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III. COSPAR Awards
International Association of Planetary Sciences (IAPS)
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
IUGG/International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IUGG/IAGA)
CASDEN Banque Populaire
CTO “Events” Agency Ltd.
European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA)
European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA)
IUGG/International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IUGG/IAMAS)
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
La Jolla Sciences
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris
Royal Observatory of Belgium
South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
Lockheed Martin - primary contributor in 2014 to the COSPAR grants program
LSR Group
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
Pan American Association of Computational Interdisciplinary Sciences (PACIS)
RadioNet3 - RadioNet3 is made possible by the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Contract No .283393
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
SPARC – Stratosphere-troposphere Process and their Role in Climate
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
COSPAR Space Science Award
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The COSPAR Space Science Award recognizes outstanding contributions to space science in the fields covered by the Committee on Space Research.
III. COSPAR Awards The following awards, with the exception of the Outstanding Paper Awards for Young Scientists, were presented during a ceremony which closed the formal activities of the inaugural day of the Moscow Assembly. The names of recipients of the Outstanding Paper Awards were read during the ceremony, but the awardees present at the Assembly were given their certificates and introduced at the same time to their peers in the scientific community at the relevant open Scientific Commission and Panel business meetings.
In 2014 two COSPAR Awards were given: to David J. McComas (USA) and to Jean-Loup Puget (France). Giovanni Bignami (COSPAR President) read the citations.
Sponsorship of the scientific programme:
American Astronomical Society / Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS/DPS)
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Dr. David J. McComas is the Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas and Adjoint Professor in
participated on and chaired important panels and committees for the American Geophysical Union, the US National Academy, and NASA; he currently serves as the Chairman of the NASA Advisory Council’s Science Committee. David J. McComas is a most deserving recipient of this award. David J. McComas’ Response I am incredibly honoured and humbled to be receiving COSPAR’s Space Science Award. It is really a tribute not to me, but to all of the great scientists, engineers, and others that I have been privileged to work with at Southwest Research Institute, before that at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and to all of my many other outstanding colleagues and collaborators from around the world. COSPAR plays a key and central role in the pursuit of space science across the globe and I am particularly honoured to be receiving this award from such an illustrious international organization. Thank you all very much!
David J. McComas
the joint University of Texas, San Antonio— SwRI graduate programme in physics, which he helped to establish in 2004. Dr. McComas received his B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1980 and Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA in 1986. Prior to SwRI, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and served as Group Leader for Space and Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Program Manager, and founding Director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration. Dr. McComas is the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutralatom Spectrometers (TWINS) missions as well as for the Ulysses-SWOOPS, ACE-SWEPAM, Juno-JADE, New Horizons-SWAP, and Solar Probe Plus-ISIS instruments. Dr. McComas and his team have provided much of the data used by the space science community to study the 3-D solar wind and its interactions with Earth’s magnetosphere, its interactions with other planetary magnetospheres and solar system bodies, and its interactions with the local interstellar medium. Dr. McComas has contributed profoundly to exploring our heliospheric home and to understanding the complex physical processes that control its evolution. He has been a regular contributor to the scientific exchanges of COSPAR Commissions for over thirty years and has
Dr. Jean-Loup Puget
Dr. Jean-Loup Puget has been the Principal Investigator since 1995 of the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) of the Planck Mission. He served as Deputy Director of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris from 1978 to 1982. After a position in the Space Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Physics Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure and then in 1989 6
the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (Orsay), serving as Deputy Director from 1990 until 1998 when he became Director (1998-2006). In 1971, in the framework of his Ph.D thesis work at the Goddard Space Flight Center, he worked on the prediction of gamma rays issued from the annihilation at the boundaries matterantimatter with the first gamma ray satellite (SAS2). He got his Ph.D in 1973 (Paris University). This work was expanded with the first interpretation of the galactic gamma rays emission. He led the work which ended up with the first detection of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) in the COBE-FIRAS data. His work on dust emission led to the discovery of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules (PAHs). He acted as Mission Scientist on the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) of ESA. For about twenty years he has been the leader of HFI on Planck, with subKelvin cooling of the detectors for the first time in space. Among the major cosmological results particularly noteworthy are: the highprecision determination of cosmological parameters, spatial flatness, no evidence for additional neutrino-like relativistic particles and an upper limit of 0.23 eV for the summed neutrino mass. He and his collaborators are also performing a careful analysis of the polarisation data, taking great care of all observational and instrumental biases. Dr. J.L. Puget has authored more than 200 refereed scientific publications and has been a regular contributor at COSPAR Assemblies. He has been member and chairman of many national and international scientific committees for ESA, ESO, the French Academy, and he is now chairman of the Science Programme Committee of the French space agency (CNES).
space projects which were very large international collaborations: the ISO as a mission scientist, and Herschel-Planck as PI of the High Frequency Instrument. Large international collaborations distributing data sets to the world scientific community are very much in the spirit of COSPAR aims, and I receive this award in the names of all those who contributed to these projects.
COSPAR International Cooperation Medal This medal, awarded for significant contributions to the promotion of cooperative, international scientific endeavour, was presented to Carlé McGetchin Pieters (USA). The text of the citation, read by Ji Wu, COSPAR Vice-President, is given below.
Professor Carlé McGetchin Pieters receiving her award from Vice-President Professor Ji Wu
Professor Carlé Pieters has spent her career enabling international cooperation in science, beginning as a science teacher in Sarawak Malaysia with the Peace Corp. before she entered college and culminating most recently in providing the M3 Spectrometer for India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission that allowed it to establish the presence and distribution of water on the Moon.
