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40 Научная ассамблея КОСПАР открыта
4 августа торжественно открылась 40 Научная ассамблея Международного комитета по исследованию космического пространства (COSPAR/КОСПАР). Более двух тысяч ученых, занимающихся исследованиями космоса, приехали в августе в Москву, чтобы обсудить самые новые достижения в этой области физики. Более 4 000 устных и постерных докладов, девять междисциплинарных лекций прозвучат в ходе Ассамблеи — крупнейшего события в космической науке.

Accommodated on the MSU campus

we are looking forward to welcoming you at the COSPAR 2014 in Moscow.
Please have a look at the tips and useful links on how to get to the MSU Campus.

Since there are some check-in procedures In the MSU Campus, please make a copy of the first page of your passport and a page with the russian visa and give it on the COSPAR Registration Desks.

Space Education at Space Assembly in Moscow
More than one hundred students and over fifty secondary school teachers participate in COSPAR 40th Scientific Assembly's special educational program aimed at broader dissemination of space science achievements among those, who train future researchers. It includes lectures, workshops, held by Russian and foreign scientists, and trips to space organizations of Moscow and Moscow region.

Moscow to Host Space Assembly in August

The final program of the 40^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly is now set. More than two thousand experts in space research and exploration will gather in Moscow in August for the 40th Scientific Assembly organized by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The Assembly’s program includes more than 4 000 talks and posters, nine interdisciplinary lectures, a round table dedicated to exoplanets, and a special talk to be given by Viktor Sadovnichy, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University which is the venue for the meeting.

Dear delegates,

We are pleased to announce that for participants of the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly the new rules for obtaining Russian entry visas entered into force.

Currently the sufficient basis for obtaining the visa is the Official Invitation Letter signed by Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

The Local Organizing Committee will provide such letters for all registered participants by request.

Please send your demand to contact@cospar2014moscow.com and our manager will contact you in the shortest time.

Prof. Giovanni Bignami: “The situation in science is in our hands”

Professor Giovanni F. Bignami, president of COSPAR, visited Moscow upon invitation from Russian Academy of Sciences, on 11th of April just before the Cosmonautics Day. Despite an extremely tight schedule, Professor Bignami agreed to answer several short questions concerning upcoming COSPAR Scientific Assembly and current state of space science.