Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Both the US and Japan have extensive experience in space exploration missions in deep space and this panel will discuss past, present, and future missions that showcase US and Japan shared interests in such exploration.

Moderator
●　Hiro Ono, Group Supervisor of the Robotic Motility Group at JPL

Panelists
(1) Tomohiro Usui, Professor in the Department of Solar System Sciences, JAXA
(2) Charles Whetsel, Manager of the Moon to Mars Support Office, JPL
(3) Stacy Weinstein-Weiss, Uranus Orbiter and Probe Team Lead at JPL
(4) John Eiler, Professor of Geology and Geochemistry at Caltech
(5) Chas Beichman, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Executive Director, IPAC

Watch the next video: youtu.be/YXoIvxOk8Yc


00:00 Intro
00:48 Hiro Ono
03:10 Tomohiro Usui
08:43 Charles Whetsel
15:57 Stacy Weinstein-Weiss
21:15 John Eiler
26:51 Chas Beichman
32:49 Q&A Session

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