„The 10th International Symposium on ” Materials in a Space Environment ” (ISMSE) is to be held from 19-23 June 2006, in Collioure (France).

The Symposium is being organised by the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) in collaboration with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The aims of the symposium are to facilitate exchanges between members of the various engineering disciplines concerned by the different aspects of space materials development and applications, on-ground qualification, in-flight experiments and lessons learned from operational spacecraft and balloons.

For the year 2006, this Symposium will be combined with the 8th International Conference on ” Protection of Materials and Structures in a Space Environment ” (ICPMSE) organised by ITL Inc. (Integrity Testing Laboratory) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

This conference will cover a range of inter-disciplinary topics concerning the protection of materials and structures in space. Its main objective is to continue the discussion on the effects of the aggressive space environment on materials and structures and to discuss ways of predicting and reducing these for short and long-term space missions.”
Rezumate: 12 Sept. 2005

http://www.cert.fr/colloques/ismse2006/aboutSymposium.htm