Stephan Ulamec Explained

Stephan Ulamec
Birth Place:	Salzburg, Austria
Citizenship:	Austrian
Fields:	Geophysics
Workplaces:	Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC),Space Operations and Astronaut Training, German Space Agency (DLR)in Cologne, Germany
Thesis Title:	Acoustic and Electrical Methods for the Exploration of Atmospheres and Surfaces, with Application to Saturn's Moon Titan
Thesis Year:	1991
Known For:	Exploration of small bodies in the solar system
Awards:	Sir Arthur Clark Award, 2014.Wernher von Braun Honour, 2015
Website:	https://www.dlr.de/rb/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4535/

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]}

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

See 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

See 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)

See 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

See 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]}

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

• Raumsonde Rosetta .^[28]
• Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik, chapter on Weltraumastronomie und Planetenmissionen .^[29]
• Spacecraft Operations, chapter on Lander Operations .^[30]

Awards and honours

• Member of International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).^{[31] [32]}
• Member of European Geosciences Union (EGU).^{[33] [34]}
• Asteroid (11818) Ulamec was named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).^{[35] [36]}
• Sir Arthur Clark Award, 2014.
• Wernher von Braun Ehrung (in German, honour) by the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR), 2015.^[37]

Representative publications

• Ulamec . Stephan . Biele . Jens . Surface elements and landing strategies for small bodies missions – Philae and beyond . Advances in Space Research . 1 October 2009 . 44 . 7 . 847–858 . 10.1016/j.asr.2009.06.009 . 2009AdSpR..44..847U .
• Ulamec . S. . Kucherenko . V. . Biele . J. . Bogatchev . A. . Makurin . A. . Matrossov . S. . Hopper concepts for small body landers . Advances in Space Research . February 2011 . 47 . 3 . 428–439 . 10.1016/j.asr.2010.09.013 . 2011AdSpR..47..428U .
• Ulamec . Stephan . Biele . Jens . Bousquet . Pierre-W. . Gaudon . Philippe . Geurts . Koen . Ho . Tra-Mi . Krause . Christian . Lange . Caroline . Willnecker . Rainer . Witte . Lars . Landing on small bodies: From the Rosetta Lander to MASCOT and beyond . Acta Astronautica . 2014 . 93 . 460–466 . 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.02.007 . 2014AcAau..93..460U .
• Ulamec . Stephan . Biele . Jens . Blazquez . Alejandro . Cozzoni . Barbara . Delmas . Cedric . Fantinati . Cinzia . Gaudon . Philippe . Geurts . Koen . Jurado . Eric . Küchemann . Oliver . Lommatsch . Valentina . Maibaum . Michael . Sierks . Holger . Witte . Lars . Rosetta Lander – Philae: Landing preparations . Acta Astronautica . February 2015 . 107 . 79–86 . 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.11.019 . 2015AcAau.107...79U .
• Biele . Jens . Ulamec . Stephan . Maibaum . Michael . Roll . Reinhard . Witte . Lars . Jurado . Eric . Muñoz . Pablo . Arnold . Walter . Auster . Hans-Ulrich . Casas . Carlos . Faber . Claudia . Fantinati . Cinzia . Finke . Felix . Fischer . Hans-Herbert . Geurts . Koen . Güttler . Carsten . Heinisch . Philip . Herique . Alain . Hviid . Stubbe . Kargl . Günter . Knapmeyer . Martin . Knollenberg . Jörg . Kofman . Wlodek . Kömle . Norbert . Kührt . Ekkehard . Lommatsch . Valentina . Mottola . Stefano . Pardo de Santayana . Ramon . Remetean . Emile . Scholten . Frank . Seidensticker . Klaus J. . Sierks . Holger . Spohn . Tilman . The landing(s) of Philae and inferences about comet surface mechanical properties . Science . 31 July 2015 . 349 . 6247 . aaa9816 . 10.1126/science.aaa9816 . 26228158 . 2015Sci...349a9816B . 29901828 .
