December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... page 51). The development of this system was the focus of the first Asgardian economic forum held in Nice, France, from 26-28 October 2018. Ashurbeyli wants Asgardia’s economy to differ from those of terrestrial states. “All Asgardian nationals...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... engineer at Innovative Solutions In Space (ISIS) in The Netherlands. He has an MSc in aerospace engineering from the ESTACA, Paris, France, and leads the technical development of space systems with CubeSats for diverse applications at ISIS. His main...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... of chemically active flame. Each launch of a heavy carrier rocket punches a hole in the ozone layer the size of France. Some 40 years ago it was estimated that the US Space Shuttle would remove between 10 and 40 million tonnes...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... Protection, and is at the Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, France. Gerhard Kminek is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection, and is at the...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...in numerous technology development efforts. For example, the ILOA has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), a Multinational MoU with Southeast Asia Principal Operating Partners in four countries to date...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... cooperative activities with foreign organisations in the space sector. These countries include: United States, Russia, France, Italy, Ukraine, Argentina, Paraguay and many others. Mexico is an important actor in United Nations space activities...