Given these accomplishments and more, Dr. Jean-Loup Puget is a most worthy recipient of the COSPAR Space Science Award. Jean-Loup Puget’s Response It is a great honour to be presented with the 2014 COSPAR Award, and I thank the COSPAR Bureau for awarding it to me. I have worked in space science for 40 years now since 1970 on SAS2 gamma ray survey data. During this period I have contributed to leading major
After receiving her Bachelor, Masters and Ph. D degrees from MIT she joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center until 1980 when she went to Brown University where she is currently a professor of geological sciences.
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productive and important to the world, but is also most enjoyable and rewarding. Thank you!
There she managed the Reflectance Experiment Laboratory that is used worldwide for the interpretation of spacecraft and telescopic data from planetary bodies. She also served as a member of the Japanese Kaguya Science Team, leading an international cross-calibration effort of the optical teams from several lunar missions. On NASA’s Dawn mission she is working closely with the Italian Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team and the German Framing Camera team to understand the surfaces of Vesta and soon Ceres. Other international activities include chairing the United Kingdom – NASA MoonLITE Science Evaluation Board and serving as president of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group.
COSPAR William Nordberg Medal The Nordberg Medal was presented to Mikhail Ya. Marov (Russia) by Lev Zelenyi, COSPAR Bureau member, to recognize his distinguished contributions to the application of space science as summarized in the following citation.
Throughout her career she has been a major player in the study of the Moon and the asteroid belt not only from the surface of the Earth but in space as well, from the lunar Clementine mission to the Dawn mission in operation in the asteroid belt today. In parallel with her research efforts, she has strongly supported the dissemination of science through COSPAR’s Advances in Space Research and the COSPAR Scientific Assemblies as an active member of Commission B. In summary, Professor Pieters has been a most productive international scientific citizen from her early days as a science teacher in Malaysia to the recent outstanding successes of her spectrometer for Chandrayaan. Carlé Pieters is indeed a most deserving recipient for the 2014 COSPAR International Cooperation Medal.
Academician Mikhail Ya. Marov
Academician Mikhail Marov has made many distinguished contributions to the application of space science. His achievements and fundamental contributions to space science, planetary research and the study of natural mechanisms on the terrestrial planets with implications for Earth using a comparative planetology approach are truly outstanding.
Carlé Pieters’ Response This award is an enormous honour and I am greatly humbled by it. International cooperation spans the four “C’s”—beginning with Communication among colleagues, and expanding through Coordination of activities, developing Collaboration on projects, and then full Cooperation of partners. I sincerely thank our Russian hosts and colleagues with whom I have been pleased to work, as well as many other dear colleagues in Ukraine, India, Japan, Europe, China, Korea, Canada and the US. Space ccience and exploration is an expanding multilateral activity that is not only highly
In particular, Professor Marov served as Project Scientist and Principal Investigator on the VENERA and MARS lander series in the Soviet Union and also made great contributions to the LUNA, VEGA and PHOBOS GRUNT space projects. He also was responsible for implementation of the first in situ measurements in the Venus and Mars atmospheres as well as development of models used for the design of the Venera landers 8
which had to survive in the hot and dense atmosphere on Venus’ surface. He has also been involved in fundamental studies and pioneering research in the Earth’s aeronomy with application for evaluation of artificial satellite and orbital station lifetime and ozone layer decay depending on the abundance of minor constituents in the middle atmosphere. His investigation of radiative and convective transfer applied to the Venera lander design enabled transmission of the first surface images and measurements of soil composition. Furthermore, his development of the theory of turbulent multicomponent reactive gases and rarefied gas kinetics is significant for advanced modelling procedures and important scientific and technical applications such as protoplanetary gas-dust disc evolution and primordial planetary bodies formation, light scattering by aerosols of natural and antropogenic origin, estimate of Martian ancient ocean loss, gas-oil industry, etc. And to cite one last accomplishment, his study of migration processes and estimates of the delivery of water and volatiles to Earth and terrestrial planets has implications for understanding the early history of the solar system evolution.
COSPAR Massey Award The citation for this award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of space research in which a leadership role is of particular importance, and which consists of a gold medal, was read by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, COSPAR Bureau member. The recipient was Eugene Churazov (Germany / Russia).
Dr. Eugene Churazov
Dr. Eugene Churazov received his M.S. (summa cum laude) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1985) and his Ph.D. (1989) and Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1996) from the Space Research Institute (Moscow). Dr. Churazov was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and currently holds joint appointments at the Institute for Space Research (Moscow, Russia) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Garching, Germany). Dr. Churazov was one of the central figures in the Russian-led international missions MIR-KVANT (19872001) and GRANAT (1989-1998), and made important contributions to the ESA-led INTEGRAL mission (launched by a Russian Proton rocket and operating since 2002) and presently participates in the ESA Athena+ mission. In addition, Dr. Churazov is the Russian deputy PI of the Russian-German Spectrum-X mission.
Mikhail Marov is, indeed, a most deserving recipient for the 2014 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal. Response of Mikhail Marov Let me express my deep gratitude for the great honour of receiving the COSPAR William Nordberg Medal Award. My entire career has been devoted to space science and applications. I had the unique chance to be in the core of the Soviet and Russian space programmes, specifically in lunar and planetary explorations for nearly half a century and to use my experimental and theoretical results to advance space technology and to promote also different tradeoffs. I am pleased that I have been able to contribute to different endeavours of both national and international importance and in particular to COSPAR activities throughout the years. Again, thank you for this distinction and great honour.
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Dr. Churazov has made fundamental contributions to X-ray and Gamma-ray astronomy in both theory and observation. He conceived pioneering investigations of our Galactic Center in hard X-rays (using KVANT and GRANAT), electron-positron annihilation emission from our Galaxy (using INTEGRAL), the variability of black holes in X-rays (with RXTE), and hot gas physics in galaxy clusters (using Chandra and XMMNewton). Dr. Churazov played a leading role in resolving the quarter-century conundrum to explain why hot gas in clusters was not cooling and forming stars at the predicted rates. He developed key theoretical insights and applied these to ROSAT, XMM-Newton, and Chandra observations to show that buoyant plasma bubbles, produced by outbursts from supermassive black holes, could be used to measure the mechanical energy output from supermassive black holes. He also showed that the bulk of the AGN power was captured within cluster cooling cores, was sufficient to reheat the cooling gas and, hence, explain the relatively small amounts of star formation and cool gas that are observed in hot gas-rich systems from early type galaxies to rich clusters.
