Conferences

2024 IAA Spring meetings All meetings are at Paris time. Online meetings: Monday 11 March 2024 14h00-16h00 Commission 5 Chair Didier Alary 17h00-19h00 Commission 1 Chair Gerhard Schwehm Tuesday 12 March 2024 14h00-16h00 Commission 4 Chair Paolo Gasbarri 17h00-19h00 Commission 3 Chair Yury Razoumny Wednesday 13 March 2024 14h00-16h00 Commission 2 Chair Antonios Kyparos 17h00-19h00 Commission 6 Chair Olga Bannova Thursday 14 March 2024 15h00-17h00 IAA Scientific Activities Committee (SAC) meeting Chair Ralph McNutt (by invitation only) ——————————————————————————————————————– Hybrid meetings (Online & Face-to-Face): IAA Office, 6 rue Galilée, 75116 Paris, France Monday 25 March 2024 09h00-11h00 IAA Scientific Activities Committee (SAC) Chair Ralph McNutt (by invitation only) 11h00-13h00 IAA History Committee Chair Otfried Liepack 11h00-12h00 IAA Finance Committee meeting Chair Shigeki Kinai (by invitation only) 14h00-17h00 IAA Publication & Communication Committee Chair Marius-Ioan Piso (by invitation only) 14h15-16h15 IAA Study Group 3.30 Space & its Utility in Forecasting & Mitigating Climate Change 17h00-18h30 IAA co-Editors Acta Astronautica Chair Rock Chern (USA) (by invitation only) 19h00-23h00 IAA Gala Dinner  (in advance registration required: deadline March 15, 2024) Tuesday 26 March 2024  09h00-12h00 Awards & Membership Committee Chair Chrysoula Kourtidou-Papadeli (by invitation only) 14h00-19h00 Board of Trustees Chair John Schumacher (by invitation only) Wednesday 27 March 2024  09h00-10h30 IAA Space Debris Committee  Chair Christophe Bonnal (by invitation only) New CAP Conference Center 15h00-17h00 IAA Study Group 4.27 Low cost highly autonomous (AI) small satellite constellation for deep space exploration Chair Yuichiro Nogawa Friday 29 March 2024  10h00-11h30 IAA Space Solar Power Committee Chair John Mankins Photo: IAA

International experts gathered at the International Symposium on Peaceful Use of Space Technology (Health) to discuss innovative applications of space technology. The three-day conference IPSPACE 2023 was held in Beijing, China on November 18-20, 2023 with scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, scholars, professionals in health, spatial IT, education, finance, insurance, energy and representatives from space agencies from all over the world. The theme of IPSPACE 2023 was peaceful use of space technology on human health with the slogan “One Space, One Home”. IPSPACE 2023 was an online and in-person hybrid event with 1 plenary session and 12 breakout sessions that focused on outer space governance under the great changes in the world, as well as green space, lunar protection, commercial aerospace, general aviation and other topics, and discussing the role of space technology in health, education, innovations in environmental protection and other fields, explore new models of international cooperation, and promote sustainable economic and social development. Photo: Group picture of Conference Chairs and Organizers at the Opening Ceremony.

Academy Day Beijing Friday, November 17th 2023 No.88 Nan Cai Yuan Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China 13h30-13h40 Opening Address 13h40-14h30 The IAA: The past two years activity and brief presentation of the future programs by Jean-Michel CONTANT, Secretary General of IAA 14h30-14h45 Videos of IAA Laurels Team Award 2023 14h45-15h15 Inductions of Newly Elected IAA Members and Group Photo 15h15-15h30 Coffee Break 15h30-15h50 Demand and Key Technologies for Asteroid Mining by ZHANG Xuhui, IAA Cooresponding Member, Executive Vice-President of China Academy of Aerospace Science and Innovation 15h50-16h10 Development Statusand Trend of Solidlaunch Vehicle Engine Technology by GAO Bo, IAA Corresponding Member, Vice President of Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technolgy 16h10-16h25 Study on Space-Ground Integrated Rendezvous and Docking Scheme in Lunar Orbit by ZHANG Duzhou, IAA Corresponding Member, Researcher of China Academy of Space Technology 16h25-16h45 Remote Sensing and Monitoring of Land and Resources in Regional Areas by LI Zhizhong, IAA Corresponding Member, Researcher of China SCO Geoscience Satellite Remote Sensing Center 16h45-17h00 Space4All: Moon Science, Exploration, Utilization and Protection by Bernard FOING, IAA Member, Executive Director of Executive Director of ILEWG 17h00 Adjournment Photo: Academy Day Beijing participants and newly elected Academicians

Please see our Media Section to access the most recent press releases issued by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Announcements on IAA new members 2023 and IAA Awards 2023 are now available on the occasion of the October 1st, 2023 Academy Day. Please visit THE ACADEMY/MEDIA/IAA Press Releases Photo: IAA

