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Global Conference on Space Research

  • 16 Jul 2024

On July 15th, 2024, the 45th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly began in Busan, South Korea, aiming to foster international space research. Around 3,000 space scientists and industry officials from 60 nations attended.

Key Points

  • First time South Korea is hosting the biennial global conference.
  • The objectives COSPAR Assemblies are to promote on an international level scientific research in space, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information and opinions and to provide a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research.

COSPAR

  • The International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), now the International Science Council (ISC), established its Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) during an international meeting in London in 1958.
  • COSPAR’s first Space Science Symposium was organized in Nice in January 1960.