September 2024
Space nation issues declaration of independence
... Nation. The meeting of the heads of all branches of power, the Supreme Space Council of Asgardia, comprised Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, Head of Nation, Lembit Öpik, Chair of Parliament, Lena De Winne, Prime Minister, Yun Zhao, Supreme Justice of Asgardia...
April 2024
Space nation reveals global recognition ambition
... a new isolation laboratory to support flight simulations for people that will fly on future generations of human spacecraft. Dr Ashurbeyli also reminded journalists that Asgardia was about to celebrate its seven year anniversary and that he had...
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...
September 2026
Asgardia – from vision to action
... of Asgardia held its 15th meeting in Corfu, Greece, on 8-9 August 2026). Pictured (from left): Salvos Mouzakitis, Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu and Lembit Opik. The first decade of Asgardia was necessarily one of creation. Institutions...
