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.
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.
A Next-Generation
Infrared Astronomy Missoin
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Overall Image of SPICA

SPICA BLM
AKARI's infrared image of a star-forming complex Cygnus-X
Revealing the origins of planets and galaxies
A Space
Observatory,
1.5 million km away