The Science, Technology, and Aeronautics Research Division (STAR) coordinates international activities in support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the Research and Technology Mission Directorate. STAR focuses primarily on cooperation in Earth science, solar system exploration, heliophysics, astrophysics, space technology and communications, aeronautics research, and biological and physical sciences. STAR also leads Agency-wide engagement with various world regions including Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The division develops and negotiates international agreements with many different countries and intergovernmental organizations by working with both NASA’s traditional partners in Europe, Asia, and Canada, as well as with emerging partners. The latter includes countries with developing space capabilities as well as with nations with less spacefaring experience that are beginning to engage in space activities both for scientific purposes and societal benefits.

NASA’s international scientific cooperation is broad and diverse and includes strategic partnerships on major space and Earth science missions, including airborne science missions, flights of foreign instruments on NASA spacecraft and NASA instruments on foreign spacecraft, exchanges of data from research conducted in space and on the ground, and coordination and interoperability of ground system assets.

For further information, please contact Tim Tawney, Acting Director of the Science, Technology, and Aeronautics Research Division..