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DGP Workshops: Enceladus + Moon

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L4 Enceladus Workshop


September 28-29, 2026


In preparation for the upcoming DLR and ESA L4 workshops, we aim to meet with a broader community and provide a platform for exchange. This collaborative effort will help identify synergies and pave the way for potential L4 partnerships.
Enceladus is a small icy moon of Saturn with a global ocean under its ice shell. It vents ocean material into space through plumes at its south pole, and a spacecraft can sample that material from orbit or at the surface. This makes it one of the more accessible places to study habitability in the outer Solar System, and it is under discussion as the target of ESA's fourth large-class mission (L4).
A mission of this size carries many instruments, and there is considerable German expertise across the relevant instrumentation and science. This workshop brings that community together before the ESA call. The aim is to collect the instrument contributions people can offer, set them against the mission's science objectives, and coordinate them, so that the German community approaches ESA together rather than as separate groups. The result is an organized overview of the possible contributions and of where coverage is strong or thin.

Program

This is a working meeting, not a series of talks, and most of the work happens beforehand. Ahead of the meeting, participants are encouraged — though not required - to submit two short forms: one for an instrument they could contribute, one for expertise they can offer.

▶ L4 Enceladus Workshop Forms

Based on this feedback form, the scientific organizing committee assembles a single overview: the instruments set against the mission's science objectives, for both lander and orbiter.
At the meeting we go through this overview together. Small groups merge overlapping proposals and put instrument teams in contact with the science and expertise they need. The plenum then reviews where the objectives are well covered and where they are not. A writing group compiles the outcome into one document summarizing the instrument contributions and how they map onto the mission's objectives.
A preliminary schedule is given below; a more detailed version will follow closer to the date.

L4 Enceladus Workshop — Programme

German instrument contributions to ESA's L4 mission · 28–29 September 2026

Universität Münster, Institut für Planetologie · GEO 1, Heisenbergstraße 2

Day 1

Monday, 28 September 2026

12:00–13:00
Registration & light lunch Break
13:00–13:20
Welcome and aim of the workshop Plenary Why we meet before the ESA call; what we want to leave with.
13:20–14:30
The landscape, walked through Plenary The SOC presents the pre-built matrix: instruments set against the STM objectives, on lander and orbiter.
14:30–15:00
Coffee Break
15:00–16:15
Splinter groups I — consolidation Working Groups work through overlapping instrument offers and merge where it makes sense.
16:15–16:45
Coffee Break
16:45–18:00
Splinter groups II — matchmaking Working Connect instrument teams with the science and expertise offered; pair thin rows with objectives that need coverage.
18:00
Close of day 1
19:00
Dinner Social Participants cover their own costs. Details to follow.

Day 2

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

08:30–09:00
Where we stand Plenary Short recap of what the splinter groups changed on the matrix.
09:00–10:30
Reading the matrix Plenary Go through the updated landscape together: where coverage is strong, where it is thin, what the columns and rows say. Labels read off the matrix as facts.
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–11:45
Summary document Working Name a writing group and agree the outline: the instrument contributions and how they map onto the mission's objectives.
11:45–12:00
Next steps and close Plenary Who does what, and by when.
12:00
End of the L4 workshop Changeover to the Moon ISRU workshop.
Plenary — everyone together Working session — splinter groups Break / social
Most of the work is done beforehand: participants are encouraged — though not required — to send in two short forms (an instrument, and expertise offered), from which the SOC builds the landscape. Times are a guide and may shift on the day.


Dinner

Dinner on Monday evening (September 28) at Caputo's (Königsstraße 59, 48143 Münster) with participants covering their own costs.

Scientific Organizing Committee

  • Bastian Gundlach, Universität Münster (lead)
  • Maximilian Hamm, FU Berlin
  • Hauke Hussmann, DLR Berlin
  • Norbert Krupp, MPS Göttingen
  • Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR Berlin
  • Ganya Portyankina, DLR Berlin
  • Frank Postberg, FU Berlin
  • Tina Rückriemen-Bez, Universität Münster
  • Ralf Srama, Universität Stuttgart

Local Organizing Committee

  • Tina Rückriemen-Bez, Universität Münster (lead)
  • Paula Maria Heitmann, Universität Münster
  • Kerstin Klemm, Universität Münster
  • Nathalie Walter, Universität Münster
  • Philipp Marius Kost, Universität Münster
  • Lukas Bannemann, Universität Münster
  • Moritz Goldmann, Universität Münster