Committee on Space Research

Committee on Space Research
	COSPAR
Abbreviation	COSPAR
Formation	1958
Type	INGO
Location	Paris, France;
Region served	Worldwide
Official language	English, French
President	Dr. J.-L. Fellous
Parent organization	International Council for Science
Website	COSPAR Official website

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) was established by the International Council for Science in 1958.

Among COSPAR's objectives are the promotion of scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the free exchange of results, information, and opinions, and providing a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect space research. These objectives are achieved through the organization of symposia, publication, and other means. COSPAR has created a number of research programmes on different topics, a few in cooperation with other scientific Unions. The long term project COSPAR international reference atmosphere started in 1960; since then it produced several editions of the high atmosphere code CIRA, The code "IRI" of the URSI-COSPAR working group on the International Reference Ionosphere was first edited in 1978 and is yearly updated.

General Assembly

Every second year COSPAR calls for a General Assembly (also called Scientific Assembly). These are conferences currently gathering more than a thousand participating space researchers. The most recent assemblies are listed below. ^[1]

General Assembly	Year	Place	Country
41st	2016	Istanbul	Turkey
40th	2014	Moscow	Russia
39th	2012	Mysore	India
38th	2010	Bremen	Germany
37th	2008	Montreal	Canada
36th	2006	Beijing	China
35th	2004	Paris	France
34th	2002	Houston	United States
33rd	2000	Warsaw	Poland