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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CEDAR Newsletter,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you could please distribute the attached webinar announcement to the CEDAR Newsletter/mailing list. Our webinar is on September 2<sup>nd</sup> so if you would be so kind as to distribute today we would greatly appreciate it. Thank
you in advance for your assistance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please free to contact me with any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michele<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Michele Callagy, Executive Assistant to Dr. Daniel N. Baker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Office: 303-735-4726, <a href="mailto:Michele.Callagy@lasp.colorado.edu">
<span style="color:blue">Michele.Callagy@lasp.colorado.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">COSPAR Smallsat Town Hall Webinar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">American Region
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2 September 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">10:00-11:30 am MT /
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">REGISTER HERE</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Free registration)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">COSPAR International Constellation of Small Spacecraft<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) in 2019 established a new Task Group to develop an “actionable” plan for an international constellation of small satellites. As a background
for taking such an approach, COSPAR quoted from its March 2019 Strategic Plan:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“As a demonstration of COSPAR’s value to its Members, and its importance in space research, COSPAR should explore the possibility of assembling an international consortium
that will develop, launch, and acquire data from a constellation of small satellites. As always with COSPAR activities, participation in the consortium would be voluntary. The small satellites with instruments would need to be provided by member nations, and
there will need to be a major space agency(s) that facilitates launches and data collection. It will be important that the constellation yields useful and important data, so that each contributing nation can state that it is assisting in the solution of an
important scientific problem. A particularly useful constellation would be one that measures the plasma conditions in the ionosphere, with sufficient measurement density to substantially improve space weather forecasts.”</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The COSPAR team, known formally as the Task Group on establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites (TGCSS), began its deliberative work in early March of 2020. The Task Group members agreed
to start addressing several key issues and concerns:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Smallsat design/system engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data archiving/sharing/standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Task Group members have recognized two important and distinct aspects of the COSPAR Action Plan. One branch of activity should be geared toward harnessing and taking good advantage of what
international COSPAR adherents already are doing in the smallsat realm. By identifying and orchestrating such efforts, COSPAR is able to perform a worthwhile service to the space community and the nations of the world. The other aspect of this plan is to
build capacity amongst nations and institutions that presently have little (or no) space involvement or experience. By bringing more developing nations to the “space exploration table”, COSPAR will greatly increase and benefit the entire space enterprise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At present – under the aegis of the TGCSS – COSPAR has been polling nations and various adherent bodies around the world. The question being posed is whether COSPAR entities are interested in
this smallsat program and what elements the adherent nations might wish to “lay on the table” now or in the near future. The inquiry is also seeking ideas on what various parties might do to help support the proposed smallsat infrastructure.
<span style="background:white">The responses from this COSPAR inquiry will help to inform and guide the next phases of the program. The significant number of positive responses received so far denotes a strong interest in the community for this initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Our interest and intention of involving industry in meaningful ways should also be highlighted. Finding industry partners through the good offices of COSPAR could help jump start
programs for many aspiring nations and institutions. If industry partners wished to contribute expertise, hardware, or data support, this would be welcome in a program such as envisioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Those community members interested in this smallsat initiative should look at an
</span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752929820300384"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">article [Baker et al., 2020] in the August 2020 issue of Space Research Today</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Also, please feel free to </span>
<a href="mailto:cospar@cosparhq.cnes.fr"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">contact the COSPAR Headquarters office</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> to get more information and to express interest in this effort. We hope to have
a set of regional (Europe, Asia, American sector) “town hall” meetings to explore this concept. The first of these will be the American sector webinar to be held on 2 September at 12:00 noon EDT. The European/Mid-East/Africa sector will follow about 2 weeks
later and the Asia/Oceania sector will follow about 2 weeks after that. To anticipate attendance levels, we ask those wishing to join the webinar to register with COSPAR.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For the Western Hemisphere webinar please register (free) at
</span><a href="https://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">https://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IeSKSSmeQEy0GUDdsZTtdA</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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