(Second Announcement) International Conference on Space Sustainability 2024

Second Announcement

International Conference on Space Sustainability

Hong Kong SAR December 2nd – 4th 2024

Early Registrations are encouraged to secure your place!

Attendance limited to 120

Our international conference in the highly regarded series on “Space Sustainability” will take place in Hong Kong SAR, China from Monday December 2nd to Wednesday December 4th, 2024. The meeting is co-organised by HKU-LSR (www.lsr.hku.hk) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China and EPFL Switzerland (www.epfl.ch/en/).The conference venue is secured on the modern centential campus precinct of the University of Hong Kong: https://its.hku.hk/teaching-space/cpd-3-04/

Visit the conference website: https://ssconf.space/ which is regularly updated.

Major themes of this meeting are:

1) The scale of the threat, risks and costs – modelling, monitoring, measuring

2) Mitigation – what processes/technologies are available/under development?

3) Data collection and data sharing – vital aspects of addressing the issue

4) International Regulation of LEO and Compliance – progress, pitfalls, policy

5) Public Awareness and the threat of unregulated LEO access to astronomy

Format: The conference will be an in-person event with selected zoom access only. There will be a mixture of invited talks, contributed talks, posters and panel discussions. There will also be a conference legacy so all our great talks and reviews can be assembled, in a special issue, for handy reference.

Social Events: There will be a welcome reception on the Sunday evening, a conference dinner on the Tuesday evening and organized social events for Monday (junk Boat trip on the harbour and special iconic “party” tram ride).

We look forward to welcoming you to HK and to an exciting and vibrant meeting.

Quentin Parker (HKU) and Jean-Paul Knieb (EPFL) SOC co-chairs

Contact: ssclsr@hku.hk