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The Australian Space Research Conference  is being held at the University of NSW on the December 2-4, 2024

This conference is organised by the National Space Society of Australia, Mars Society Australia, and members of the Australian space research community with a heritage of organising 16 successful ASRC meetings to date.

The organising committee extends a warm invitation to space scientists, engineers, educators, and industry, government, and NGO personnel.

Key dates are:

Abstracts Accepted: 20 September 2024

Registrations Open: 30 September 2024

Draft Program Release: 14 October 2024

Conference Start: 2 December 2024

Conference End: 4 December 2024

For more details visit;

https://www.nssa.com.au/asrc2024

The 23rd Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC) is planned as a 3 day conference to be held in Sydney over December 2 to 4, 2024 at the University of NSW (Kensington Campus).

This conference is organised by the National Space Society of Australia, Mars Society Australia and members of the Australian space research community with a heritage of organising 16 successful meetings to date.

The ASRC is the primary annual meeting for Australian space research.

It welcomes researchers, engineers, educators, business and policy, and other workers from across the university, industry and government parts of the space sector, and is not limited to Australian-based research. International participants are most welcome.

Researchers who submitted abstracts for the cancelled Perth conference, have been contacted by the organising committee, and hopefully still be able to present their work in December to their peers.

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MSA is an organisation of like-minded people that provides educational and public outreach, engineering projects and scientific research related to the planet Mars.  You can read more about the MSA here:

https://marssociety.org.au/about

Our board of directors help run day to day operations as well as strategically plan and mange the society's endeavours.

If have an interest in Mars and would like to contribute to the MSA, please consider nominating as a director.  While professional experience in business and science is highly regarded, formal qualifications are not required. The MSA's board is typically made up of people with differing professional experience and interest who share one thing - a passion to better our understanding of Mars...

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Read more about the expeditions and crew here.