B: Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System

B0.1   Sponsoring, Enabling, and Operating Global Facilities and Services for New Space Entrepreneurs

Building on the success of the B3.2 Scientific Event at the COSPAR 45 Assembly in Busan, this Scientific Event brings together Science and New Space participants to provide research ideas, mission designs, and new operating practices to be supported by a global consortia of New Space entrepreneurs and researchers, together with Industry, Space Agencies and global sponsors and supporters including the World Economic Forum. The Event will specifically address how space exploration and technology can offer solutions to global challenges including new avenues of resource development, opportunities in better understanding the impacts of space weather in the Earth-Moon system, and new means of mitigating the risks of climate change, in pursuing Frontier space exploration science and technologies. Importantly, this Event will highlight the Technology Gaps that Space science can address by collaborating and partnering with New Space entrepreneurs, in collaboration with the COSPAR Associates community, and established Space agency and Industry players. In particular, we hope to discover and add practical layers to how COSPAR’s new Centres of Excellence can act as a key fulcrum for a wider variety of New Space players and sponsors to expand both the boundaries and benefits of new scientific Frontier Space Exploration, while helping create the means and interest to support it.