Committee on Space Research
The
Committee on Space Research (
COSPAR) was established on October 3, 1958 by the
International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU) and its first chair was
Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl. Among COSPAR's objectives are the promotion of scientific research in
space on an international level, with emphasis on the free exchange of results, information, and opinions, and providing a forum, open to all
scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect
space research. These objectives are achieved through the organization of symposia, publication, and other means.
COSPAR has created a number of research programmes on different topics, a few in cooperation with other scientific Unions. The long-term project
COSPAR international reference atmosphere started in 1960; since then it has produced several editions of the high-atmosphere code
CIRA. The code "IRI" of the
URSI-COSPAR working group on the
International Reference Ionosphere was first edited in 1978 and is updated annually.
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