International Symposium on Solar Sailing

Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing
From the website:

The fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2017) will be held on 17th - 20th January 2017 at the Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan. Following the tradition since 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2007), ISSS 2017 will focus on recent advances in solar sailing technologies and near-term solar sailing missions after the success of Japanese IKAROS and American LightSail. Areas of particular interest include hardware, enabling technologies, concepts, designs, dynamics, navigation, control, modeling, and mission applications and programs.

Links

 * Official website: http://www.jsforum.or.jp/ISSS2017/
 * Second announcement: http://www.jsforum.or.jp/ISSS2017/pdf/2nd_announcement_Solar_Sailing_2017.pdf

Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing
The Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing will be held June 11-13th, 2013, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. From the call for papers: the third International Symposium on Solar Sailing will provide a unique opportunity to bring together international experts from across the globe to discuss funded solar sail flight programs alongside on-going technology development and testing programs. The symposium will also provide a forum for the discussion of enabling technologies, new application concepts, materials and structural concepts, space environmental effects, dynamics, navigation, control, and much more.

Links

 * http://www.solarsailing2013.com/

Second International Symposium on Solar Sailing
The Second International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2010) was held July 20-22, 2010, at the New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. The symposium will focus on recent advances in solar sailing technologies and near-term solar sailing missions. The topics to be addressed include dynamics analysis and testing of solar sails, advanced materials and structural concepts of solar sails, space environmental effects and a solar spacecraft protection, solar spacecraft charging, enabling technologies, concepts, dynamics, navigation, control, modeling, mission applications, and programs.

Links

 * http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2010/

1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing
The 1st International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS2007) was held 27 - 29 June 2007 at Herrsching at Lake Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany. It covered recent advances in solar sailing technologies and near-term solar sailing missions, areas of particular interest being hardware, enabling technologies, concepts, designs, dynamics, navigation, control, modeling, mission applications, and programs.

Links

 * http://www.isss.spacesailing.net/