Academy Day International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Baku, Azerbaijan Sunday October 1st, 2023 Program 09h30  Opening of the Academy Day, John Schumacher, IAA President, 09h45 Laurels for Team Achievement to the International Artemis 1 Mission Team, NASA. 10h05 Laurels for Team Achievement to the Emirates Mars Mission Team, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre/UAE Space Agency/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, USA (Mohsen Al Awadhi) 11h00 Laurels for Team Achievement to the Chang’e-5 Team, CNSA (Wang Qiong, Ren Junjie) 11h45 Lunch (upon registration) Room B1-B2 13h00  32nd IAA Regular Meeting (restricted access) and Induction of the 2023-2025 Board of Trustees 14h45 SG 5.20 Establishing “Rules of the Road” for Satellite Collision Avoidance Maneuver Planning (David Spencer) 15h00 SG 3.30 Space & its Utility in Forecasting & Mitigating Climate Change (Roger Lenard) 15h15 SG 3.31 Solar Energy from Space: A Decadal Revisit to the first International Assessment of  Opportunities, Issues and Potential Pathways Forward (John Mankins) 15h30 SG 2.14 Medical Support for an International Human Expedition to Mars (Elena Fomina) 15h45 SG 3.35 Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Space (Pan Binfeng) 16h00 SG 1.16 Nowcasting Extreme Cosmic Ray Events (Xue Yong) 16h15 SG 4.27 Low cost highly autonomous small satellite constellation for deep space exploration (Yuichiro Nogawa) 16h30 SG 5.19 Opportunities for National Governments to Foster Space Traffic Management using the Space Sustainability Rating (Danielle Wood) 16h30 Discussion 17h00 End of Session 18h30 Cocktails (in advance registration) Mugam Club Restaurant, 9 H. Rzayeva Street part of Icheri Sheher, right by the Maiden Tower, Baku 1004 Azerbaijan 19h00 Induction Ceremonies for Newly Elected IAA Academicians (in advance registration) 19h45 Awards Gala Dinner (in advance registration) 21h15 Awards 22h30 End Photo: IAA

On the occasion of the Academy Day Baku held on October 1st, 2023, the IAA 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement Award was presented to the Chang'e-5 Mission Team. The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievements are given to the Chang’e-5 Team. During the 23-day mission, the Chang’e-5 team successfully completed a complex mission including rocket launching, lunar-earth transfer, lunar sampling, lunar surface takeoff, rendezvous and docking sample transfer, skip re-entry and other processes, and obtained two types of lunar samples of lunar surface sampling and drilling sampling, making outstanding contributions to human lunar and deep space exploration. Through the Chang’e-5 mission, we discovered a new lunar mineral Chang’e-stone, revealed the existence of magmatic activity on the Moon up to 2 billion years, and found a high content of solar wind-caused water. Photo: Chang'e-5 Mission Team.

On the occasion of the Academy Day Baku held on October 1st, 2023, the IAA 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement Award was presented to the Emirates Mars Mission Team. The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement is presented to the international team of engineers, scientists, and managers who, through an extraordinary knowledge partnership, co-developed the Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation, in order to advance our understanding of the Martian atmosphere through synoptic images across all times of day. The Emirates Mars Mission was developed by an international team of 450 engineers, scientists, instrument specialists and project managers, with members from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, UAE, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, Arizona State University and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. This team of outstanding individuals drove the development and operation of the mission at a remarkable pace and with significant innovation. This unique combination of talents was managed as a single, integrated team to deliver an interplanetary mission with a revolutionary approach to mission design, management and execution. With its innovative elliptical orbit and three scientific instruments, the Emirates Mars Mission Hope probe is the first spacecraft at Mars able to make synoptic images across all times of day at visible, thermal infrared and far ultraviolet wavelengths. Photo: Emirates Mars Mission Team.

On the occasion of the Academy Day Baku held on October 1st, 2023, the IAA 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement Award was presented to the International Artemis 1 Mission Team. The 2023 Laurels for Team Achievement recognizing extraordinary performance and achievement by a team of scientists, engineers, technicians, and managers in the field of Astronautics, are given to the Artemis 1 Team. The highly successful international Artemis 1 flight test mission lasted for 25.5 days and traveled over 1.4 million miles on a journey from Earth to the Moon and beyond; and then a safe return to Earth. The Artemis 1 mission proved that NASA’s Space Launch System deep Space rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the ground systems needed for launch and recovery are ready to fly astronauts on missions to the Moon. The SLS rocket flew as designed and with precision; the Orion spacecraft and European Service Module successfully completed all test objectives during a journey of nearly 270,000 miles beyond the Moon and farther than any spacecraft built for humans has flown. The Artemis program is intended to be the broadest and most diverse international human space exploration coalition in history. Photo: John Schumacher (USA), Jean-Michel Contant (France), Elena Fomina (Russia), Marius-Ioan Piso (Romania), Ralph McNutt (USA) and Amit Kshatriya (USA).

SMOPS-2023: International Conference on Spacecraft Mission Operations was held on June 08-09, 2023 in Bangalore, India. Theme of the Conference was Emerging Technologies and Automation in Space Mission Operations and Ground Segment. Many participants gathered to cover a wide range of topics related to mission operations management, advanced mission design, automation, large constellations management, present and future trends in ground station operations, futuristic techniques in both upstream and downstream segments, etc... To access the video of the opening ceremony, please visit the SMOPS conference website in EVENTS / PORTFOLIO OF IAA CONFERENCES / IAA-ISRO-ASI Intl. Conf. on Spacecraft Mission Operations Photo: Opening Ceremony, Bangalore, India.

The 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference took place in Vienna, Austria on 3-7 April 2023 at the Vienna International Centre and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with ESA, the Commission for Geosciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and UNOOSA. The Conference report is now available. The opening ceremony and all other sessions were recorded and are also available on the conference website. The DART mission was presented on this occasion and the video of this event held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is also available online. To access the videos and the report, please visit the PDC conference website in EVENTS / PORTFOLIO OF IAA CONFERENCES / IAA Planetary Defense Conference Photo: Planetary Defense Conference 2023 participants, group picture.