The Indian Space Research Organization / COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal This honour, a gold medal and an engraved citation plaque, was awarded to Gurbax Singh Lakhina (India). The medal recognizes outstanding contributions to space research in developing countries. Achuthan Jayaraman, ISRO representative and COSPAR Bureau member, read the citation which follows.
The leadership Dr. Churazov has shown in advancing these projects makes him a welldeserving recipient of the 2014 COSPAR Massey Award. Eugene Churazov’s Response It is a great pleasure and honour for me to receive the Sir Harrie Massey award from COSPAR. I feel flattered when looking at the impressive list of previous recipients—these are the scientists who made outstanding contributions to space research. Astrophysical objects, accessible with space observatories, provide us great opportunities for studying and testing the laws of physics under all possible conditions. This makes astrophysics and space research a truly enjoyable field with neverending potential for new discoveries.
Professor Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Professor Gurbax Lakhina is an eminent space plasma and space weather physicist. He has carried out cutting-edge research on chorus wave interaction with radiation belt electrons, linear and nonlinear waves in space and astrophysical plasmas, magnetic storms and space weather, and on mirror modes and magnetic decreases. His fundamental contribution to chorus properties—that chorus has circularly magnetic polarization at all angles of propagation relative to the ambient magnetic field, and that the waves change from a highly coherent nature at its source location into quasi-coherent waves with propagation— has been recognised internationally.
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Professor Lakhina has made seminal contribution to the generation mechanism for electrostatic solitary waves observed in the magnetosphere by several space crafts, and in identifying the interplanetary causes of intense and super-intense magnetic storms, like the classic 1859 Carrington event, the largest storm on record.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his contributions to space science summarized in the following citation. Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS pioneered the concept and engineering of rapid-response, low-cost and highly-capable micro satellites utilizing commercial “off-the-shelf” (COTS) devices. This concept and his endeavour in making the COTS devices gradually changed the world of space industry and the related economy and politics to the point that not only big space countries can launch a space mission, but also small developing countries and even university students can make and operate a satellite.
Professor Gurbax Lakhina has published over 230 well-cited papers. COSPAR and the Indian Space Research Organisation are truly honoured to award the COSPAR—Vikram Sarabhai Medal 2014 to Professor Gurbax Lakhina of India for his outstanding research contributions in space plasma and space weather.
Currently, there are hundreds of small, micro and nano satellites flying in space, making contributions to communication, Earth observation and space research, which has already become an important part of the overall space facility.
Gurbax Lakhina’s Response I am delighted to accept the 2014 COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal. I am grateful to COSPAR and ISRO for considering me worthy of this honour. I wish to thank my teachers, my collaborators from India and abroad, my group scientists at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, and students who have contributed to my research career, and from whom I have learnt a lot through exchange of ideas. I thank my parents for encouraging me to get higher education and motivating me for research. Last but not the least, I wish to thank my wife Raj Lakhina for her unstinted support through thick and thin and taking care of the family, daughter Vanisha and son Abhishek for their moral support.
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS (left) receiving his award from Hejun Yin, Vice-President, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences / COSPAR Jeoujang Jaw Award
For his significant contribution to the concept and engineering of low cost micro-satellites, the 2014 Jeoujang Jaw Award is given to Professor, Sir Martin Sweeting.
The Jeoujang Jaw Award, which consists of a citation and an engraved plate, recognizes scientists who have made distinguished pioneering contributions to promoting space research, establishing new space science research branches and founding new exploration programmes. The award was presented to Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS (UK) by Hejun Yin, Vice-President of the
Response read by Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS I am extremely honoured to receive the CAS / COSPAR Jeoujang Jaw Award for 2014; it is always a particular honour to be recognised by one’s own scientific community and colleagues for the work done over more than three decades pioneering advanced small 11
satellites and their applications. When we started in this field in the late 1970s, small satellites were considered of only very limited interest and little utility.
C. Vineeth (India) for significant contributions to the study of couplings in the middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere system based on new optical remote sensing.
Today, by taking advantage of the tremendous advances in microelectronics and associated technologies, small satellites provide capabilities that increasingly rival their conventional counterparts, but more rapidly and at far lower cost. This has not only created new scientific and business opportunities, but also enabled many more nations, universities and companies to gain affordable access to the space environment.
Scientific Commission D Anton Artemyev (Russia) to honour his contribution to the understanding of particle diffusion and acceleration on oblique whistler waves in the radiation belts. Scientific Commission E Nanda Rea (Spain/Netherlands) for pioneering study of magnetar outbursts and significant contribution to the discovery of low magnetic field magnetars.
Of course, the success of Surrey that is being recognised today reflects not just me but the dedication of my colleagues at the Surrey Space Centre, SSTL & DMCii and collectively we thank the CAS / COSPAR committee for this prestigious award.
Scientific Commission F Luca Mariotti (Italy) for his significant contribution to the understanding of radiationinduced carcinogenesis and the balance between proliferation and apoptosis in irradiated cells.
The Russian Academy of Sciences/ COSPAR Zeldovich Medals
Scientific Commission G José Miguel Ezquerro Navarro (Spain) for expertise, professionalism and commitment during support operation of fluid dynamics experiments aboard the International Space Station.
The Zeldovich honours, silver medals and citations, are presented to young scientists who have demonstrated particular excellence and achievement. The citations were read by Lev Zelenyi, the representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences and COSPAR Bureau member, and the medals and citations were presented by Giovanni Bignami, COSPAR President.
