After the success of the first ICST, organized in Thessaloniki in 2009, the second one will take place in Athens on September 15-17, 2011. The General Chairman of the event is Prof Helmut Suess (DLR). The Conference will open with the Keynote presentation by Prof Jim Newman, Astronaut and Professor at Goddard Space Center. Keynote speeches will be given also by Prof Zink (DLR) on microsatellite formations and Dr Trakas, Chairman of OGC, on international standards for space technology. There are also invited talks on the James Webb Space Telescope by Dr Greenhouse of the Goddard Space Flight Center and by Dr Martinez-Galarce of Lockheed Martin on recent advances in optics for solar physics. In addition, there will be a special Industry session where OHD, Astrium and 16 Greek Industries working on Space technology will present their products. More than 40 renown scientists from all over the world will present their recent research on as diverse topics as satellite engineering and Earth Observation as well as deep space Astronomy, and satellite power systems and control. The conference is going to be held in the heart of Athens, at the Royal Olympic Hotel, next to the Columns of Olympian Zeus, a stone’s throw from Acropolis and Plaka. The Conference is organized by the Greek Space Agency, a non-profit organization created to promote Space Technology in Greece, and it is sponsored by DLR, Astrium, OHD, EVIDITE (Greek Space Industry Association), IEEE, IET Hellas, the Technical University of Athens, the University of Patras and ITI-CERTH.

"IET Hellas will give a prize of 200 Euros to the Best Paper by an author under 35 years of age, at the opening ceremony of the Conference"

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