Call for abstracts for Earth & Space 2016

Call for Abstracts:

Earth & Space 2016 conference

Orlando, Florida

April 11-15, 2016

Abstracts are due July 15, 2015.

http://earthspaceconf.mst.edu/

This is perhaps the premier conference on space resource utilization, space mining, granular mechanics in space, etc.  Springtime in Orlando figuring out how to extend human civilization into the solar system - what could be better?

Symposium 1: Granular Materials in Space Exploration

Symposium 2: Exploration and Utilization of Extra-Terrestrial Bodies

Symposium 3: Advanced Materials and Designs for Hydraulic, Earth, and Aerospace Structures

Symposium 4: Structures in Challenging Environments: Dynamics, Controls, Smart Structures, Health Monitoring, and Sensors

Philip T. Metzger, Ph.D.

Planetary Physicist

University of Central Florida

Florida Space Institute

12354 Research Parkway

Partnership 1 Building, Suite 214

Orlando, FL 32826-0650

Twitter: @DrPhiltill

Space Resources Blog:
www.philipmetzger.com/blog

Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands

First Results: from Figure 2, "Preliminary results on the structure of lunar highland crust from GRAIL and LOLA altimetry," Zuber & Smith, et al, (#9015, Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust, 2012) Preliminary GRAIL gravity field for the 86-km-diameter Tycho crater. Tycho is the prominent structure at upper left. In this GRAIL map reds correspond to mass excesses and blues to mass deficits. GRAIL gravity has a spatial resolution of 18 kilometers [NASA/JPL/MIT].

Clive Neal
Notre Dame

The first conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust was held in 1979. Since that seminal meeting, our knowledge of the lunar highlands has advanced enormously. Unimagined new data have become available, notably in orbital remote sensing of mineralogy, chemistry, topography, and gravity; geochronology; and geochemistry, especially isotopic constraints and the abundances and natures of lunar volatiles. These new data are paralleled by new concepts of solar system science, including the importance and timing of impact events (including the one that formed the Moon) and the nature of the early solar system disk and its dynamical instabilities. 

In light of these advances in the last 34 years, the time seems right for a synoptic reexamination of the lunar highlands crust. The Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust is intended to bring members of the planetary science community together to share their specialized insights into the lunar highlands crust, exchange ideas freely, and perhaps develop new cross-disciplinary ideas and tests of those ideas.

A field trip to the Stillwater Mine will be held on Thursday, July 12, and a field trip to Picket Pin Mountain will be held on Monday, July 16 (departing Bozemanon Sunday, July 15, following the conclusion of the final oral session). More details about the field trips, along with information about registration, accommodations, transportation, and much more, are available in the final announcement.

For more information, visit the conference website, HERE.

"Preliminary results on the structure of lunar highland crust from GRAIL and LOLA altimetry," Zuber & Smith, et al, (#9015, Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust, 2012)

Related: Lunar Picture of the Day (LPOD), "First Results," June 13, 2012, Charles Wood

Developing Space: ASTech International Conference

Following on the success of the Space Access international conference organized by ASTech in Paris in 2010, the ASTech International Conference - Developing Space - will address the expansion of scientific and economic activities into cislunar space, which is a topic of major importance for the future of space activities in the world, and more generally for the future of humanity.

To be held in the center of Paris, December 17-19, 2012, the conference will provide a unique opportunity for the European space community to present its projects and visions in a global international forum, with strong participation from established space powers (United States, Canada, Japan, Russia) and emerging space powers (China, India).

The first half-century of space activities has profoundly changed Earth’s society and economy for the better, with the development of a wide range of satellite uses: space telecommunications, navigation, positioning and timing, Earth observation for security, meteorology and climate monitoring, remote sensing for environmental surveillance and other economic and public goods activities. It has also transformed our view of the Universe and opened a new frontier for the expansion of human civilization, with the installation of a permanently inhabited facility close to the Earth, and the first human excursions to another celestial body, the Moon.

The second half-century of space activities will build on these foundations and become the era of exploitation of cislunar space and its resources by a combination of robotic and crewed systems, pursuing scientific, public service and economic goals. The objective of ASTech International Conference - Developing Space - is to address the technical and programmatic challenges of the expansion of humanity’s sphere of activities to cislunar space, which includes the various currently used Earth orbits (LEO, MEO, GEO), the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system, lunar orbits and the lunar surface, and the two Lagrange points of the Sun-Earth System which at 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth are the most distant places of the new zone soon open for exploitation by humans.

