IAC 2016 Plenaries and Highlight Lectures
The IAC Plenary Programme features an exciting selection of high-level Plenary Sessions, Highlight Lectures and Late-breaking News events.
Highlight lectures
HIGHLIGHT LECTURE 1: Mars Base Camp
Wednesday 28 September 2016, 17:45 – 18:45 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
HIGHLIGHT LECTURE 2: The Exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt by New Horizons
Thursday 29 September 2016, 17:45 – 18:45 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
HIGHLIGHT LECTURE 3: The Saturn System as a Natural Laboratory to Investigate the Emergence of Biology
Friday 30 September, 08:30 – 09:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
Plenary events
PLENARY 1: Heads of Agencies
Monday 26 September 2016, 13:30 – 15:00 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 4,5,6,9&10
PLENARY 2: Satellite Communications Making Connectivity Accessible and Affordable to Latin-American Countries to Reduce the Digital Divide – Host Plenary
Monday 26 September 2016, 18:15 – 19:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 4,5,6,9&10
PLENARY 3: Space and Climate: How Space Agencies Will Contribute to the Implementation and Follow-up of the Paris Agreement during COP 21
Tuesday 27 September 2016, 08:30 – 09:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 4,5,6,9&10
PLENARY 4: Innovative Solutions for Making Space Accessible and Affordable – Next Generation PE
Tuesday 27 September 2016, 17:45 – 18:45 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 4,5,6,9&10
PLENARY 5: Living For a Year on ISS: Early Results and Lessons Learned. #YearInSpace
Wednesday 28 September 2016, 08:30 – 09:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
PLENARY 6: Realizing Mars Sample Return through Human and Robotic Collaboration
Thursday 29 September 2016, 08:30 – 09:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
PLENARY 7: Projection and Stability of the Orbital Debris Environment in the Light of Planned Mega-Constellation Deployments
Thursday 29 September 2016, 13:30 – 14:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 9&10
Late breaking news
LATE BREAKING NEWS: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
Tuesday 27 September 2016, 13:30 – 14:30 • Location: Guadalajara Hall 4,5,6,9&10
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