• Ulamec . Stephan . Fantinati . Cinzia . Maibaum . Michael . Geurts . Koen . Biele . Jens . Jansen . Sven . Küchemann . Oliver . Cozzoni . Barbara . Finke . Felix . Lommatsch . Valentina . Moussi-Soffys . Aurelie . Delmas . Cedric . O´Rourke . Laurence . Rosetta Lander – Landing and operations on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko . Acta Astronautica . 1 August 2016 . 125 . 80–91 . 10.1016/j.actaastro.2015.11.029 . 2016AcAau.125...80U .
• Jaumann . R. . Schmitz . N. . Ho . T.-M. . Schröder . S. E. . Otto . K. A. . Stephan . K. . Elgner . S. . Krohn . K. . Preusker . F. . Scholten . F. . Biele . J. . Ulamec . S. . Krause . C. . Sugita . S. . Matz . K.-D. . Roatsch . T. . Parekh . R. . Mottola . S. . Grott . M. . Michel . P. . Trauthan . F. . Koncz . A. . Michaelis . H. . Lange . C. . Grundmann . J. T. . Maibaum . M. . Sasaki . K. . Wolff . F. . Reill . J. . Moussi-Soffys . A. . Lorda . L. . Neumann . W. . Vincent . J.-B. . Wagner . R. . Bibring . J.-P. . Kameda . S. . Yano . H. . Watanabe . S. . Yoshikawa . M. . Tsuda . Y. . Okada . T. . Yoshimitsu . T. . Mimasu . Y. . Saiki . T. . Yabuta . H. . Rauer . H. . Honda . R. . Morota . T. . Yokota . Y. . Kouyama . T. . Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites . Science . 23 August 2019 . 365 . 6455 . 817–820 . 10.1126/science.aaw8627 . 31439797 . 2019Sci...365..817J . 201616571 . free .
• Thomas . N. . Ulamec . S. . Kührt . E. . Ciarletti . V. . Gundlach . B. . Yoldi . Z. . Schwehm . G. . Snodgrass . C. . Green . S. F. . Towards New Comet Missions . Space Science Reviews . December 2019 . 215 . 8 . 47 . 10.1007/s11214-019-0611-0 . 2019SSRv..215...47T . 208652862 . free . 20.500.11820/c37de5be-9dbc-493c-ad57-e37b2978e970 . free .
• Michel . Patrick . Ulamec . Stephan . Böttger . Ute . Grott . Matthias . Murdoch . Naomi . Vernazza . Pierre . Sunday . Cecily . Zhang . Yun . Valette . Rudy . Castellani . Romain . Biele . Jens . Tardivel . Simon . Groussin . Olivier . Jorda . Laurent . Knollenberg . Jörg . Grundmann . Jan Thimo . Arrat . Denis . Pont . Gabriel . Mary . Stephane . Grebenstein . Markus . Miyamoto . Hirdy . Nakamura . Tomoki . Wada . Koji . Yoshikawa . Kent . Kuramoto . Kiyoshi . The MMX rover: performing in situ surface investigations on Phobos . Earth, Planets and Space . December 2022 . 74 . 1 . 2 . 10.1186/s40623-021-01464-7 . 2022EP&S...74....2M . 234254574 . free .
• Michel . Patrick . Küppers . Michael . Bagatin . Adriano Campo . Carry . Benoit . Charnoz . Sébastien . Leon . Julia de . Fitzsimmons . Alan . Gordo . Paulo . Green . Simon F. . Hérique . Alain . Juzi . Martin . Karatekin . Özgür . Kohout . Tomas . Lazzarin . Monica . Murdoch . Naomi . Okada . Tatsuaki . Palomba . Ernesto . Pravec . Petr . Snodgrass . Colin . Tortora . Paolo . Tsiganis . Kleomenis . Ulamec . Stephan . Vincent . Jean-Baptiste . Wünnemann . Kai . Zhang . Yun . Raducan . Sabina D. . Dotto . Elisabetta . Chabot . Nancy . Cheng . Andy F. . Rivkin . Andy . Barnouin . Olivier . Ernst . Carolyn . Stickle . Angela . Richardson . Derek C. . Thomas . Cristina . Arakawa . Masahiko . Miyamoto . Hirdy . Nakamura . Akiko . Sugita . Seiji . Yoshikawa . Makoto . Abell . Paul . Asphaug . Erik . Ballouz . Ronald-Louis . Bottke . William F. . Lauretta . Dante S. . Walsh . Kevin J. . Martino . Paolo . Carnelli . Ian . The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos . The Planetary Science Journal . July 2022 . 3 . 7 . 160 . 10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52 . 2022PSJ.....3..160M . 250599919 . free . 10045/125568 . free .

Further reading

Related articles

• Geophysics
• Near Earth Objects
• Rovers
• Solar System

Official agencies external links

• https://www.gov.uk/government/news/philae-finds-hard-ice-and-organic-molecules
• https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2014/09/Rosetta_Mission_Status/Stephan_Ulamec_Philae_Lander_Manager_DLR_ITV_in_German
• https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2014/11/Rosetta_wrap_up
• https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/02/Philae_facing_eternal_hibernation
• https://www.eso.org/public/archives/capjournals/pdf/capj_0019.pdf (An Historic Encounter: Reviewing the Outreach around ESA’s Rosetta Mission: pages 44 to 47)

