Jan.6, 2011
At the Space Science Symposium at ISAS/JAXA, a 3-hour special session titled "SPICA's Challenge" was held. Speakers in and outside the preproject team talked about the purpose and significance of the SPICA mission., which gained much attention from a room full of the audience
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Dec.16-17, 2010
Over 110 partcipants in various fields joined Spica Science Workshop at National Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo., where they discussed the detailed specificaions of observational instruments to be on SPICA.
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