Call for Abstracts: Australian Space Research Conference -  24^th to 26^th November, 2025 - Monash University CBD Campus

The 24th Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC) is planned as a three day conference, to be held in Melbourne over November 24 to 26, 2025 at the Monash University’s CBD Campus.

This conference is organised by the National Space Society of Australia, the Mars Society Australia, and members of the Australian space research community, with a heritage of organising 17 successful meetings to date.

The ASRC is the primary annual meeting for Australian space research. It welcomes researchers, engineers, educators, business and policy, and other workers from across the university, industry and government parts of the space sector, and is not limited to Australian-based research. International participants are most welcome.

The scope of the conference covers both fundamental and applied research related to space science, engineering and technologies, including the following:

• Space science, including space and atmospheric physics, Earth observation and remote sensing, planetary sciences, astrobiology, and space-based astronomy and astrophysics
• Space medicine, space life sciences and human habitability
• Space engineering and technology, including communications, navigation, space operations, propulsion, and spacecraft design, testing, and operation.
• Space industry and space business
• Space archaeology and indigenous sky knowledge (or archaeoastronomy)
• Space situational awareness (SSA), space domain awareness (SDA), and space weather
• Current and future Australian space projects
• Space policy, international relations and law
• Space sector workforce development, education and outreach

Key Dates

• Opening date for ASRC abstracts: 5 August 2025
• Closing date for ASRC abstracts:  5 September 2025
• Registration opens:  12 September 2025
• Acceptance of ASRC abstracts:  19 September 2025
• Draft Program Available:  17 October 2025
• Early-bird Registration closes: 24 October 2025
• Conference Commences: 24 November 2025

To submit an abstract for an oral or (printed) poster presentation, please visit the URL https://www.nssa.com.au/asrc2025. With a commitment to equality and diversity, and to encourage the next generation, we especially welcome abstracts from women, minority groups, and from students.

Student prizes will be awarded for the most outstanding oral and poster presentations in several categories (e.g. HDR, UG). Winners are announced and presented with their prize at the end of the conference.

A female Early Career Researcher award is also presented to recognise professional achievement in space science and promotion of STEM diversity and inclusion.

Following the conference, attendees will have the option to submit papers on their presentations for the peer-reviewed proceedings of the meeting. Those proceedings will be published with an ISBN. Previous proceedings may be located at URL: https://www.nssa.com.au/asrc-proceedings

All interested are invited to attend. Please also make the conference known to your colleagues.

You may email asrcconference@nssa.com.au for more information.

Wayne Short, Co-Chair, National Space Society of Australia

Iver Cairns, Co-Chair, University of Sydney

Lily Qiao, Chair, Program Committee, University of New South Wales, Canberra

National Space Society of Australia

GPO BOX 7048, SydneyAustralia