ESSC
52nd Plenary
14-15 November 2016
Strasbourg, FR
ESSC 52nd Plenary Meeting
The European Space Science Committee (ESSC) met for their 52nd plenary meeting on the 14-16th of November 2016 at the ESF headquarter in Strasbourg, France. The meeting was attended by 39 participants including the ESSC members, the ESSC Secretariat, and the representatives from European and International institutions, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Agency for Space Programme (EUSPA), the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), the Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (SSB), and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI), the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Invited Guests
Mario Amaral
Space Policy and Research Unit, European Commission-DG GROW
Maurice Borgeaud
Head of Earth Observation Department (EO), Science, Applications and Climate, European Space Agency
Luigi Colangeli
Head of the Science Coordination Office for the Scientific Programme, European Space Agency
Jean-Louis Fellous
Executive Director, COSPAR
Marc Heppener
Chief Science Officer for Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration (HRE), European Space Agency
Wu Ji
Director, National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), CN
Oleg Korablev
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, IKI
Bhavya Lal
Study Committee Co-chair, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, USA
Michael Moloney
Director, Space Studies Board (SSB), US
Toru Yamada
Director of International Strategy and Coordination at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, JP
Jean-Claude Worms
ESF Chief Executive Officer, ex-officio member