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]
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]
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 JAXAHayabusa2 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.
He is also part of the Science Management Board for the ESA Hera mission, to be launched in 2024 with a Space XFalcon 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]
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.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]
Ulamec, Stephan; Biele, Jens (1 October 2009). "Surface elements and landing strategies for small bodies missions – Philae and beyond". Advances in Space Research44 (7): 847–858. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2009.06.009. Bibcode: 2009AdSpR..44..847U.
Ulamec, S.; Kucherenko, V.; Biele, J.; Bogatchev, A.; Makurin, A.; Matrossov, S. (February 2011). "Hopper concepts for small body landers". Advances in Space Research47 (3): 428–439. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.09.013. Bibcode: 2011AdSpR..47..428U.
Biele, Jens; Ulamec, Stephan; Maibaum, Michael; Roll, Reinhard; Witte, Lars; Jurado, Eric; Muñoz, Pablo; Arnold, Walter et al. (31 July 2015). "The landing(s) of Philae and inferences about comet surface mechanical properties". Science349 (6247). doi:10.1126/science.aaa9816. PMID26228158. Bibcode: 2015Sci...349a9816B.
Jaumann, R.; Schmitz, N.; Ho, T.-M.; Schröder, S. E.; Otto, K. A.; Stephan, K.; Elgner, S.; Krohn, K. et al. (23 August 2019). "Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites". Science365 (6455): 817–820. doi:10.1126/science.aaw8627. PMID31439797. Bibcode: 2019Sci...365..817J.
Thomas, N.; Ulamec, S.; Kührt, E.; Ciarletti, V.; Gundlach, B.; Yoldi, Z.; Schwehm, G.; Snodgrass, C. et al. (December 2019). "Towards New Comet Missions". Space Science Reviews215 (8): 47. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0611-0. Bibcode: 2019SSRv..215...47T.
Michel, Patrick; Ulamec, Stephan; Böttger, Ute; Grott, Matthias; Murdoch, Naomi; Vernazza, Pierre; Sunday, Cecily; Zhang, Yun et al. (December 2022). "The MMX rover: performing in situ surface investigations on Phobos". Earth, Planets and Space74 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01464-7. Bibcode: 2022EP&S...74....2M.
Michel, Patrick; Küppers, Michael; Bagatin, Adriano Campo; Carry, Benoit; Charnoz, Sébastien; Leon, Julia de; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Gordo, Paulo et al. (July 2022). "The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos". The Planetary Science Journal3 (7): 160. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac6f52. Bibcode: 2022PSJ.....3..160M.
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