In case you missed it, here's how The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit 2025 went down 😎 🫵

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#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #ThankYou

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The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit 2025 is a premier, full-day seminar organized by the Indonesian Stainless Steel Development Association (INASSDA).

Registration is open and seats are limited, so secure your spot and register now!

#INASSDA #StainlessSteelSummit #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteel

7 hari lagi!

Jangan lewatkan kesempatan emas untuk menjadi bagian dari masa depan industri stainless steel di Indonesia.
Daftar sekarang dan amankan tempat Anda melalui inassda.org/register-now/

#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteel #Summit #Seminar

The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit is only 15 days away! 🥳🔥
Are you ready to shape Indonesia’s Stainless Steel Future through Policy, Talent, and Sustainable Application?
Don't miss out and register now!
See you there!✨
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To become a stainless steel specialist, there’s a lot to learn. But the good news is, resources are everywhere online! 🌐✨
Here are our top reccomendation of resources to get you started!
#ISSS2025 #INASSDA #StainlessSteel #Metallurgy #Resources

New to the stainless steel world? Want to be a stainless steel specialist? Don’t know what to learn first?
Here are the distilled, summarized 10 points of what you need to learn.

#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteel #Specialist #Study

As the stainless steel industry grows, a demand for skilled workforce will skyrocket. These skills are to be developed ASAP. Join ISSS 2025 now!
Source:
single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-...

#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #SkilledWorkforce #HighDemand #Job #Career #StainlessSteel

We're excited to announce our new presenter in The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit 2025, Mr Vincent Liao, Country Manager of Indonesia in Shanghai Metals Market!
Join us in The ISSS 2025 and register now!

#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #SMM #ShanghaiMetalsMarket #VincentLiao

Stainless steel has been, and is continuing to spread vastly across industries across the globe. It is everywhere!

Be a part of the stainless steel industry, join the ISSS 2025 now!

Source:
www.neonickel.com/technical-re...

#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #Versatility #StainlessSteel

Should've Would've Could've: Stainless Steel Manufacture Edition

Sources:
Data Export Import - Badan Pusat Statistik Indonesia
eastasiaforum.org/2024/12/24/i...
www.theiconomics.com/change-manag...
#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #Indonesia #Manufacture #StainlessSteel

China has been number 1 consistent top stainless steel exporter in the world - until Indonesia takes the lead in 2023.

Join us in exploring more global trends in The ISSS 2025 now!

Source: Trade Map by International Trade Center
#INASSDA #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteel #Indonesia #GlobalMarket

Don’t miss out on opportunities to explore the industry in-depth! Join The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit 2025 now!
#INASSDA #StainlessSteelAssociation #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteelIndustry #IndustryGrowth

Do you know that the global stainless steel market is expected to grow from USD 148.35 Billion in 2024 to USD 336.38 Billion in 2037?
Source:
www.researchnester.com/reports/stai...
www.montanstahl.com/blog/recycli...
#INASSDA #StainlessSteelAssociation #ISSS2025 #StainlessSteelIndustry #MarketGrowth

The Indonesia Stainless Steel Summit 2025 with theme of “Shaping Indonesia’s Stainless Steel Future: Policy, Talent, and Sustainable Application” is organized by INASSDA with support from the Ministry of Industry and Morowali Metal Industry Polytechnic. Join us! #StainlessSteel #ISSS2025 #INASSDA

Fantastic panel: Queer Surrealist Teasing(s). Presenters left to right: Nigel Lezama, Nicholas Hauck, & Owen Morgan Hughes. #Surrealism #ISSSBogotá #ISSS2025

