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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 COSPAR Outstanding Paper Awards.
COSPAR, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the Moon Village Association-Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities (MVA-GEGSLA) are jointly holding a brainstorming call about Sites of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI).
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The Panel on Innovative Solutions (PoIS) has launched an exciting public challenge in support of the Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS). PoIS is calling on the worldwide community of professionals and enthusiasts to tackle one of the most pressing issues in space exploration: space debris tracking.
The Call for Abstracts for the 6th COSPAR Symposium, 3 - 7 November 2025, Nicosia, Cyprus, is now available. The submission deadline is 4 April 2025.
Save the Date: 5th February 2025! COSPAR will be hosting a side event during the 62nd Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS): Apophis 2029: Advancing Science and Planetary Defense in the International Year of Asteroid Awareness
On 14 and 21 December Brunei Darussalam and The Philippines became members of COSPAR with the Universiti Brunei Darussalam and the Philippine Space Agency as the national scientific institutes. The COSPAR community extends a warm welcome to both new members.
COSPAR is pleased to announce that "Titan after Cassini-Huygens", the first volume in the COSPAR Book Series in collaboration with Elsevier, will be available as of 23 January 2025.
Three recent articles from one of our flagship journals, Advances in Space Research, have been made Open Access (OA) for the next three months, courtesy of Elsevier:
COSPAR Bureau member Vassilis Angelopoulos is the speaker for the ISSI webinar on "Plasma Acceleration in Near-Earth Space" that will take place on 24 October. See the announce and join the online seminar.