Media coverage

• Comet lander's scientific harvest may be its last: Philae has fallen silent after fragmentary messages
• The return of Philae: Revived after hibernation, comet lander awaits orders
• (in French) https://www.sudouest.fr/sciences-et-technologie/mission-rosetta-il-est-temps-de-dire-au-revoir-a-philae-3689370.php
• https://www.science.org/content/article/philae-s-scientific-harvest-may-be-its-last
• Gibney . Elizabeth . Five factors that will decide if Philae wakes . Nature . 7 May 2015 . 10.1038/nature.2015.17488 . 189679397 .
• Castelvecchi . Davide . Daring Japanese mission reaches unexplored asteroid Ryugu . Nature . 26 June 2018 . 558 . 7711 . 495–496 . 10.1038/d41586-018-05544-9 . 29946100 . 2018Natur.558..495C . 256770178 . free .
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-ryugu-poses-landing-risks-for-japanese-mission/
• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/14/rise-and-shine-rosettas-philae-probe-could-be-awake-within-weeks
• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30qpfs
• https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/philae-lander-goes-to-sleep-after-sending-data-to-earth-1.2002692
• https://spacenews.com/esa-moves-two-missions-to-falcon-9/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stefan Ulamec - Vortrag anlässlich 400 Jahren Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg . 2023-01-31 . Castbox . de.
2. Web site: Stephan Ulamec - Search Results - PubMed . 2023-07-18 . PubMed . en.
3. Web site: Google Scholar . 2023-07-18 . scholar.google.co.uk.
4. Web site: Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus . 2023-02-13 . www.scopus.com.
5. Web site: Menschen . fh-aachen.de.
6. Web site: Publikationen . 2023-01-31 . FH Aachen . de-DE.
7. Web site: Scopus preview - Ulamec, Stephan - Author details - Scopus . 2023-02-09 . www.scopus.com.
8. Web site: S Ulamec . 2022-10-26 . ResearchGate.
9. Web site: Astronaut Training . 2023-01-31 . Global Speakers Bureau.
10. Web site: Mapp . Neo . Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D. . 2023-02-09 . NEO MAPP . 3 February 2020 . en-US.
11. Web site: ORCID . 2022-10-26 . orcid.org.
12. Web site: DLR - Contact Stephan Ulamec . 2023-02-10 . SERVICE_CONTACT DLR Portal . en.
13. Web site: Search - Archive ouverte HAL . 2023-02-10 . hal.science . en.
14. Web site: Federation . International Astronautical . IAF : Stephan ULAMEC . 2022-10-26 . www.iafastro.org . en.
15. Web site: Philae touchdown: lander status and first descent image . 2022-10-25 . www.esa.int . en.
16. Web site: Touchdown! . 2022-10-25 . www.esa.int . en.
17. MASCOT operations on Ryugu - focus on some specific tasks . DLR . 20 October 2019 . 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 . Science objectives of the MMX rover . Acta Astronautica . September 2023 . 210 . 95–101 . 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.05.012 . 2023AcAau.210...95U . 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 . A rover for the JAXA MMX Mission to Phobos . 70th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2019 . 20 October 2019 . IAC–19 . International Astronautical Federation .
20. Web site: DLR - Space Operations and Astronaut Training - Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission . 2023-02-15 . www.dlr.de.
21. Web site: 2023-07-03 . Le rover de la mission MMX baptisé IDEFIX® ! . 2023-07-18 . Mmx . fr.
22. Web site: HERA Mission Team . 2022-10-25 . Hera Mission . en-US.
23. Web site: Hera . 2022-10-25 . www.esa.int . en.
24. Web site: Mapp . Neo . Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D. . 2022-10-25 . NEO MAPP . en-US.
25. Web site: German Aerospace Center Germany . 2023-02-13 . NEO MAPP . en-US.
26. Web site: Members - SSEWG - Cosmos . 2023-02-10 . www.cosmos.esa.int.
27. Web site: Members - SSAC - Cosmos . 2022-10-26 . www.cosmos.esa.int.
28. Book: Möhlmann . Diedrich . Raumsonde Rosetta: die abenteuerlliche Reise zum unbekannten Kometen ; [das Buch zur Mission] ]. Ulamec . Stephan . 2014 . Kosmos . 978-3-440-13083-4 . de.
29. Book: Handbuch der Raumfahrttechnik . 2019-01-14 . Hanser Fachbuchverlag. 45296492M . de.
30. Book: Uhlig . Thomas . Spacecraft Operations . Sellmaier . Florian . Schmidhuber . Michael . 2014-08-20 . Springer . 978-3-7091-1803-0 . en.
31. Web site: Commissions – IAA . 4 January 2020 . 2023-02-10 . en-US.
32. Web site: 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 . 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 . en.
34. Ulamec . Stephan . Michel . Patrick . Grott . Matthias . Böttger . Ute . Hübers . Heinz-Willhelm . Cho . Yuichiro . Rull . Fernando . Murdoch . Naomi . Vernazza . Pierre . Biele . Jens . Tardivel . Simon . Miyamoto . Hirdy . 2022-03-25 . Phobos Surface Science with the MMX Rover . en.
35. Web site: Mapp . Neo . Stephan Ulamec, Ph.D. . 2023-02-09 . NEO MAPP . 3 February 2020 . en-US.
36. Web site: Small-Body Database Lookup . 2023-02-09 . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov.
37. Web site: Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2015 - DLRK 2015: Aktuell . 2023-02-13 . www.dlrk2015.dglr.de.