September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... all have equal opportunity to protect our common planet and equal opportunities to explore new worlds. Igor Ashurbeyli is a scientist and a visionary, holding a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. He founded Socium in 1988 - originally a small...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... the globe who logged into the live broadcast, Dr Ashurbeyli said the satellite is a first step to fulfilling his... space nation’s satellite to orbit in near record time.” Dr Ashurbeyli pictured with Ram Jakhu (left) and Jeffery Manber. After launch...
14 October 2016
Asgardia welcomes over 100,000 citizen applications in 48 hours and announces new million target
... will be made in due course, but meanwhile other new developments can be followed via its Twitterfeed: @AsgardiaSpace. Dr Ashurbeyli concludes,“one of the key motivations behind Asgardia has been to increase access to space for countries currently...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
...asteroids, solar flares, man-made space debris and other space hazards. These will be the precursor to Dr Ashurbeyli’s ultimate goal of creating permanent Asgardia settlements both in orbit and on the Moon. Asgardia’s approach is completely different...
25 June 2018
Head of first space nation says citizens will be in space within 25 years
... conventional smartphones. “Access to outer space should be a human right, beyond the control of any Earthly nation,” said Ashurbeyli and if Asgardia grows to incorporate 150 million citizens, it would make the space nation the twelfth largest...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
...year space programme to safeguard humanity’s future both on Earth and off world. For Asgardia’s founder, Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, a Russian scientist and businessman, humanity is to have a future even if there is a great cataclysm on the home world. “The...
