August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for cutting-edge research. In future, it will be ...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
... the destination that Asgardia was set up to deliver - the permanent habitation of space. My immediate ‘external’ next step as Chair of Parliament is to build more links with other parliaments, and reach out on behalf of Asgardia to make the right...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... tirelessly to promote the cause of astronautics in his roles as President of the French national space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Earlier...
19 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... March 19 on Twitter that he hopes “bipartisan support for basic research will again prevail.” Spergel is the science co-chair for NASA’s planned Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST (pictured on this page), which the agency...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...University and as a consultant for NewSpace companies before returning to my home country Slovakia. There I was eventually elected chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), which designed and constructed the first Slovak satellite...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... to the Australian Defence Space Coordinating Office and chaired inter-departmental and international working groups in respect...’s space science and industry sector (21 November 2008) (Chair: Annette Hurley). 4 Edited Advancing Australia in Space, ...
