It is my great pleasure and honor to invite you all to the 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, to be hosted in Busan, Korea from July 13 to 21, 2024.

Your ideas, expertise, and experience shared among us, will reshape the future of space science beyond imagination and encourage the development of the next generation of space professionals and students across all regions in this rapidly rising new space age. Korea’s talented and passionate space scientists and engineers, with their rapidly elevated profile and the world’s leading advanced industries at their disposal, will also share our proven capabilities and versatile approaches in channeling academia and industry, and scientific progress in nations with developed and developing space programs.

The COSPAR 2024 LOC, with the support of the Korea AeroSpace Administration, the Korean National Committee for COSPAR, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, and the Korean Space Science Society, are strongly committed to offering the best and most effective platform where all participants can be inspired and enlightened in every way. In addition, Busan is a superlative destination, boasting state-of-the-art conference facilities, the finest accommodations, and a world-class city infrastructure. All participants will have a series of superb and pleasant experiences and opportunities to appreciate Busan’s rich natural, cultural, and urban legacies in and around the assembly.

I eagerly await the pleasure of welcoming all of you to Busan.

Sincerely,


Chair
COSPAR 2024 Local Organizing Committee