The 32nd ICAS Congress to be held in Shanghai, China, had to be postponed to 6-10 September 2021 due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, ICAS is able to accept additional abstracts for the Shanghai Congress. If you wish to submit an abstract to the Shanghai Congress, please visit the ICAS webpage for the instructions on how to create and upload your proposed abstract. Please be advised that these newly submitted abstracts, if accepted, will be scheduled in place of any presentations that may become unavailable as an effect of the conference postponement to 2021. You will be notified of acceptance or otherwise of your abstract as soon as it is evaluated.
Membership of ICAS is open only to national societies according to their statutes dedicated to the advancement
of the science of aeronautics (or aeronautics and space), having their seat in a nation which has been recognized by the United Nations.
Per nation only one Member Society can be admitted.
The Status of ICAS Associate
Member can be obtained by societies from the same nation
as a Member and industrial companies, research organisations
and others approved by the ICAS Executive Committee.
EVENT
TIME
LOCATION
Congress 2021
06.-10. September 2021
Shanghai China
EC MEETING 2021
May 2021
Paris France
PC meeting/ETF 2021
in conjunction with the congress in Shanghai
Shanghai China
EC MEETING 2022
tbd
tbd
Congress 2022
04.-09. September 2022
Stockholm Sweden
The ICAS organisation consists of two corporate bodies, the Council (being the assembly of Member Societies), having all authority other than the authority given to others according to the law or these Statutes and the Executive Committee, responsible for the management of ICAS. The Council appoints the Executive Committee for a two year period.
Since 2011 the ICAS Secretariat is hosted by the German
member society Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt.
Axel Probst is the ICAS Executive Secretary. He is assisted
by Bodo Heinrichs as ICAS Coordinator.
c/o DGLR
Godesberger Allee 70
53175 BONN, Germany
Phone: +49.228.3080519
Fax: +49.228.3080524
E-mail: icas(at)icas.org
"ICAS – The first Fifty Years", edited by F.J. Stark and finalised in 2008, when ICAS
celebrated its 50th anniversary, can be downloaded here.
A short summary about the history of ICAS, as included in the ICAS 2008 Congress Programme,
can be downloaded (here).
The first Guggenheim Lecture in 1958 was held by T. von Karman and he provides, as an introduction,
some interesting backg-round on how it all started. His lecture can be downloded (here).
The lecture "ICAS - THE FIRST 50 YEARS“ presented at ICAS 2008 by Dr John E. Green can be downloaded
here.
The locations of the ICAS Congresses over the past decades are listed on the page "History".