Scientific Commission H Benny Rievers (Germany) for the invention of new methods in thermal modelling and the subsequent resolution of the Pioneer Anomaly.
Scientific Commission A Jérôme Bouffard (France) for pioneering studies in coastal oceanography and significant contribution to the enhancement of coastal altimetry. Scientific Commission B Diego Turrini (Italy) for significant contributions to the study of planetary formation through the novel use of data from space missions and the original formulation of the Jovian Early Bombardment scenario. Scientific Commission C
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Ewa Slominska (Poland) for “Mapping seasonal trends of electron temperature in the topside ionosphere based on DEMETER data,” ASR 52/1.
COSPAR Outstanding Paper Awards for Young Scientists The following awards, reserved for first authors under 31 years of age who publish in Advances in Space Research (ASR), were presented in the relevant open Scientific Commission and Panel business meetings.
Scientific Commission D R.D. Strauss (South Africa) for “Modelling and observing Jovian electron propagation times in the inner heliosphere,” ASR 51/3. Scientific Commission E Joey Neilsen (USA) for “The case for massive, evolving winds in black hole X-ray binaries,” ASR 52/4.
Scientific Commission A Tamara Bandikova (Germany) for “Characteristics and accuracies of the GRACE inter-satellite pointing,” ASR 50/1.
Michele Perna (Italy) for “Reverberation time lags in the high luminosity quasar PG 1247+267,” ASR 54/7.
Benjamin S. Schwarz (UK) for “Coastal salinity measurement using a Doppler Radiometer,” ASR 50/8.
Nicolas Picot-Clémente (USA) for “Time variations of cosmic-ray helium isotopes with BESS-Polar I,” ASR 53/10.
Scientific Commission B Joseph Paul Cohen (USA) for “Crater detection via genetic search methods to reduce image features,” ASR 53/12.
Scientific Commission F Joanna Deperas-Standylo (Poland) for “Production and distribution of aberrations in resting or cycling human lymphocytes following Fe-ion or Cr-ion irradiation: Emphasis on single track effects,” ASR 50/5.
Jessica Flahaut (France) for “Identification and characterization of science-rich landing sites for lunar lander missions using integrated remote sensing observations,” ASR 50/12.
L.F. Hu (China) for “Inhibitory effect of simulated microgravity on differentiating preosteoblasts,” ASR 51/1.
Scientific Commission C Alex T. Chartier (UK) for “A 12 year comparison of MIDAS and IRI 2007 ionospheric Total Electron Content,” ASR 49/9.
Technical Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD) Andrea Bolle (Italy) for “A hybrid, selfadjusting search algorithm for optimal space trajectory design,” ASR 50/4.
Hongru Chen (Japan) for “Storm-time atmospheric density modelling using neural networks and its application in orbit propagation,” ASR 53/3.
Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Solano (Germany) for “Adjustable box-wing model for solar radiation pressure impacting GPS satellites,” ASR 49/7 and “Improving the orbits of GPS block IIA satellites during eclipse seasons,” ASR 52/8.
Liming He (China) for “A nonlinear background removal method for seismoionospheric anomaly analysis under a complex solar activity scenario: A case study of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake,” ASR 50/2.
Aaron J. Rosengren (USA) for “Long-term dynamics of high area-to-mass ratio objects in high-Earth orbit,” ASR 52/8.
Caitano Luiz da Silva (Brazil) for “Consequences of the application of the streamer fluid model to the study of the sprite inception mechanism,” ASR 51/10.
R. Sun (Netherlands) for “Precise line-of-sight vector estimation based on an inter-satellite radio frequency system,” ASR 51/7. 13
Panel on Technical Problems Related to Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
Giancarlo Genta, Politecnico di Torino Sini Merikallio, Institute
Zewei Zheng (China) for “Trajectory tracking control for underactuated stratospheric airship,” ASR 50/7 and “Global path following control for underactuated stratospheric airship,” ASR 52/7.
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Roberto Ragazzoni, INAF, Astronomico di Padova
Meteorological Osservatorio
COSPAR Interdisciplinary Lectures
Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
Siberian Meteorite Chelyabinsk Mikhail Y. Marov, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry & Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Charles Hubaux (Belgium) for “Influence of Earth’s shadowing effects on space debris stability,” ASR 51/1.
The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space Edward C. Stone, Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
IV. Scientific Events and Lectures A total of 321 half-day sessions was needed to accommodate the 117 events making up the core of the scientific program. The numbers, titles, organizers, and descriptions of the 2014 Assembly events were listed in the Call for Papers issue of this bulletin (August 2013). Special lectures are as listed below:
Space Observatories RadioAstron and Millimetron: Results and Prospects Nikolai Kardashev, Astro Space Center, Moscow, Russia A Roadmap towards Advanced Space Weather Science to Protect Society's Technological Infrastructure Karel Schrijver, Lockheed Martin, USA
COSPAR Public Lectures "The Role of Basic Science and Space Research in the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University" Academician V.A. Sadovnichii, Rector of Moscow State University
Physics Fluids Experiments on Board ISS Valentina Shevtsova, Microgravity Research Centre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Monitoring the Carbon Cycle from Space François-Marie Bréon, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gifsur-Yvette, France
“Extreme State of Matter on the Earth and in Space” Academician Vladimir E. Fortov, President of Russian Academy of Sciences
The Planck Mission Results Jean-Loup Puget, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Scientific Round Table
Curiosity Sushil K. Atreya, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Exoplanet Exploration and the Future of Space Propulsion Organizer: Giuseppina Micela, INAF— Osservatorio Astronomico G. S. Vaiana, Palmero Giovanni Bignami, COSPAR President
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International Association of Planetary Sciences (IAPS)
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
IUGG/International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IUGG/IAGA)
CASDEN Banque Populaire
CTO “Events” Agency Ltd.
