ILWS CHARTER

    MISSION:
    Stimulate, strengthen, and coordinate space research to understand the governing processes of the connected Sun-Earth System as an integrated entity.

     

    OBJECTIVES
    To Stimulate and Facilitate:

    1. Study of the Sun-Earth connected system and the effects which influence life and society.
    2. Collaboration among potential partners in solar-terrestrial space missions.
    3. Synergistic coordination of international research in solar-terrestrial studies, including all relevant data sources as well as theory and modeling.
    4. Effective and user driven access to all data, results, and value-added products. 

     

    MEMBERSHIP
    Space organizations committed to contribute to ILWS over the next decade.  Contributions to include any of the following:

    • Space Flight Missions
    • Mission payloads or subsystems
    • Mission launch or tracking services
    • Additional data sources supporting flight missions (sounding rockets, balloon, or ground-based)
    • Data dissemination, storage, distribution, and value adding systems
    • Supporting theory and modeling