Final announcement for "Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW)" April 18-19 2016

Space Environment and

Kibo Utilization Workshop

(SEKUW)

National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

April 18-19 2016

We are pleased to invite you that the Space Environment and Kibo Utilization Workshop (SEKUW) will be held from 18-19 April 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which is jointly organized by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Space Agency of Malaysia (ANGKASA) the under Space Environment Utilization Working Group (SEUWG), Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF).

Program (PDF File)

Registration (Excel file)

Objectives

This workshop is hosted by SEUWG participant countries and provides various impressive presentations from a lot of research fields aiming space environment utilization in the Kibo. Objective of the workshop is to derive and to find the potential Kibo utilization experiments plan from the presentations of microgravity research. The first workshop was successfully achieved in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2015, and feasibility study for proposed Kibo utilization experiments from the workshop has been begun.

The second workshop, this year will be held in Malaysia. Malaysia had an experiences flight and stayed on the ISS by their own astronaut/Angkasawan, and conducted the Protein Crystal Growth experiment (PCG) in the ISS as the first country in Asia region. We expect to could see microgravity research for space development theme in this time.

Beneficial and instructive talk will be provided by experienced JAXA technical team who are life science specialist and exposed experiment expert of Kibo on during this workshop.

We sincerely hope that you will actively join us in this workshop, and look forward to meeting you in Kuala Lumpur soon.

Space Environment Utilization Working Group

APRSAF-23

Workshop Information

Date and Venue
Date: 18-19 April 2016
Venue: National Planetarium, National Space Agency of Malaysia
　　　　(ANGKASA)
　　　　　53, Jalan Perdana, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
　　　　　http://planetarium.angkasa.gov.my/?q=en

Organized by
Space Environment Utilization Working Group (SEUWG), APRSAF-23

Hosted by
National Space Agency of Malaysia (ANGKASA)

Co-Secretariat
National Space Agency of Malaysia (ANGKASA)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Registration
Please submit to SEUWG@aprsaf.org by April 15

Points of Contact
E-mail: SEUWG@aprsaf.org
Mr. Mohd Helmy Bin Hashim (ANGKASA), Ms. Yoshimi Osada (JAXA)
Phone: +601-2368-9780