ISSI's collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
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The ISSI Board of Trustees accepted the offer from the the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) to establish a formal cooperation with ISSI.
Pictures showing the ceremony of signing the agreement between ISSI, represented by Simon Aegerter, and representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the 1st July 2010.
Russian Academy of Sciences >> |
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Newly Approved International Teams in 2010
23 Teams have been selected for the Implementation among the proposals received in the 2010 Call for International Teams by the Science Committee.
Further details on the International Teams selected in 2010 >
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"Star Story" a documentary film with ISSI's Executive Director Roger-Maurice Bonnet
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"Mystery of the Flyby anomaly" an Article by an ISSI Team in the Magazine SPEKTRUM
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Since the early 1990's scientists and mission controllers have noticed that some spacecraft experience unexpected changes in speed during Earth-flybys.
The unexplained variation is very small but clearly measurable and has occurred as either speed gained or lost. Until now no explination of these observations have been found. Prof. Claus Lämmerzahl and his collaborators meet several times as an ISSI Team to understand this mystery. Please find a story in German on this research study by the Team Leader Prof. Lämmerzahl:
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ISSI and Earth Science
ISSI has entered a more formal relationship with ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes Directorate. A programme (2008-2010) was set up addressing topics of interdisciplinary character and of relevance for ESA’s Living Planet programme and for the International Polar Year (IPY).
Link to ISSI's Programme in Earth Science > |
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ISSI and the Science Programme Committee (SPC) of ESA
ISSI presented a report of its activities to ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) in view of the renewal of with the financial support it receives from the Directorate of Science and Robotic Exploration. The report gives an overview of the main achievements of the Institute between 2006 and 2009.
ISSI Report for the ESA Science Programme Committee (pdf) >>
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New Publications
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a summarize of a talk by David Southwood, edited by Hansjörg Schlaepfer
SPATIUM Volume 24, published in February 2010
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Space Science Series of ISSI Volume 34:
Confronting Theory and Experiment in Space
Everitt, C.W.F.; Huber, M.; Kallenbach, R.; Schäfer, G.; Schutz, B.F.; Treumann, R.A. (Eds.)
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This book is the result of an international Workshop on Gravity and the various attempts of checks of the role of General Relativity in Gravity that are based on space data. In its centre stand data on Gravitomagnetism, in particular the results of the Gravity Probe B ‘null-experiment’ that has measured the Lense-Thirring effect in orbit around the Earth, data derived from observation of astrophysical systems as well as from laser ranging of Earth-orbiting satellites. Tests of possible violations of Newton ’s inverse-square law and the equivalence principle are discussed as well as the problem of the constancy of the fundamental physics constants, and constraints on gravitational theory from cosmological observations, Quantum Gravity and Grand Unified Theory. In these respects emphasis is put on the assessment of uncertainty, i.e., to the question as to what extentd high-accuracy measurements are possible in space.
Further information on the Space Sciences Series of ISSI >
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last update: 14 July 2010 by A. Fischer
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