European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA)
European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA)
IUGG/International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IUGG/IAMAS)
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
La Jolla Sciences
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris
Royal Observatory of Belgium
South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
Lockheed Martin - primary contributor in 2014 to the COSPAR grants program
LSR Group
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
Pan American Association of Computational Interdisciplinary Sciences (PACIS)
RadioNet3 - RadioNet3 is made possible by the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Contract No .283393
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
SPARC – Stratosphere-troposphere Process and their Role in Climate
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
COSPAR Space Science Award
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The COSPAR Space Science Award recognizes outstanding contributions to space science in the fields covered by the Committee on Space Research.
III. COSPAR Awards The following awards, with the exception of the Outstanding Paper Awards for Young Scientists, were presented during a ceremony which closed the formal activities of the inaugural day of the Moscow Assembly. The names of recipients of the Outstanding Paper Awards were read during the ceremony, but the awardees present at the Assembly were given their certificates and introduced at the same time to their peers in the scientific community at the relevant open Scientific Commission and Panel business meetings.
In 2014 two COSPAR Awards were given: to David J. McComas (USA) and to Jean-Loup Puget (France). Giovanni Bignami (COSPAR President) read the citations.
Sponsorship of the scientific programme:
American Astronomical Society / Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS/DPS)
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Dr. David J. McComas is the Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas and Adjoint Professor in
participated on and chaired important panels and committees for the American Geophysical Union, the US National Academy, and NASA; he currently serves as the Chairman of the NASA Advisory Council’s Science Committee. David J. McComas is a most deserving recipient of this award. David J. McComas’ Response I am incredibly honoured and humbled to be receiving COSPAR’s Space Science Award. It is really a tribute not to me, but to all of the great scientists, engineers, and others that I have been privileged to work with at Southwest Research Institute, before that at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and to all of my many other outstanding colleagues and collaborators from around the world. COSPAR plays a key and central role in the pursuit of space science across the globe and I am particularly honoured to be receiving this award from such an illustrious international organization. Thank you all very much!
David J. McComas
the joint University of Texas, San Antonio— SwRI graduate programme in physics, which he helped to establish in 2004. Dr. McComas received his B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1980 and Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA in 1986. Prior to SwRI, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and served as Group Leader for Space and Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Program Manager, and founding Director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration. Dr. McComas is the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutralatom Spectrometers (TWINS) missions as well as for the Ulysses-SWOOPS, ACE-SWEPAM, Juno-JADE, New Horizons-SWAP, and Solar Probe Plus-ISIS instruments. Dr. McComas and his team have provided much of the data used by the space science community to study the 3-D solar wind and its interactions with Earth’s magnetosphere, its interactions with other planetary magnetospheres and solar system bodies, and its interactions with the local interstellar medium. Dr. McComas has contributed profoundly to exploring our heliospheric home and to understanding the complex physical processes that control its evolution. He has been a regular contributor to the scientific exchanges of COSPAR Commissions for over thirty years and has
Dr. Jean-Loup Puget
Dr. Jean-Loup Puget has been the Principal Investigator since 1995 of the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) of the Planck Mission. He served as Deputy Director of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris from 1978 to 1982. After a position in the Space Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Physics Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure and then in 1989 6
the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (Orsay), serving as Deputy Director from 1990 until 1998 when he became Director (1998-2006). In 1971, in the framework of his Ph.D thesis work at the Goddard Space Flight Center, he worked on the prediction of gamma rays issued from the annihilation at the boundaries matterantimatter with the first gamma ray satellite (SAS2). He got his Ph.D in 1973 (Paris University). This work was expanded with the first interpretation of the galactic gamma rays emission. He led the work which ended up with the first detection of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) in the COBE-FIRAS data. His work on dust emission led to the discovery of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules (PAHs). He acted as Mission Scientist on the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) of ESA. For about twenty years he has been the leader of HFI on Planck, with subKelvin cooling of the detectors for the first time in space. Among the major cosmological results particularly noteworthy are: the highprecision determination of cosmological parameters, spatial flatness, no evidence for additional neutrino-like relativistic particles and an upper limit of 0.23 eV for the summed neutrino mass. He and his collaborators are also performing a careful analysis of the polarisation data, taking great care of all observational and instrumental biases. Dr. J.L. Puget has authored more than 200 refereed scientific publications and has been a regular contributor at COSPAR Assemblies. He has been member and chairman of many national and international scientific committees for ESA, ESO, the French Academy, and he is now chairman of the Science Programme Committee of the French space agency (CNES).
space projects which were very large international collaborations: the ISO as a mission scientist, and Herschel-Planck as PI of the High Frequency Instrument. Large international collaborations distributing data sets to the world scientific community are very much in the spirit of COSPAR aims, and I receive this award in the names of all those who contributed to these projects.
COSPAR International Cooperation Medal This medal, awarded for significant contributions to the promotion of cooperative, international scientific endeavour, was presented to Carlé McGetchin Pieters (USA). The text of the citation, read by Ji Wu, COSPAR Vice-President, is given below.
Professor Carlé McGetchin Pieters receiving her award from Vice-President Professor Ji Wu
Professor Carlé Pieters has spent her career enabling international cooperation in science, beginning as a science teacher in Sarawak Malaysia with the Peace Corp. before she entered college and culminating most recently in providing the M3 Spectrometer for India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission that allowed it to establish the presence and distribution of water on the Moon.
Given these accomplishments and more, Dr. Jean-Loup Puget is a most worthy recipient of the COSPAR Space Science Award. Jean-Loup Puget’s Response It is a great honour to be presented with the 2014 COSPAR Award, and I thank the COSPAR Bureau for awarding it to me. I have worked in space science for 40 years now since 1970 on SAS2 gamma ray survey data. During this period I have contributed to leading major
After receiving her Bachelor, Masters and Ph. D degrees from MIT she joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center until 1980 when she went to Brown University where she is currently a professor of geological sciences.
