Sentences with phrase «planetary protection requirements»

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Cassie Conley, the planetary protection office's longtime chief, will face competition to keep her job, and she could be replaced by someone with less strict views on sterilization requirements.

So the international Committee on Space Research (called COSPAR) has debated and refined the details of a planetary protection policy that meets the treaty's requirement ever since.

«It was clear to everybody that we need more refined technical requirements, not just guidelines,» says Gerhard Kminek, planetary protection officer for the European Space Agency and chair of COSPAR's planetary protection panel, which sets the standards.

«When we landed the Huygens probe on Titan, we had no idea what we'd find on the surface, so it was really the discoveries of Huygens and Cassini that led to these new [planetary protection] requirements,» says Spilker.