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4 June 2008. British Interplanetary Society: What's Up with Small Satellites
Location: BIS Headquarters, 27/29 South Lambeth Rd, London, United Kingdom
Info: A light hearted look at current and future missions with small satellites, with an emphasis on activities at SSTL and the science missions that are now becoming possible as small satellites become increasingly sophisticated. (Add to Google Calendar)


5 June 2008 to 15 June 2008. Youth Space Centre: Russian Space Workshop
Location: Bauman State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
Info: This provides an opportunity for well motivated students and other interested people from around the world to go to Russia to visit the key parts of the Russian Space Program. UKSEDS organises a trip for participants from the UK. They meet up with other students from around the world including Russia, at the Youth Space Centre, run by Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The workshop takes them through the historical aspects of the Space Race from the Russian perspective and introduces them to the state of the art in space exploration. They meet key figures - cosmonauts, astronauts, engineers and directors from across this whole spectrum. (Add to Google Calendar)


7 June 2008. British Interplanetary Society: Chinese/Soviet Symposium
Location: BIS Headquarters, 27/29 South Lambeth Rd, London, United Kingdom
Info: This is the Society’s major Forum for hearing from and talking to the experts on the Chinese/Soviet Space Programme.Would any person wishing to present a paper at the next Forum please submit a title and abstract of 50 words to the Executive Secretary by Post: 27/29 South Lambeth Rd, London, SW8 1SZ or Email: mail@bis-spaceflight.com (Add to Google Calendar)


7 June. Technologies of the Frontier: A New Renaissance: colonizing the Moon and the Near Earth Asteroids
Location: Belgirate, Italy
Info: A wide colonization plan shall be drawn, seeking the collaboration and fair competition of the best and most advanced communities, on planet Earth. Industrial communities, not only scientific ones, to build a wide choral effort, to encourage and help the individuals and the companies which want to undertake in Space Tourism, Astronautic innovative Technologies, Moon Exploration and Industrialization, Asteroids raw materials exploitation.


9 June 2008 to 13 June 2008. International Astronomical Union: IAU Symposium 254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context
Location: The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Info: Discussions at the Symposium will focus on formulating specific projects that can lead to major progress in the near future, using new observational and modelling tools. (Add to Google Calendar)


10 June, 13:00 to 14:00. Royal Astronomical Society: Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble: a brief history of the most famous telescope ever made
Location: Burlington House, London, United Kingdom (map)
Info: Dr Chris Lintott, co-presenter of the 'Sky at Night', STFC Science and Society Fellow and researcher at the University of Oxford, will tell the story of the Hubble Space Telescope. In August, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis will carry out one of the most difficult repairs in history, with the aim of restoring the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to full working order. Since its launch in 1990, HST has overcome the problem of its flawed mirror to produce a multitude of important scientific discoveries. This lecture will tell its story, and look forward to discoveries still to be made.


11 June 2008 to 20 June 2008. United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs: COPUOS Meeting
Location: Vienna, Austria
Info: In 1958, shortly after the launching of the first artificial satellite, the General Assembly decided to establish an ad hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, with 18 members, in order to consider: the activities and resources of the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other international bodies relating to the peaceful uses of outer space; international cooperation and programmes in the field that could appropriately be undertaken under United Nations auspices; organizational arrangements to facilitate international cooperation in the field within the framework of the United Nations; and legal problems which might arise in programmes to explore outer space. (Add to Google Calendar)


14 June 2008. British Interplanetary Society: BIS Science Museum Tour and Lecture
Location: BIS Headquarters, 27/29 South Lambeth Rd, London, United Kingdom
Info: Members of the British Interplanetary Society have the opportunity to attend a lecture on the history of the space displays at the Science Museum and then enjoy a guided tour of its present Exploring Space Gallery with Doug Millard, Senior Curator of Space Technology. (Add to Google Calendar)


16 June 2008 to 20 June 2008. International Astronomical Union: IAU Symposium 255: Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxie
Location: Rapallo, Italy
Info: Aims to foster an open exchange among different astronomical communities by placing in juxtaposition, for the first time, low-redshift observational astronomers and observational cosmologists, as well as observers and theoreticians. (Add to Google Calendar)


23 to 28 June. SPIE: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Meeting
Location: Marseilles, France
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