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productive and important to the world, but is also most enjoyable and rewarding. Thank you!
There she managed the Reflectance Experiment Laboratory that is used worldwide for the interpretation of spacecraft and telescopic data from planetary bodies. She also served as a member of the Japanese Kaguya Science Team, leading an international cross-calibration effort of the optical teams from several lunar missions. On NASA’s Dawn mission she is working closely with the Italian Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team and the German Framing Camera team to understand the surfaces of Vesta and soon Ceres. Other international activities include chairing the United Kingdom – NASA MoonLITE Science Evaluation Board and serving as president of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group.
COSPAR William Nordberg Medal The Nordberg Medal was presented to Mikhail Ya. Marov (Russia) by Lev Zelenyi, COSPAR Bureau member, to recognize his distinguished contributions to the application of space science as summarized in the following citation.
Throughout her career she has been a major player in the study of the Moon and the asteroid belt not only from the surface of the Earth but in space as well, from the lunar Clementine mission to the Dawn mission in operation in the asteroid belt today. In parallel with her research efforts, she has strongly supported the dissemination of science through COSPAR’s Advances in Space Research and the COSPAR Scientific Assemblies as an active member of Commission B. In summary, Professor Pieters has been a most productive international scientific citizen from her early days as a science teacher in Malaysia to the recent outstanding successes of her spectrometer for Chandrayaan. Carlé Pieters is indeed a most deserving recipient for the 2014 COSPAR International Cooperation Medal.
Academician Mikhail Ya. Marov
Academician Mikhail Marov has made many distinguished contributions to the application of space science. His achievements and fundamental contributions to space science, planetary research and the study of natural mechanisms on the terrestrial planets with implications for Earth using a comparative planetology approach are truly outstanding.
Carlé Pieters’ Response This award is an enormous honour and I am greatly humbled by it. International cooperation spans the four “C’s”—beginning with Communication among colleagues, and expanding through Coordination of activities, developing Collaboration on projects, and then full Cooperation of partners. I sincerely thank our Russian hosts and colleagues with whom I have been pleased to work, as well as many other dear colleagues in Ukraine, India, Japan, Europe, China, Korea, Canada and the US. Space ccience and exploration is an expanding multilateral activity that is not only highly
In particular, Professor Marov served as Project Scientist and Principal Investigator on the VENERA and MARS lander series in the Soviet Union and also made great contributions to the LUNA, VEGA and PHOBOS GRUNT space projects. He also was responsible for implementation of the first in situ measurements in the Venus and Mars atmospheres as well as development of models used for the design of the Venera landers 8
which had to survive in the hot and dense atmosphere on Venus’ surface. He has also been involved in fundamental studies and pioneering research in the Earth’s aeronomy with application for evaluation of artificial satellite and orbital station lifetime and ozone layer decay depending on the abundance of minor constituents in the middle atmosphere. His investigation of radiative and convective transfer applied to the Venera lander design enabled transmission of the first surface images and measurements of soil composition. Furthermore, his development of the theory of turbulent multicomponent reactive gases and rarefied gas kinetics is significant for advanced modelling procedures and important scientific and technical applications such as protoplanetary gas-dust disc evolution and primordial planetary bodies formation, light scattering by aerosols of natural and antropogenic origin, estimate of Martian ancient ocean loss, gas-oil industry, etc. And to cite one last accomplishment, his study of migration processes and estimates of the delivery of water and volatiles to Earth and terrestrial planets has implications for understanding the early history of the solar system evolution.
COSPAR Massey Award The citation for this award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of space research in which a leadership role is of particular importance, and which consists of a gold medal, was read by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, COSPAR Bureau member. The recipient was Eugene Churazov (Germany / Russia).
Dr. Eugene Churazov
Dr. Eugene Churazov received his M.S. (summa cum laude) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1985) and his Ph.D. (1989) and Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1996) from the Space Research Institute (Moscow). Dr. Churazov was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and currently holds joint appointments at the Institute for Space Research (Moscow, Russia) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Garching, Germany). Dr. Churazov was one of the central figures in the Russian-led international missions MIR-KVANT (19872001) and GRANAT (1989-1998), and made important contributions to the ESA-led INTEGRAL mission (launched by a Russian Proton rocket and operating since 2002) and presently participates in the ESA Athena+ mission. In addition, Dr. Churazov is the Russian deputy PI of the Russian-German Spectrum-X mission.
Mikhail Marov is, indeed, a most deserving recipient for the 2014 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal. Response of Mikhail Marov Let me express my deep gratitude for the great honour of receiving the COSPAR William Nordberg Medal Award. My entire career has been devoted to space science and applications. I had the unique chance to be in the core of the Soviet and Russian space programmes, specifically in lunar and planetary explorations for nearly half a century and to use my experimental and theoretical results to advance space technology and to promote also different tradeoffs. I am pleased that I have been able to contribute to different endeavours of both national and international importance and in particular to COSPAR activities throughout the years. Again, thank you for this distinction and great honour.
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Dr. Churazov has made fundamental contributions to X-ray and Gamma-ray astronomy in both theory and observation. He conceived pioneering investigations of our Galactic Center in hard X-rays (using KVANT and GRANAT), electron-positron annihilation emission from our Galaxy (using INTEGRAL), the variability of black holes in X-rays (with RXTE), and hot gas physics in galaxy clusters (using Chandra and XMMNewton). Dr. Churazov played a leading role in resolving the quarter-century conundrum to explain why hot gas in clusters was not cooling and forming stars at the predicted rates. He developed key theoretical insights and applied these to ROSAT, XMM-Newton, and Chandra observations to show that buoyant plasma bubbles, produced by outbursts from supermassive black holes, could be used to measure the mechanical energy output from supermassive black holes. He also showed that the bulk of the AGN power was captured within cluster cooling cores, was sufficient to reheat the cooling gas and, hence, explain the relatively small amounts of star formation and cool gas that are observed in hot gas-rich systems from early type galaxies to rich clusters.
