Date: Saturday 3 June 2023, 10:00-1700 BST
Venue: BIS HQ, London and Online
The BIS International Space Forum
After a short break, we are reinstating the Forum, building on its successful heritage and developing it to widen its horizons.
The newly titled ‘BIS International Space Forum’ is an evolution of the long-standing and highly successful ‘Sino-Russian Technical Forum’. This is a meeting place for discussing and reporting on all international space activities, exploring the latest insights into critical issues within the space domain from across the globe and is now open to the reporting of wider international affairs.
The Forum aims to report, discuss and track the progress and heritage of international efforts to advance astronautics, either those being made by individual nations or collectively, highlighting areas of interdependence between different space programmes, and the opportunities/challenges in how and where the global space community can or should be working together.
This year gives an opportunity for past attendees of the Forum to re-group and welcome new attendees to become part of the discussion. We invite contributions that can be included either as presented talks, or as guided discussions/debate and welcome topics covering historic, current, and future perspectives. A summary of the Forum will be reported in the Society’s publications.
Topics can include past, present or future perspectives on international space activities, e.g.:
- International relations and interdependence of space programmes across different countries.
- Collaboration between governments and the private/commercial space sector.
- Emerging space technologies, new practices, international standards.
- International space policy, legal, regulatory and security challenges/opportunities.
- Sociopolitical and financial barriers, proposed ideas and solutions.
- Opportunities for Improving Space Education, Spin-out activities and benefits to Life on Earth.
- Celebrations of successes and insights/lessons learned from history.
There will also be an open discussion session on how future International Space Forums could or should be run. We will be looking for volunteers to become part of the organising team and for ideas for the continued development of the Forum – Your attendance and contribution will be strongly welcomed!
The Call for Papers has now Closed – the Final Programme is listed here below:
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BIS International Space Forum 2023 – Programme
09:30 Arrival and Registration (In-Person Attendees)
10:00 Welcome Address and Introduction (Zoom meeting open)
10:10 Morning Session
- Chinese AIT and Maritime Logistic Support to Major Missions – Andrew Thomas
- Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (1921 – 1995) – Centenary – Kenelm England
[Comfort Break 10 mins]
- Salyut 6: The 1st 6 Months – Andrew Knight
- From Bristol to Mars, via Kazakhstan; memories of the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, carried to Mars with the ESA Mars Express spacecraft – Terry Ransome
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Afternoon Session
- Commercialisation of the Soviet space sector in the late 1980s – Olga Dubrovina
- A Preliminary Survey of Russian Starship Research and Novel Concepts – Kelvin Long
[Comfort Break 10 mins]
- Ethics in Extraterrestrial Nanotechnology – Nina Kojima
- Psychopolitical Issues In a Lunar Colony – Nick Kanas
16:50 Open Discussion Session
- Feedback from the day
- Future format and direction of the Forum
- Other ideas topics for additional Forums, Open Suggestions
17:00 Close
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Ticket Prices (all prices are inclusive of VAT):
Non-member Rates – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
- Delegate (Standard)
- £40 (In-person)
- £30 (Online)
- Delegate (Student*/Over 65s)
- £30 (In-person)
- £20 (Online)
Speaker / BIS Member Rates – – – – — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
- Delegate (Standard)
- £30 (In-person)
- £20 (Online)
- Delegate (Student*/Over 65s)
- £20 (In-person)
- £10 (Online)
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