Bernard Foing

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Bernard Foing (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a French scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA),[1] Executive Director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG)[2] and was Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon.[3] He is also a research professor at the VU Amsterdam and at Florida Tech.[4]

Biography

Born in France,[5] Bernard Foing has a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques.[6] He worked 3 years in Chile as an astronomer for the European Southern Observatory (ESO),[6] the French embassy, and as Professor of Astrophysics.[5] A researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1986,[7] Foing obtained the Habilitation for direction of research in 1990.[7] At ESA since 1993, he is Senior Research Coordinator at the Research and Scientific Support Department.[6] He was president of ILEWG in 1998-2000 and now is their Executive Director.[6] Foing collaborates with his wife, Pascale Ehrenfreund of the German Aerospace Center, in some of his research.[8]

SMART-1

Foing is known as the father of SMART-1.[2][9] Serving as Principal Project Scientist from conception in 1996,[3] SMART-1 was the first European mission to the Moon.[10] SMART-1's goals were both technological and scientific.[11] First in a series of "Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology",[11] SMART-1 was used to test new state-of-the art instruments such as a solar-electric primary propulsion system.[12] SMART-1 also performed scientific observations of the Moon including determining the Moon's mineralogical composition and the presence and quantity of water in the craters at the Moon's south pole.[12] Launched on September 27, 2003,[13] SMART-1 entered lunar orbit in November 2004[14] and continued orbit until it was intentionally crashed into the lunar surface on September 3, 2006.[15][16] Said Foing, "SMART-1 data are helping to choose future landing sites for robotic and possible manned missions, and its instruments are upgraded and being flown again on the next generation of lunar satellites."[17]

Mars Express

Foing is an organic chemist for Mars Express,[18] a space exploration mission by the European Space Agency.[19] Launched on June 2, 2004,[20] Mars Express is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency.[19] Foing is also co-investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) for the Mars Express orbiter.[21] The HRSC is a high-resolution camera that can make full-color 3-D images of Mars's surface.[22] The camera can also zoom in for a closer look and may be helpful in identifying useful landing sites for future Mars missions.[22]

Bibliography

Foing has published over 400 articles, including 160 refereed papers, in lunar and planetary science and exploration, solar/stellar physics and astrobiology.[5] He edited 16 books and organized over 50 international conferences and symposia.[5]

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