International Electric Propulsion Conference

The International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC) in its current form is a biennial academic conference in the field of electric space propulsion and hosted by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society (ERPS). It was originally organized by the American Rocket Society (ARS) and later by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as a US-American national conference and was expanded starting in 1976 to its current international character with the joining of international space engineering societies. Currently, few hundred engineers and scientists join the conference and present and discuss the latest developments and research results regarding electric propulsion.

List of electric propulsion conferences

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Electric Propulsion Conferences
# Start End Host location Venue Original name and comment
1 3 Nov 1960 4 Nov 1960   Monterey, CA ARS Electrostatic Propulsion Conference
2 14 Mar 1962 16 Mar 1962   Berkeley, CA ARS Electric Propulsion Conference
3 11 Mar 1963 13 Mar 1963   Colorado Springs, CO Broadmoor Hotel AIAA Electric Propulsion Conference
4 31 Aug 1964 2 Sep 1964   Philadelphia, PA AIAA Fourth Electric Propulsion Conference
5 7 Mar 1966 9 Mar 1966   San Diego, CA AIAA Fifth Electric Propulsion Conference
6 11 Sep 1967 13 Sep 1967   Colorado Springs, CO AIAA Electric Propulsion and Plasmadynamics Conference
7 3 Mar 1969 5 Mar 1969   Williamsburg, VA AIAA 7th Electric Propulsion Conference
8 31 Aug 1970 2 Sep 1970   Stanford, CA AIAA 8th Electric Propulsion Conference
9 17 Apr 1972 19 Apr 1972   Bethesda, MD AIAA 9th Electric Propulsion Conference
10 31 Oct 1973 2 Nov 1973   Lake Tahoe, NV AIAA 10th Electric Propulsion Conference
11 19 Mar 1975 21 Mar 1975   New Orleans, LA AIAA 11th Electric Propulsion Conference
12 14 Nov 1976 17 Nov 1976   Key Biscayne, FL AIAA International Electric Propulsion Conference
13 25 Apr 1978 27 Apr 1978   San Diego, CA AIAA/DGLR 13th International Electric Propulsion Conference
14 30 Oct 1979 1 Nov 1979   Princeton, NJ Princeton/AIAA/DGLR 14th International Electric Propulsion Conference
15 21 Apr 1981 23 Apr 1981   Las Vegas, NV AIAA/JSASS/DGLR 15th International Electric Propulsion Conference
16 17 Nov 1982 19 Nov 1982   New Orleans, LA AIAA/JSASS/DGLR 16th International Electric Propulsion Conference
17 28 May 1984 31 May 1984   Tokyo JSASS/AIAA/DGLR 17th International Electric Propulsion Conference
18 30 Sep 1985 2 Oct 1985   Alexandria, VA AIAA/DGLR/JSASS 18th International Electric Propulsion Conference
19 11 May 1987 13 May 1987   Colorado Springs, CO 19th AIAA/DGLR/JSASS International Electric Propulsion Conference
20 3 Oct 1988 6 Oct 1988   Garmisch-Partenkirchen 20th DGLR/AIAA/JSASS International Electric Propulsion Conference
21 18 Sep 1990 20 Sep 1990   Orlando, FL 21st AIAA/DGLR/JSASS International Electric Propulsion Conference
22 14 Oct 1991 17 Oct 1991   Viareggio 22nd AIDAA/AIAA/DGLR/JSASS International Electric Propulsion Conference
23 13 Sep 1993 16 Sep 1993   Seattle, WA 23rd AIAA/AIDAA/DGLR/JSASS International Electric Propulsion Conference
24 19 Sep 1995 23 Sep 1995   Moscow 24th International Electric Propulsion Conference
25 24 Aug 1997 28 Aug 1997   Cleveland, OH 25th International Electric Propulsion Conference
26 17 Oct 1999 21 Oct 1999   Kitakyushu 26th International Electric Propulsion Conference
27 15 Oct 2001 19 Oct 2001   Pasadena, CA 27th International Electric Propulsion Conference
28 17 Mar 2003 21 Mar 2003   Toulouse Pierre Baudis Congress Centre 28th International Electric Propulsion Conference
29 31 Oct 2005 4 Nov 2005   Princeton, NJ Princeton University 29th International Electric Propulsion Conference
30 17 Sep 2007 20 Sep 2007   Florence Villa Vittoria 30th International Electric Propulsion Conference
31 20 Sep 2009 24 Sep 2009   Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan 31st International Electric Propulsion Conference
32 11 Sep 2011 15 Sep 2011   Wiesbaden Kurhaus 32nd International Electric Propulsion Conference
33 7 Oct 2013 10 Oct 2013   Washington, DC George Washington University 33rd International Electric Propulsion Conference
34 7 Jul 2015 10 Jul 2015   Kobe Kobe International Conference Center 34th International Electric Propulsion Conference
35 8 Oct 2017 12 Oct 2017   Atlanta, GA Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference
36 15 Sep 2019 20 Sep 2019   Vienna Universität Wien 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference
37 2022   Cambridge, MA 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference
38 23 Jun 2024 28 Jun 2024   Toulouse IEPC 2024 38th International Electric Propulsion Conference
39 2025 London Imperial College London 39th International Electric Propulsion Conference
40 2027   Los Angeles 40th International Electric Propulsion Conference

Proceedings of the recent conferences are available on the website of the ERPS: IEPC archive.

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