For information, visit http://www.d-space2012.com

HT: Paul Spudis

Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration Workshop

Notional (2010) node of the International Lunar Network (ILN) NASA/MSFC

ESA Conference Bureau

We are pleased to announce, on behalf of the organisers, that the Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration Workshop will take place on 6 and 7 February 2012 at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Objective: The objective of the workshop is to explore the scientific challenges associated with enabling future exploration of the Moon and the ways in which these challenges can be addressed through:

       - Terrestrial research activities
       - Experiments in Low Earth Orbit and in reduced/micro gravity
       - Investigations on in situ precursor missions

Call for papers
Authors are kindly invited to submit their abstract by using the online abstract submission form, posted on the workshop website http://www.congrex.nl/lunarexplorationws/

More relevant information can be found on the above mentioned website.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at ESA/ESTEC.

NASA Lunar Science Forum IV

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:

Clive R. Neal
University of Notre Dame

The NASA Lunar Science Institute is pleased to announce the 4th annual NASA Lunar Science Forum, to be held July 19-21, 2011.

This year's forum will feature sessions on recent scientific results from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), dedicated side-conferences for graduate students and young lunar professionals, as well as the annual recognition of scientific accomplishments and associated keynote lecture.

As in past years, science sessions are structured to report on both recent results and future opportunities for lunar science, exploration, education and outreach.

We also look forward to news on the upcoming lunar missions GRAIL and LADEE and welcome abstracts across the many fields of lunar science.

Abstracts will be accepted starting February 21 through May 2, 2011 at http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/lsf2011

February's announcement will discuss the Lunar Science Forum logistics, but please save the date now as you make your summer meeting plans.

We look forward to another exciting meeting focusing on science Of, On and From the Moon!

Note: The 4th Annual NLSI Conference will be held once again this year at the NLSI's host facility, NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.

LEAG 2010 abstract deadline extended

The abstract deadline for the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) 2010 has been extended to Wednesday, July 7, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Daylight Time.

Clive Neal
University of Notre Dame

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group will be held September 14–16, 2010, at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street, SW, Washington DC. The hotel is conveniently located near the L’Enfant Plaza Metro (6th and Maryland Street exits) and within a short walking distance to NASA Headquarters.

The focus of the meeting will be using the Moon as a target for solar system exploration, science, commerce, education, and technology development.

The three-day meeting will promote community discussion and provide input to the questions to be addressed. As in previous years the meeting sessions will be populated through a combination of invited and contributed talks, and will be a blend of science, exploration, resources, and commercial activities.

Questions that will be addressed include:

* How can data from lunar missions be used to develop future concepts for lunar and solar system exploration?

* What are the recent breakthroughs in lunar science and how do they influence future lunar and solar system robotic missions?

* How can commercial partnerships be fostered in the robotic exploration of the Moon?

* What are the main technology developments needed to enable a sustainable lunar and solar system exploration program?

* How can the Moon be used as a target for solar system exploration, science, commerce, education, and technology development?

Oral sessions, which will be held in Columbia Ballroom I, will be composed of both invited and contributed talks. Contributed abstracts are highly encouraged and should be centered on the key questions.

Contributed abstracts will also form poster sessions scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, September 15 and 16.

Catch up on the details, HERE.

Global Lunar Conference and an "International Robot Village" on the Moon

The International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG), the Chinese Astronautics Society and others are preparing to host the Global Lunar Conference in Beijing, May 31 - June 3, 1010.

Global Lunar Conference
11th ILEWG Conference on Exploration
and Utilisation of the Moon:

Representatives of the world's space agencies gather at the Global Lunar Congress with a new sense of mission, a result of recent news that there is water on the Moon. A popular concept of the 2004-2005 era, an international robot village on the Moon, is on the agenda, along with other ideas that prevailed before interest in returning Man to the Moon began losing ground to other space objectives. Host China can be expected to present a status report on its Chang’e 3-stage lunar mission.

The international robot village is described as an array of cooperating lunar landers by 2014 that prepares the ground for an "effective, affordable human lunar exploration and permanent presence by 2024."

The Chinese mission will culminate with the launch and landing of a rover on the moon to collect mineral samples in 2012. China became only the third nation, after the United States and Russia, to send a manned spacecraft into orbit. In September, the country’s space scientists announced they have completed the world’s highest-resolution three-dimensional map of the Moon.

The joint organizers of the congress, the Chinese Society of Astronautics and the International Astronautical Federation, argue that lunar missions will lead to new understanding of the origin and the development of the Solar System, opening "new avenues towards a utilisation of lunar resources that could be used in both the exploration of outer space and here on planet Earth."

For further information, the official conference website is here.

International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2009 coming to Orlando

Tampa Space Program Examiner
Jason Rhian

The National Space Society's International Space Development Conference will be held in Orlando Florida at the Omni Hotel at Champion's Gate. This wide-ranging expo on space affairs will be held from May 28th to the 31st. On May 27th, the Space Investment Summit will be held at the hotel and provide attendees a chance to learn more about the links between the existing hospitality community and the emerging space tourism industry.

Read and Comment HERE.