Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE)

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Alice K. B. Monet

AAS Secretary

History: Name changed (April 2023), formerly the Committee for Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris (LPRISD); Name changed (January 1988, Austin)

Members: Appointed by the Board of Trustees.

Term: Three years, June - June, from the close of one Annual Members' Meeting to the close of the next Annual Members' Meeting.

Chair: One year, June to June, from the close of one Annual Members' Meeting to the close of the next Annual Members' Meeting.

Charge: COMPASSE represents the interests of AAS relating to the protection of dark and radio-quiet skies, the safe and sustainable use of outer space, and related issues, and empowers AAS members to be effective advocates for the protection of US astronomy.

More Information

Recent Materials from the Committee:

2022 Webinar: From Sky Glow to Satellite Swarms: Challenges to Astronomy from Ground and Space (Video | Slides)
2022 Response to Request for Information from White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on uses of Cislunar Space (Document)
2021: SATCON2 Report (Archive)
2020: SATCON1 Report
2020: The Industrialization of Space (Presentation; Chris Impey, University of Arizona)
2020: Mega-Constellations of Satellites and Optical Astronomy (Presentation | Press Briefing; Patrick Seitzer, University of Michigan)
2020: Radio Astronomy in a New Era of Radiocommunication (Presentation | Press Briefing; Harvey Liszt, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
2020: Satellite's Impacts on the General Public (Presentation | Press Briefing; Ruskin Hartley, International Dark-Sky Association)
2020: Starlink and the Astronomers (Press Briefing; Jeffrey C. Hall, Lowell Observatory)