The Indian Space Research Organization / COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal This honour, a gold medal and an engraved citation plaque, was awarded to Gurbax Singh Lakhina (India). The medal recognizes outstanding contributions to space research in developing countries. Achuthan Jayaraman, ISRO representative and COSPAR Bureau member, read the citation which follows.
The leadership Dr. Churazov has shown in advancing these projects makes him a welldeserving recipient of the 2014 COSPAR Massey Award. Eugene Churazov’s Response It is a great pleasure and honour for me to receive the Sir Harrie Massey award from COSPAR. I feel flattered when looking at the impressive list of previous recipients—these are the scientists who made outstanding contributions to space research. Astrophysical objects, accessible with space observatories, provide us great opportunities for studying and testing the laws of physics under all possible conditions. This makes astrophysics and space research a truly enjoyable field with neverending potential for new discoveries.
Professor Gurbax Singh Lakhina
Professor Gurbax Lakhina is an eminent space plasma and space weather physicist. He has carried out cutting-edge research on chorus wave interaction with radiation belt electrons, linear and nonlinear waves in space and astrophysical plasmas, magnetic storms and space weather, and on mirror modes and magnetic decreases. His fundamental contribution to chorus properties—that chorus has circularly magnetic polarization at all angles of propagation relative to the ambient magnetic field, and that the waves change from a highly coherent nature at its source location into quasi-coherent waves with propagation— has been recognised internationally.
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Professor Lakhina has made seminal contribution to the generation mechanism for electrostatic solitary waves observed in the magnetosphere by several space crafts, and in identifying the interplanetary causes of intense and super-intense magnetic storms, like the classic 1859 Carrington event, the largest storm on record.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his contributions to space science summarized in the following citation. Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS pioneered the concept and engineering of rapid-response, low-cost and highly-capable micro satellites utilizing commercial “off-the-shelf” (COTS) devices. This concept and his endeavour in making the COTS devices gradually changed the world of space industry and the related economy and politics to the point that not only big space countries can launch a space mission, but also small developing countries and even university students can make and operate a satellite.
Professor Gurbax Lakhina has published over 230 well-cited papers. COSPAR and the Indian Space Research Organisation are truly honoured to award the COSPAR—Vikram Sarabhai Medal 2014 to Professor Gurbax Lakhina of India for his outstanding research contributions in space plasma and space weather.
Currently, there are hundreds of small, micro and nano satellites flying in space, making contributions to communication, Earth observation and space research, which has already become an important part of the overall space facility.
Gurbax Lakhina’s Response I am delighted to accept the 2014 COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal. I am grateful to COSPAR and ISRO for considering me worthy of this honour. I wish to thank my teachers, my collaborators from India and abroad, my group scientists at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, and students who have contributed to my research career, and from whom I have learnt a lot through exchange of ideas. I thank my parents for encouraging me to get higher education and motivating me for research. Last but not the least, I wish to thank my wife Raj Lakhina for her unstinted support through thick and thin and taking care of the family, daughter Vanisha and son Abhishek for their moral support.
Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS (left) receiving his award from Hejun Yin, Vice-President, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences / COSPAR Jeoujang Jaw Award
For his significant contribution to the concept and engineering of low cost micro-satellites, the 2014 Jeoujang Jaw Award is given to Professor, Sir Martin Sweeting.
The Jeoujang Jaw Award, which consists of a citation and an engraved plate, recognizes scientists who have made distinguished pioneering contributions to promoting space research, establishing new space science research branches and founding new exploration programmes. The award was presented to Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS (UK) by Hejun Yin, Vice-President of the
Response read by Professor Sir Martin Sweeting FRS I am extremely honoured to receive the CAS / COSPAR Jeoujang Jaw Award for 2014; it is always a particular honour to be recognised by one’s own scientific community and colleagues for the work done over more than three decades pioneering advanced small 11
satellites and their applications. When we started in this field in the late 1970s, small satellites were considered of only very limited interest and little utility.
C. Vineeth (India) for significant contributions to the study of couplings in the middle atmosphere/thermosphere/ionosphere system based on new optical remote sensing.
Today, by taking advantage of the tremendous advances in microelectronics and associated technologies, small satellites provide capabilities that increasingly rival their conventional counterparts, but more rapidly and at far lower cost. This has not only created new scientific and business opportunities, but also enabled many more nations, universities and companies to gain affordable access to the space environment.
Scientific Commission D Anton Artemyev (Russia) to honour his contribution to the understanding of particle diffusion and acceleration on oblique whistler waves in the radiation belts. Scientific Commission E Nanda Rea (Spain/Netherlands) for pioneering study of magnetar outbursts and significant contribution to the discovery of low magnetic field magnetars.
Of course, the success of Surrey that is being recognised today reflects not just me but the dedication of my colleagues at the Surrey Space Centre, SSTL & DMCii and collectively we thank the CAS / COSPAR committee for this prestigious award.
Scientific Commission F Luca Mariotti (Italy) for his significant contribution to the understanding of radiationinduced carcinogenesis and the balance between proliferation and apoptosis in irradiated cells.
The Russian Academy of Sciences/ COSPAR Zeldovich Medals
Scientific Commission G José Miguel Ezquerro Navarro (Spain) for expertise, professionalism and commitment during support operation of fluid dynamics experiments aboard the International Space Station.
