Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for a wonderful 2012.
The Board of Trustees of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) thanks you for your support throughout the busy year 2011 highlighted by our 23 Academy conferences and regional meetings in Rome, Paris, Berlin, Arcachon, Dnepropetrovsk, Colorado Springs, Houston, Moscow (2), Madrid, Laurel, Saint Petersburg, Aosta, Graz, Beijing (2), Shanghai, Hanoi, Cape Town, Nairobi (2), Malindi and Kytakyushu.

The publication in 2011 of two important studies are major contribution to both Humanity and space community: the  study on "The First International Assessment Of Space Solar Power : Opportunities, Issues And Potential Pathways Forward" is a new alternative step to nuclear electric power. The study on "Protecting the Environment of Celestial Bodies : The Need for Policy and Guidelines" is a major contribution to clean future space exploration.

30 January 2012 - 1st February 2012, European CubeSat Symposium, Brussels , Belgium

Online registration for the Astrodynamics Conference in Porto , Portugal is now available

Heads of Space Agencies Summit - Follow-On

An IAA plenary event at the International Astronautical Congress has been prepared the past few months. It was held on October 6th 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. Participants were Madhavan Nair, President IAA and former Chairman of ISRO, Enrico Saggese, President of Italian space agency, Marius-Ioan Piso, President of Romanian space agency, Ray Johnson, Senior VP & CTO, Lockheed Martin LMCO, and moderator was Jean-Michel Contant, Secretary General IAA. The event available on You-Tube was largely reported in the news [see Cape Argus Newspaper]. Based on a recommendation of IAA Academician Daniel Goldin, former NASA Administrator, a questionnaire on the prioritization of the Summit declaration as been prepared and sent to 1200 Academicians. The questionnaire included open questions seeking for indentifying volunteers and new ideas. Intermediate synthesis of the results has been completed as well as capturing relevant suggestions and remarks. Taking into account the time needed for collecting the responses a final synthesis is planned by the end of the year. Intermediate results have been presented during the IAA Plenary Event at the International Astronautical Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. Links to SUMMIT (UPDATED May 2011) and GALA Webpages)

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) hosted landmark Heads of Space Agencies Summit in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of its 50th anniversary on 17th November 2010. The Summit gathered 30 heads of space agencies along with 500+ Academicians, world leaders and experts. All heads of agencies have welcomed the IAA Summit Declaration and highlighted the need to foster closer international cooperation across four topic areas to strengthen the effectiveness and support of global space activities.

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