International Academy of Astronautics — Institute of Space Science

AI-Powered Knowledge for
Space Research

IAA-RAG brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to the astronautics community — instant answers, deep research and automated reports from the entire IAA document corpus. Powered by Google Gemini 2.0.

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AI at the Service of the Astronautics Community

IAA-RAG redefines how researchers interact with scientific knowledge — complemented by Indico for seamless event and conference management.

AI Research Assistant FEATURED

Ask any question — IAA-RAG retrieves precise answers with citations from thousands of IAA documents, papers and video transcripts in seconds.

Conference Management

Indico powers IAA event registration, programs, materials and archives — the trusted platform used by CERN and top research institutions worldwide.

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Secure Access

Institutional authentication, document and data access control, compliance with international security standards.

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Global Integration

Connected to the international IAA network, synchronized with iaaspace.org and providing access to global publications and resources.

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Documents & Publications

Repository of IAA session papers, presentations and reports, indexed and searchable through the AI engine.

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Cloud Scalability

Containerized, redundant infrastructure capable of supporting large volumes of users and documents simultaneously.

70+
Years of IAA Romania activity
6k+
Members in 100+ countries
AI-indexed documents
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Platform availability

The Most Advanced AI Research Platform
Built for Space Science

A state-of-the-art Retrieval-Augmented Generation system engineered from the ground up at the Institute of Space Science — combining cutting-edge AI models, hybrid search, knowledge graphs and real-time document intelligence.

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✦ IAA-RAG v2 — Gemini 2.0 Flash · Knowledge Graph · Hybrid Search
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What are the IAA recommendations on deorbiting LEO satellites, and are there contradictions between recent position papers?
Based on 35 retrieved chunks across 8 documents, IAA recommends deorbit within 25 years post-mission. A cross-document analysis reveals a partial contradiction between the 2019 and 2023 position papers regarding passivation requirements for GEO transfer orbits...
[1] IAA Position Paper, 2023, p.14 [2] IADC Guidelines Rev.2, p.7 [3] IAA Cosmic Study, 2019, p.31
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Generate a comprehensive report on this topic.
🧠 Deep Research mode activated — decomposing into 6 sub-questions, querying Knowledge Graph + Vector DB... Report generated with executive summary, 4 sections and 23 citations.
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Gemini 2.0 Flash

Google's latest LLM for generation, vision analysis and cross-document reasoning. LaTeX, images and academic citations fully supported.

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Hybrid Search Engine

Semantic vector search (768-dim embeddings via gemini-embedding-001) combined with BM25 lexical search and re-ranking for top-35 precision retrieval.

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Knowledge Graph (Neo4j)

3,300+ entities and 1,600+ relations extracted from documents. Powers contradiction detection, cross-document analysis and agentic reasoning.

Real-Time Streaming

FastAPI streaming responses with Server-Sent Events. Answers appear token-by-token, no waiting. Parallel worker processing via Redis queues.

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Multi-Format Ingestion

PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images (AI vision analysis), YouTube transcripts, web scraping — all automatically chunked, embedded and indexed.

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Agentic Deep Research

Multi-step reasoning engine that decomposes complex questions into sub-queries, researches each independently, then synthesizes a comprehensive answer.

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Auto Report Generation

One click generates a full academic report — executive summary, structured sections, citations — exported as HTML ready for publication.

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Production Infrastructure

Fully containerized: FastAPI · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Qdrant · Neo4j · Redis · MinIO · Nginx · Prometheus/Grafana monitoring. 4 parallel worker replicas.

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Academic Citation System

Every answer includes clickable inline citations [1] linked to the exact page or timestamp in the source document. Authors, journal, year and page number — automatically extracted. Click a citation to jump directly to the source.

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YouTube & Multimedia Intelligence

Ingest any YouTube video — transcripts are automatically extracted, chunked and indexed. Citations link to the exact timestamp in the video. Images in documents are analyzed with AI vision and included in search.

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Contradiction Detection

The Knowledge Graph engine identifies when documents contradict each other on the same topic. Unique capability for research quality assurance — compare positions across years and authors automatically.

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n8n Webhook Integration

Full automation API: trigger document ingestion, query the RAG engine or generate reports from any external system via webhooks. Integrates with n8n, Zapier, Make and custom pipelines out of the box.

IAA-RAG Login Screen
Login screen — IAA institutional authentication
IAA-RAG Chat Interface
Chat interface — AI-generated questions from indexed documents
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📅 IAA Events — 2025
IAA Space Debris Conference 2025
📍 Bucharest · 15–17 Oct 2025 · 142 participants
Workshop: AI in Space Missions
📍 Online · 8 Nov 2025 · 89 registered
IAA Session — Propulsion Systems
📍 Cluj-Napoca · 3 Dec 2025 · 67 participants
IAA Romania Annual Conference
📍 Bucharest · 20–22 Jan 2026 · Registration open
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IAA Conference & Event Management

Indico — developed by CERN and adopted by top research institutions worldwide — manages registrations, programs, materials and video recordings for all IAA Romania events. All conference documents are automatically ingested into IAA-RAG for AI-powered search.

  • Online registration and participant management for conferences and workshops
  • Automatic publication of presentations, posters and session materials
  • Integrated abstract submission and peer review system
  • Full IAA event calendar with domain filtering
  • Digital archive of historical IAA conferences
  • Seamless pipeline: conference materials → IAA-RAG knowledge base
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