The Zeldovich honours, silver medals and citations, are presented to young scientists who have demonstrated particular excellence and achievement. The citations were read by Lev Zelenyi, the representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences and COSPAR Bureau member, and the medals and citations were presented by Giovanni Bignami, COSPAR President.
Scientific Commission H Benny Rievers (Germany) for the invention of new methods in thermal modelling and the subsequent resolution of the Pioneer Anomaly.
Scientific Commission A Jérôme Bouffard (France) for pioneering studies in coastal oceanography and significant contribution to the enhancement of coastal altimetry. Scientific Commission B Diego Turrini (Italy) for significant contributions to the study of planetary formation through the novel use of data from space missions and the original formulation of the Jovian Early Bombardment scenario. Scientific Commission C
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Ewa Slominska (Poland) for “Mapping seasonal trends of electron temperature in the topside ionosphere based on DEMETER data,” ASR 52/1.
COSPAR Outstanding Paper Awards for Young Scientists The following awards, reserved for first authors under 31 years of age who publish in Advances in Space Research (ASR), were presented in the relevant open Scientific Commission and Panel business meetings.
Scientific Commission D R.D. Strauss (South Africa) for “Modelling and observing Jovian electron propagation times in the inner heliosphere,” ASR 51/3. Scientific Commission E Joey Neilsen (USA) for “The case for massive, evolving winds in black hole X-ray binaries,” ASR 52/4.
Scientific Commission A Tamara Bandikova (Germany) for “Characteristics and accuracies of the GRACE inter-satellite pointing,” ASR 50/1.
Michele Perna (Italy) for “Reverberation time lags in the high luminosity quasar PG 1247+267,” ASR 54/7.
Benjamin S. Schwarz (UK) for “Coastal salinity measurement using a Doppler Radiometer,” ASR 50/8.
Nicolas Picot-Clémente (USA) for “Time variations of cosmic-ray helium isotopes with BESS-Polar I,” ASR 53/10.
Scientific Commission B Joseph Paul Cohen (USA) for “Crater detection via genetic search methods to reduce image features,” ASR 53/12.
Scientific Commission F Joanna Deperas-Standylo (Poland) for “Production and distribution of aberrations in resting or cycling human lymphocytes following Fe-ion or Cr-ion irradiation: Emphasis on single track effects,” ASR 50/5.
Jessica Flahaut (France) for “Identification and characterization of science-rich landing sites for lunar lander missions using integrated remote sensing observations,” ASR 50/12.
L.F. Hu (China) for “Inhibitory effect of simulated microgravity on differentiating preosteoblasts,” ASR 51/1.
Scientific Commission C Alex T. Chartier (UK) for “A 12 year comparison of MIDAS and IRI 2007 ionospheric Total Electron Content,” ASR 49/9.
Technical Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD) Andrea Bolle (Italy) for “A hybrid, selfadjusting search algorithm for optimal space trajectory design,” ASR 50/4.
Hongru Chen (Japan) for “Storm-time atmospheric density modelling using neural networks and its application in orbit propagation,” ASR 53/3.
Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Solano (Germany) for “Adjustable box-wing model for solar radiation pressure impacting GPS satellites,” ASR 49/7 and “Improving the orbits of GPS block IIA satellites during eclipse seasons,” ASR 52/8.
Liming He (China) for “A nonlinear background removal method for seismoionospheric anomaly analysis under a complex solar activity scenario: A case study of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake,” ASR 50/2.
Aaron J. Rosengren (USA) for “Long-term dynamics of high area-to-mass ratio objects in high-Earth orbit,” ASR 52/8.
Caitano Luiz da Silva (Brazil) for “Consequences of the application of the streamer fluid model to the study of the sprite inception mechanism,” ASR 51/10.
R. Sun (Netherlands) for “Precise line-of-sight vector estimation based on an inter-satellite radio frequency system,” ASR 51/7. 13
Panel on Technical Problems Related to Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
Giancarlo Genta, Politecnico di Torino Sini Merikallio, Institute
Zewei Zheng (China) for “Trajectory tracking control for underactuated stratospheric airship,” ASR 50/7 and “Global path following control for underactuated stratospheric airship,” ASR 52/7.
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Roberto Ragazzoni, INAF, Astronomico di Padova
Meteorological Osservatorio
COSPAR Interdisciplinary Lectures
Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
Siberian Meteorite Chelyabinsk Mikhail Y. Marov, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry & Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Charles Hubaux (Belgium) for “Influence of Earth’s shadowing effects on space debris stability,” ASR 51/1.
The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space Edward C. Stone, Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
IV. Scientific Events and Lectures A total of 321 half-day sessions was needed to accommodate the 117 events making up the core of the scientific program. The numbers, titles, organizers, and descriptions of the 2014 Assembly events were listed in the Call for Papers issue of this bulletin (August 2013). Special lectures are as listed below:
Space Observatories RadioAstron and Millimetron: Results and Prospects Nikolai Kardashev, Astro Space Center, Moscow, Russia A Roadmap towards Advanced Space Weather Science to Protect Society's Technological Infrastructure Karel Schrijver, Lockheed Martin, USA
COSPAR Public Lectures "The Role of Basic Science and Space Research in the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University" Academician V.A. Sadovnichii, Rector of Moscow State University
Physics Fluids Experiments on Board ISS Valentina Shevtsova, Microgravity Research Centre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Monitoring the Carbon Cycle from Space François-Marie Bréon, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gifsur-Yvette, France
“Extreme State of Matter on the Earth and in Space” Academician Vladimir E. Fortov, President of Russian Academy of Sciences
The Planck Mission Results Jean-Loup Puget, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Scientific Round Table
Curiosity Sushil K. Atreya, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Exoplanet Exploration and the Future of Space Propulsion Organizer: Giuseppina Micela, INAF— Osservatorio Astronomico G. S. Vaiana, Palmero Giovanni Bignami, COSPAR President
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