International Solar Sailing Symposium Our quest to understand the sunshade concept led us to the Delft Technological University in the Netherlands, to the gathering of solar sailing researchers. Most of the ideas for how to build a sunshade are to construct very large solar sails, so this visit was critical to the mission and it paid off with dozens of connections and deeply insightful conversations. Indeed, almost a full day of the conference was dedicated to the sunshade concept - more on that below. For those new to this work, solar sailing is when a spacecraft propels itself with a sail that catches the tiny momentum inherent in sunlight. This is thanks to the concept that photos have momentum but not mass, Six solar sail missions have flown, demonstrating the principle. These have all been tiny demonstrations, and plans for larger missions have been cut. Space agencies say “Why trust a valuable scientific payload to a relatively new spacecraft concept when a tried and true thruster will get the job done?’’ However, some missions just aren’t possible with thrusters and sails remain a nascent technology area, ready to show off what they can do. The solar sailing community is passionate about the potential of solar sails to fly unique missions. Here’s a taste of some of those missions and the people behind them: Nerdiest T-shirt ever? Image Courtesy Cornell University * We heard a lot about the Solar Cruiser mission, which would have been the largest solar sail to date - NASA cancelled it after building half of it due to budget concerns. Solar Cruiser wsa design to fly to Sun Earth L1, and then ‘raise it’s orbit’ to image the sun’s poles, something that would take a surprising amount of fuel or very timely planetary flybyws. We talked to Zachary from Redwire, the private contractor working on the spacecraft who was showing off a piece of the carbon fiber booms they developed. Check out one of the nerdiest t-shirts imaginable! * Keats Wilkie of NASA presented on the ACS3 mission, which is currently flying. Launched last year, they’ve had on and off issues with contacting the spacecraft, power supply, and control, but they are working through them, and Keats’ inspiring keynote address showed us the tenacity of not giving up on a mission. * Solar sails have been proposed as a means of sending interstellar missions. A Cornell team shared their work to build a tiny sail which would be accelerated with a massive laser (instead of just sunlight) to reach 20% the speed of light, potentially reaching Alpha Centauri in 20 years. * Two different groups are proposing sailing races, inspired by competitions like the America’s Cup. Solar Sprint will invite university teams to race their sails to Mars! The Earth Cup aims to accelerate sunshade technology by organizing a race to Sun Earth Lagrange 1. * More down to earth, dragsails are a form of solar sail intended to slow down spacecraft. These are being built by Gama Space to help satellite operators de-orbit their missions at the end of life, preventing dangerous space junk. Andrew Nutter, CEO of Gama Space is a big fan of the sunshade. He and several of his talented team attended. ### Sunshade Focus The organizers, led by symposium chair Jeannette Heiligers, organized a special session on the planetary sunshade concept. We heard from Prof. **Herman Russchenberg** , Professor in Atmospheric Remote Sensing at TU Delft about the stark urgency of the climate crisis and the possibility for interventions to reflect sunlight. Prof.**Behnam Taebi,** Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics at Delft gave us an excellent framework to navigate the ethics involved in geoengineering. And Prof. **Mark Symes** of Glasgow, but also the Programme Director for the ARIA grant through which we are funded, shared their commitment to doing small scale experiments. Jeff Overbeek and Morgan Goodwin presented on the PSF's work for the ARIA grant. At the beginning of our talk, I asked the audience how many people had heard of the sunshade concept, and nearly all the hands went up. Then I asked how many had worked on the sunshade concept in some way, and a quarter of the hands went up again. Jan Thimo Grundmann (on behalf of Tharshan Maheswaran), Fabienne Seibert and marina coco presented papers on their work to better understand a sunshade's possible functioning and dual uses. Daria Miyeko Marinelli facilitated connections between researchers with unlikely overlaps, and organized relationships to sustain the work ahead. ### Advanced Concepts Our ARIA grant also includes a study on diffractive sunshades. This concept works with the properties of solar radiation pressure to propose a much lighter, albeit more exotic material, could offer more shade for less mass. Diffractive solar sails have been studied by many in the community although no concept has ever flown. Being able to speak with virtually all the world’s experts on the topic was exactly the sort of value that our project needs if we are to advance the world’s understanding of what might be possible. Dean and Jeff at the Poster Session At the poster sessions, Jeff and Dean Zweiman presented our new ideas about a heliogyro concept for 40km diameter reflectors. (Stay tuned for more on this!) The heliogyro, a spin-stabilized solar sail design, was proposed for a Halley's Comet rendezvous mission in the late 1970s, but difficulties in testing meant the concept has never flown. Jeff and Dean were able to discuss the heliogyro concept with a few of the only researchers in the world who have worked on this. ### Building Community To cap off the week, PSF hosted a happy hour and we are calling this the largest gathering of sunshade researchers ever assembled! Morgan Goodwin thanked the 37 attendees for their research (many of whom are already working directly on the sunshade concept) and encouraged everyone to further efforts in the face of the climate crisis. _We were lucky to find a bar with a very large sunshade under which to gather. This was particularly important beacause of the heatwave over much of Europe this summer, driving home the urgency._ We were impressed with the depth of commitment by this community. Their thinking generally sounds like “If we can get just a couple of these missions funded to really demonstrate what sails can do, solar sailing could transform space exploration and other missions like the sunshade.” These are not expensive missions as far as space flight goes, and we believe a small investment from those working to stop climate change could make the difference here.

The Planetary #Sunshade Foundation #PSF reports on the International Symposium on Space Sailing #ISSS2025 in Delft, The Netherlands:

www.planetarysunshade.org/media/international-sola...

I am honoured to be the 2025 Margaret Mead Memorial Award winner recognized by the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) at the University of Birmingham Leadership Institute, UK
#MargaretMeadAward #ISSS2025 #SystemsScience #Cybernetics

UofG team photo at ISSS2025

The 7th International Symposium on Space Sailing #ISSS2025 is in full swing at #TUDelft #Netherland and #UofG's #Space and Exploration Technology (SET) group is well represented!

https://www.tudelft.nl/lr/isss-2025

#space #engineering #conference #solarsailing

Sailing on Sunlight: The Promise of Solar Sails in Space Exploration Imagine a spacecraft that glides through space without fuel, propelled only by the pressure of sunlight. Solar sail propulsion, once the stuff of science fiction, is now a reality, offering a revolutionary way to explore the solar system and eventually, the cosmos. Scientist and author, Les Johnson, will uncover the fascinating physics behind solar sails and how they harness photons, the particles that make up sunlight, to push spacecraft across the void. Les will discuss recent space missions using solar sails, highlighting their groundbreaking achievements. Looking ahead, he will discuss upcoming projects and the possibility of interstellar travel powered by solar sails, envisioning humanity's journey beyond the solar system. Join us in discovering how these elegant, light-driven sails may one day help us reach the stars, unlocking a future of deep-space exploration once thought impossible.

As part of the #ISSS2025 conference, there will be a public lecture by Les Johnson of #NASA:

Sailing on Sunlight: The Promise of Solar Sails in Space Exploration

Tuesday 1 July 2025, 19:30-21:30, Delft University, The Netherlands

Free, but limited places […]

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