The list of New Members of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), for the year 2020, is available below: Corresponding Members Basic Sciences Antonietti Nicolo, Italy Campos Luis Braga, Portugal Grundy William M., USA Olkin Catherine B., USA Saito Yoshifumi, Japan Shustov Boris M., Russia Spencer John R., USA Wu Shufan, China Yankiv-Vitkovska Liubov, Ukraine Members Basic Sciences Al-Shidhani Saleh, Oman Bykov Andrei M., Russia Grebenev Sergey A., Russia Kaymaz Zerefsan, Turkey Li Xuelong, China Squyres Steven W., USA Takahashi Tadayuki, Japan Tong Xudong, China Turyshev Vyacheslav, Russia Yefremov Alexander P., Russia Corresponding Members Engineering Sciences Akella Maruthi R., USA Ashok Venkateswaran, India Barrington-Brown James, UK Chaudhary Ravi I., USA Chelaru Teodor-Viorel, Romania Chizea Francis, Nigeria Cichan Timothy, USA Cui Pingyuan, China Ingenito Antonella, Italy Kawamoto Satomi, Japan Lemmens Stijn, Belgium Long Teng, China Martin Gary L., USA May Lisa D., USA Meng Guang, China Miau Jiun-Jih, Taiwan-China Moccia Antonio, Italy Oltrogge Daniel L., USA Reinart Anu, Estonia Romano Marcello, Italy Rong Yi, China Sabatini Marco, Italy Sánchez Ortiz Noelia, Spain Santoni Fabio, Italy Scimemi Samuel J., USA Silnikov Mikhail V., Russia Sparvieri Nicola, Italy Tanaka Koji, Japan Townsend Lawrence W., USA Zhu Zheng Hong, Canada Members Engineering Sciences Al Hashmi Khaled, UAE Baranov Andrey A., Russia Bevilacqua Riccardo, USA Chen Xiaoqian, China Chodas Janis L., USA Denis Gil, France Ferri Paolo, Italy Gratton Livio, Argentina Hanada Toshiya, Japan Howell Kathleen C., USA Jah Moriba, USA Lavagna Michele , Italy Le Franc Jean-Pascal, France Li Detian, China Lohvynenko Anatolii, Ukraine Makino Takashi, Japan Mortari Daniele, USA Natan Benveniste, Israel Palmerini Giovanni B., Italy Pashayev Arif, Azerbaijan Pelzer Walther, Germany Pontani Mauro, Italy Prokhorovich Vladimir, Russia Qiu Jiawen, China Serkin Alexander, Russia Shimada Toru, Japan Sirenko Volodymyr , Ukraine Underwood Craig, UK Corresponding Members Life Sciences Fogarty Jennifer A., USA Reiter Thomas, Germany Smoleevskiy Alexander E., Russia Members Life Sciences Agaptseva Tatiana N., Russia AlMansoori Hazzaa A., UAE Suchet Lionel, France Van Loon Jack J.W.A., Netherla Corresponding Members Social Sciences Bannova Olga, USA Chesley Bruce C., USA Cianci Flaminio, Italy Foust Jeffrey A., USA Giannopapa Christina, France Howard Diane, USA Lukaszczyk Agnieszka, Poland Madry Scott L.H., USA Mejia-Kaiser Martha, Mexico Stelmakh Olga S., Ukraine Sun Gongling, China Vittadini Grazia, Italy Members Social Sciences Al Ahbabi Mohammed, UAE Bezos Jeffrey, USA Clerc Philippe, France Gitsch Michaela, Austria He Zhibin , China Imhof Barbara, Austria Krishna Murthy Yelisetty V., India Medina Tanco Gustavo, Argentina Roman Molinas Alejandro J., Paraguay Szaniawski Michal, Poland Usov Volodymyr, Ukraine Wang Xiaojun, China Wang Qiao, China Wang Tianyi, China Yu Tao, China Zhuao Xiaojin, China Zinoviev Oleksii, Ukraine

The situation related to the Covid-19 virus obliges us to modify the schedule of all Academy meetings as follows: -1st IAA African Symposium on Small Satellites Stellenbosch, South Africa rescheduled 10-13 May 2021 3rd IAA/AAS SciTech Forum Moscow, Russia rescheduled December 08-11, 2020 - IAA Academy Day and 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia rescheduled 28 January 2021 - IAA Academy Day and International Astronautical CongressDubai, EAU, rescheduled 2021 We apologize for this exceptional situation and hope you will understand.

GAUSS and the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) are pleased to report that the 5th edition of the IAA Conference on University Satellite Missions and CubeSat Workshop took place on January 28-31, 2020 in Rome. The Conference dedicated to CubeSats technology was organized by GAUSS Srl and sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), European Space Agency (ESA) and American Astronautical Society (AAS). The Conference offered technical sessions on launch opportunities for universities, ground segment operations, space debris, new perspectives in microsatellites application and several presentations dedicated to CubeSats missions, and on interplanetary missions especially to Mars.

Photo: From left to the right: Jean-Michel Contant, France, Leonardo Mazzini, Italy and Filippo Graziani, Italy.