to be further improved by IMAP. New Horizons flew by the furthest object ever explored. The Heliophysics Decadal recommended an Interstellar Probe, stating a need for new propulsion technologies that is now being overcome.Interstellar Probe offers remarkable opportunities for understanding the global nature of the heliosphere. KBO flybys and imaging of the circum-solar dust disk provide critical insights in solar system formation. Beyond the dust disk, the window to early galaxy formation is uncovered. This session seeks discussion on science enabled by an Interstellar Probe, its mission design and programmatic aspects.
Co-Organized:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2124 Heliopause and solar wind termination [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2126 Heliosphere/interstellar medium interactions [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
6224 Kuiper belt objects [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Primary Convener:  Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kathleen Mandt, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, Parisa Mostafavi, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Elena A Provornikova, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Planning for a Pragmatic Interstellar Probe: Requirements, Desirements, Realities (494081)
Ralph L McNutt Jr1, Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber2, Mike Gruntman3, Stamatios Mike Krimigis4, Edmond C Roelof1, Carey Michael Lisse5, Kirby Runyon1, Abigail M Rymer6, Steven R. Vernon7, Michael Vincent Paul8 and Robert Stough9, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (3)Univ of So California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Space, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)NASA Marshal Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Small Charged Grains Outside the Heliopause as a Source of Information About More Distant Regions: An Opportunity for the Interstellar Probe (498729)
Andrzej Czechowski, Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland and Ingrid Mann, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
 
Electrostatic Solar Sail: A Propellantless Propulsion Concept for an Interstellar Probe Mission (502339)
Anthony DeStefano1, Bruce M Wiegmann2, Mike Bangham3, Thomas Bryan4, John Carr4, Andrew Heaton4, Les Johnson1, Daniel Tyler4, Kenneth H Wright Jr5 and Nobie Stone6, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Retired, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Bangham Engineering Incorporated, Huntsville, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Retired, Huntsville, United States
 
Potential Energetic Neutral Atom Measurements from the Interstellar Probe (507466)
Robert Demajistre1, Pontus C. Brandt2, Edmond C Roelof1, Joseph H Westlake3 and Ralph L McNutt Jr2, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)JHUAPL, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Mapping the Local Interstellar Medium: Using Hubble to Look Back at the ISM Along the Sun’s Historical Trajectory (512086)
Hunter N. Vannier1, Seth Redfield1, Brian E. Wood2, Hans-Reinhard Mueller3, Jeffrey L. Linsky4 and Priscilla C Frisch5, (1)Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Getting the Interstellar Probe mission funded (512701)
Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Time-dependent Effects in the Heliosphere and Their Influence on the Estimation of Parameters of the Local Interstellar Medium (515840)
Romana Elzbieta Ratkiewicz and Marek Strumik, Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
 
Distribution Function of Interstellar Neutral He As Will Be Observed From Interstellar Probe (519360)
Maciej Bzowski, Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland and Marzena A. Kubiak, Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
 
Measuring the Extragalactic Background Light With an Interstellar Probe (520661)
Charles Beichman1, Michael B. Zemcov2, Carey Michael Lisse3, James A Bock4, Pontus C. Brandt5, Mihaly Horanyi6, Ralph L McNutt Jr5, Andrew R Poppe7, Michael Vincent Paul8, Veerle J Sterken9 and Jamey R Szalay10, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Physics & Astronomy, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Physics, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)MPIK / Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (10)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Teamwork over a Long Durée: Sociological Contributions to an Interstellar Probe Mission (Invited) (527239)
Janet A Vertesi, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Interstellar Probe - To Touch Interstellar Space (Invited) (536572)
Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber1, Ralph L McNutt Jr2, Pontus C. Brandt2, Astrid Veronig3, Rosine Lallement4, Benoit Lavraud5, André Galli6, Jan-Erik Wahlund7, Luca Sorriso-Valvo8, Klaus Scherer9, Rami O Vainio10, Qiugang Zong11, Peter Wurz12, Vladislav Izmodenov13, Wing-Huen Ip14, Timothy Simon Horbury15, Jean-Loup Bertaux16 and Iver Hugh Cairns17, (1)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)University of Graz, Institute of Physics, Graz, Austria, (4)Paris Observatory Meudon, GEPI, Meudon, France, (5)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (6)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)IPCF/CNR - Cosenza, Rende (Cs), Italy, (9)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (10)Univ Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (11)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (12)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (13)Space Res Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (14)Natl Central Univ, Chung-Li, Taiwan, (15)Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, (16)Univ. Versailles St Quentin, Guyancourt, France, (17)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
 
In Situ Search for Interstellar Organic Matter with the Interstellar Probe (544781)
Rosine Lallement, Paris Observatory Meudon, GEPI, Meudon, France and Jean-Loup Bertaux, Univ. Versailles St Quentin, Guyancourt, France
 
Thermal Heat Shield Analysis of Solar Thermal Propulsion during an Oberth Maneuver (547317)
Jason J Benkoski, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
The Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) for the Interstellar Probe Mission (549567)
Don E George1, Mihir Indrajit Desai1, Keiichi Ogasawara1, Nathan Schwadron2, Eric R Christian3, Frederic Allegrini4 and Eberhard Moebius2, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Planetary Science with an Interstellar Probe (579027)
Kathleen Mandt1, Pontus C. Brandt2, Ralph L McNutt Jr2, Michael Vincent Paul3, Kirby Runyon1 and Abigail M Rymer4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Th Cross-Divisional Science Opportunities from an Interstellar Probe (579285)
Pontus C. Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and The Interstellar Probe Community Team
 
Interstellar Probe Observations of the Solar System's Debris Disks (591059)
Michael B. Zemcov1, Carey Michael Lisse2, Andrew R Poppe3, Ralph L McNutt Jr4, Pontus C. Brandt4, Mihaly Horanyi5, Charles Beichman6, Jamey R Szalay7 and Bruce Draine8, (1)Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Physics & Astronomy, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, United States
 
MULTI-SPECIES ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE FROM KUIPER BELT OBJECTS (594790)
Orenthal J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert E Johnson, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Enabling a Solar System Escape Mission via the NASA Space Launch System (598973)
Robert Stough, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Steven R. Vernon, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, Brian Wesley Lathrop, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Ralph L McNutt Jr, Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, Michael Vincent Paul, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States and David Smith, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, XP50, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Far Ultraviolet Imaging and Spectral Investigations on an Interstellar Probe (599101)
Kurt D Retherford1, Randy Gladstone1, Cesare Grava2, Michael Wayne Davis1, Philippa Mary Molyneux1 and Thomas K Greathouse1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
How Far Can an Interstellar Probe “See” Using ENAs? (608119)
Andrii Voshchepynets, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden and Stanislav V Barabash, Swedish Inst Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts and Magnetic Flux Rope Structures in the Solar Wind: Spatial Scales at 1 AU and Heliosheath at 100 AU (620850)
Stefan Eriksson, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Daniel N Baker, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, David L Newman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium and Lynn B Wilson III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The Interstellar Probe as a Unique Gateway to Astrophysics (623491)
Michel F. Blanc, IRAP, Toulouse, France and Benoit Lavraud, IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France
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