Conference Background

Space science and technology has grown rapidly and has gained tremendous importance in the sustainable development of natural resources, telecommunications, meteorology and related fields, and an increase in participants in this field since the last four conferences: the 2009 International Conference on Space Science & Communication (IconSpace2009), IconSpace2011, IconSpace2013, and IconSpace2015, the Space Science Centre (ANGKASA), Institute of Climate Change of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malaysia, UKM) is proud to extend her promotion of research and education in the field of space science, technology and governance by this international conference. The 2017 International Conference on Space Science & Communication (IconSpace2017) with a theme "Space Science for Sustainability" will be the fifth in the series of conferences organized by ANGKASA UKM. IconSpace2017 aims to address advances in research on space science and communication by bringing together researchers in the fields of space science, communication technology, and related fields internationally toward sustainable development. The issue of Space Science for Sustainability will be primarily devoted to space science studies and contain the papers presented at this particular meeting. To document research findings and ideas, we are very pleased to inform that the accepted papers of IconSpace2017 will be published to one of the following category.

1. Journal of Physics: Conference series (JPCS) to be published in Institute of Physics (IOP) Conference Series (Online ISSN: 1742-6596).
2. Book Chapter by Springer Nature.
3. A special issue on "Space Science for Sustainability" by Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP).

2017 International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace2017) took place May 3-5, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The proceedings were edited by Wayan Suparta, Mahamod Ismail, Mardina Abdullah, Siti Aminah Bahari, and Noridawaty Mat Daud