This year marks a remarkable achievement for ICPMSE: its 10th meeting. Since the first meeting in 1992, the conference has grown steadily, attracting a large number of engineers, scientists, researchers and managers from industrial companies, scientific institutions and government agencies in North and South Americas, Asia and Europe, thus becoming a true international event.
The goals of this meeting, as in the past years, are to facilitate exchanges between members of the various engineering and science disciplines involved in the development of space materials, including aspects of space environment of LEO, GEO and Deep Space, ground-based qualification, and in-flight experiments and lessons learned from operational vehicles that are closely interrelated to disciplines of atmospheric sciences, solar-terrestrial interactions and space life sciences.
The knowledge of environmental conditions at and around Moon, Mars, Venus and the low Earth orbit as well as other possible candidates for landing such as asteroids, as announced recently by the USA President became an important issue. Protection of the hardware and the human life from the factors of the space environment is getting new meaning in light of the increased interest in space travel and colonization of other planets.
