Report to Commission IV September 29, 2003 for Study Group Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation (SSMEO) Study Group Cost-Effective Earth Observation Missions (CEEOM)

SG SSMEO Session IAA.11.1 for IAC Bremen „Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation – Cost- Effective Missions –14 abstracts received –9 papers accepted –3 papers transferred to other sessions –2 papers rejected –1 paper withdrawn –8 papers presented

SG SSMEO Stand-alone Symposium 4 th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, Berlin, April 7-11, 2003; –Number of participants163 –Number of Nations25 –Number of posters31 –Number of sessions15 –Number of lectures56 –Number of panels 2

Panels: Launch opportunities for Small Satellites; J.-M. Contant Future NASA Space Technologies for Small Satellite Missions; L. Alkalai Special sessions: Student Conference NASA Earth Science Small Satellite Missions and Technologies Cost-Effective Earth Observation Missions

New event at the IAA Symposium: Student Prize Paper Competition Student Paper Evaluation Committee with distinguished judges selected from academia, industry and government (three continents) 12 papers received from five countries 2 stage selection 1.Content 2.On the Student Conference with 6 finalists –Presentation quality –Quality of the answers Prize money collected from organizations and space industry

SG SSMEO (cont.) Prior to the 4 th Symposium, on Sunday April 6, 2003, the first Regional Academy Day of Germany took place with a common get-together reception on Sunday evening The next SG meeting is planned for IAC Bremen, together with SG CEEOM on Monday, September 29, 17:30 in room Danzig

SG CEEOM First draft of the Position Paper (PP) Cost-Effective Earth Observation Missions is generated To support the PP, a Special Session at the 4 th IAA Symposium in Berlin was dedicated to this subject To support the PP, session IAA.11.1 of the IAC Bremen is dedicated to the subject

SG CEEOM (cont.) For IAC Bremen the next SG meeting is planned together with SG SSMEO in order to –review the status of the PP and –to discuss next actions and workshare of PP

COMMISSION IV Introduction to new Term We are initiating the second term in the life of Commission IV with: –four (4) Study Groups in place –program Committees that have organized the sessions for Bremen and Vancouver and supported different IAA conferences (i.e. Small Satellites etc.). After the good organization reached by my antecessor Pierre Bescond, I would like to continue his outstanding work concentrating the attention of the Commission IV in: –Incentivating the Study Groups and Program Committees proposals. –Increasing the synergy of the Small Satellite Missions Group recently transferred to our Commission with the Earth Observation Group. –Incentivating the proposition of new cosmic studies, conference sessions, and symposia from the program Committees. –Supporting the new growing Study Group on Space Weather and EVA (Extravehicular Activity) and –Maintaining and increasing the interfaces and exchanges with the other Commissions specifically with Commission I in the field of Small Satellite Planetary missions. These are some of the objectives I would like to reach in this Term and I would appreciate very much to have your inputs, new ideas, initiatives, etc. to be presented Monday Sept. 29,2003 at the Commission IV Meeting.