Life Sciences in Space Research (LSSR) Most Cited Articles - Free to Read

Free to read through end 2020, the top five most cited articles published in 2018 and 2019.

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.

• Space Weather Events in Solar Cycle 22: deadline 1 August 2021
• Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Characterization of Natural and Manmade Features: deadline 30 April 2021

2020 Nobel Laureates: Free Access to Papers Published in ASR

COSPAR congratulates the laureates of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.  All have published in Advances in Space Research (ASR), and we invite you to read for free a selection of these papers.

• Reinhard Genzel:  Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole (2010)
• Andrea Ghez: The galactic center black hole: Clues for the evolution of black holes in galactic nuclei (1999)

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

• Czech Republic_2019
• Slovak Republic 2018 – 2019
• Switzerland 2018 - 2020
• Ukraine 2018

The International Astronautical Federation

• 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC):  the CyberSpace Edition, 12 - 14 October 2020.
• Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), 14 - 18 June 2021, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
• 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 25 - 29 October 2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC), 31 May - 2 June 2022, Oslo, Norway.
• 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 18 - 22 September 2022, Paris, France
• 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 25 - 29 September 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan

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.