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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The 43rd COSPAR Assembly will be held August 15-22, 2018 at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia. We will be convening a session, C2.4 entitled "Small satellite missions for Aeronomy and
Ionosphere Studies”. </span>This session will focus on current, near-term approved and conceptual small/micro and nano-satellite missions to observe the Earth’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and for monitoring space weather. The cubesat approach to low earth
orbit Space missions combined with recent advances in cubesat technologies offer innovative cost-effective solutions for addressing fundamental scientific questions in these fields. Other focus areas include advances in scientific instrumentation for cubesat
platforms, the use of distributed platforms for instruments, nano-satellite constellations, using small satellite technologies for space capacity building and innovative ride sharing opportunities for access to space<i>.</i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">
We would like to encourage you to submit a contributed talk to this session.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> The Assembly web page address is: <a href="https://www.cospar-assembly.org"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:purple">https://www.cospar-assembly.org</span></a>. Please note that abstract submission is now
open and abstracts are due by February 14th. Abstracts can be submitted at <a href="https://www.cospar2020.org/abstracts.php">
https://www.cospar2020.org/abstracts.php</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">A selection of refereed papers from the event will be published in <i>Advances in Space Research </i>or <i>Life Sciences in Space Research</i>, and authors are encouraged to submit
manuscripts after the Assembly for consideration. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Amal Chandran, NTU Singapore</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Loren Chang, NCU Taiwan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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