First Announcement: International Conference on Space Sustainability Hong Kong SAR December 2nd – 4th 2024
Registrations are now open!
An 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 conference venue is the wonderful main campus of Hong Kong University under the auspices of the Laboratory for space Research (LSR: www.lsr.hku.hk). The meeting is co-organised by HKU-LSR in HKSAR and EPFL Switzerland.
There will be a welcome reception on the Sunday evening, a conference dinner on the Tuesday evening and organized social events for Monday.
Major themes of this meeting are:
- The scale of the threat, risks and costs – modelling, monitoring, measuring
- Mitigation – what processes/technologies are available/under development?
- Data collection and data sharing – vital aspects of addressing the issue
- International Regulation of LEO and Compliance – progress, pitfalls, policy
- 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.
Attendance: will be capped at 120.
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
For details please visit the conference website: https://ssconf.space/
If you have any inquiries, please send us an email at ssclsr@hku.hk.