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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly: COSPAR 2021 - Hybrid
COSPAR 2021-Hybrid, Sydney, Australia, 28 January - 4 February 2021 and 24/7 wherever you are. Details on how the largely virtual Scientific Assembly will work now available. New abstracts may be submitted at this link through 5 October 2020.
International Science Council (ISC) Announces New Awards Program
COSPAR's mother organization, the International Science Council (ISC), is pleased to announce the creation of its new awards program.
Updated COSPAR Policy on Planetary Protection
The COSPAR Bureau approved an updated Policy on Planetary Protection on 17 June 2020. The updated version of the policy and an introductory note are published in Space Research Today, No 208, August 2020, Pages 10-22. The Introductory Note and the most recent version of the COSPAR Policy on Planetary Protection are also available from the Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP) web page.
COSPAR Smallsat Town Hall Webinars
The COSPAR Task Group on establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites (TGCSS) will hold three webinars to explore this concept. The American zone webinar took place 2 September. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/G0VBgGCaaKw. The Asia/Oceania sector is scheduled for 29 September 2020 at 15:30 (Beijing time, GMT+8), and the European/Mid-East/Africa sector will follow about 2 weeks later. To anticipate attendance levels, those interested in the European/Mid-East/Africa webinar should express their interest by sending a message to COSPAR and for the Asia/Oceania webinar to ISSI-BJ.
New Adhering Member Institution Reports to COSPAR Now Available
Advances in Space Research - Special Issues
- Nova Eruptions, Cataclysmic Variables and Related Systems: Challenges in the 2020 Era, Edited by Şölen Balman, Volume 66, Issue 5, 1 September 2020. Preface free to read through July 2021.
- Advances in Small Satellites for Space Science, Edited by Loren C. Chang, Amal Chandran, Volume 66, Issue 1, 1 July 2020. Preface free to read through May 2021.
- ASR special issue “Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and their Connection to Space Weather” has been chosen as a featured issues on Elsevier's Physics and Astronomy page and is, therefore, free to read until 31 December 2020.
COSPAR Outstanding Paper Awards for Young Scientists
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists. All the papers are available free to read until 3 August 2021.
Advances in Space Research: 2019 Impact Factor and CiteScore
The 2019 Impact Factor for ASR is 2.177, up from 1.746 in 2018, and the journal also has a 2019 CiteScore of 3.8.
Life Sciences in Space Research (LSSR): CiteScore and Impact Factor
Advances in Space Research (ASR) Most Cited Articles - Free to Read
- Free to read through end 2020, ASR’s most cited article historically: The Multi-GNSS Experiment (MGEX) of the International GNSS Service (IGS) – Achievements, prospects and challenges.
- Free to read through end 2020, the top 5 most cited articles published in 2018 and the top 5 most cited articles published in 2019 (10 articles in total).