International Cooperation in Space and Earth Science Highlighted During Space Science Week
Editor’s Note: We welcome Marc S. Allen as a contributor to SpacePolicyOnline.com. Marc recently formed his own consulting company, Odonata Research, after a career at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, at the National Research Council’s Space Studies Board (SSB), in the private sector, and as an astronomer.
Marc attended the SSB’s session on Tuesday (March 29), part of its annual Space Science Week, that included a panel on international programs and cooperation in space and earth sciences. Panelists were from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the German space agency DLR. The discussion ranged from the status of JAXA’s Hitomi (Astro-H) satellite to ESA’s space and earth science strategy to Germany’s plans especially in earth remote sensing to China’s upcoming space science projects, which include the SMILE joint mission with ESA. His notes from the panel discussion are posted on SpacePolicyOnline.com.
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