Security and policy issues of space activities - Space and Security
The 9th of February saw one of the first conferences in Europe on the sensitive topic of “space and security”, featuring six presentations of high-ranking experts in the areas of strategic planning, international law, technology and economics as well as policy making, followed by an intense discussion on what types of challenges and threats are to be taken into account, how the USA and Europe are dealing with them and what Europe should do in the near future to establish a successful security and military defence doctrine, while utilising the power-multiplying factor “space”.
Download Summary (pdf 112 KB)Download the presentations:
- Bgdr. Gerald Karner - "Space as an Integral Strategic Factory" (pdf 67 KB)
- Mag. Alexander Soucek - "Governmental and private high
resolution satellite surveillance resolution satellite surveillance from space – Living in a showcase?" (pdf 4 MB)
- Dr. Werner Balogh - "Space & Security: European Space Policy and National
Space Agencies" (pdf
1,7 MB)
- Dr. Rene Oosterlinck - "Galileo" (pdf 2,3 MB)
- Lt Col Pete Hays - "Current and Future Military Uses of Space" (pdf 1,6 MB)
- Dr. Revelas Kyriakos - "European Security and Defence
Policy (ESDP)- vision and reality" (pdf 67 KB)
PolAres Schedule Update
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
This field mission is supported by the Ibn-Battuta-Center at the University of Marrakesh, Morocco. The Austrian Space Forum now solicitates proposals to be reviewed by a selection panel. The deadline for submissions is 15. June 2012, the announcement of the successful experiments will be released on 15. July 2012.
Detail
The analysis of Mars analogue environments on Earth is of paramount importance for the interpretation of the data from past, present and future orbital and landed missions, as well as mission planning (both robotic and human). Sedimentary environments in particular attract strong interest because they can retain the palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental history of the planet and under the right conditions may harbour fossil or present life signatures.
Date: 25. - 27. October 2012
Location: Conference Centre of the Hotel Meridien N'Fis at Marrakech, Morocco Organization: European Space Agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, International Association of Sedimentologits, Ibn Battuta Centre, IRSPS, Universite Cadi Ayyad.
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
