February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...[Accessed 14 10 2018]. 7 J. Pearson, “Konstatin Tsiolkovski and the Origins of the Space Elevator,” in 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997. 8 J. Pearson, “The orbital tower: a spacecraft launcher using the Earth’s rotational...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... Musk put it in his 2016 talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico: “I really think there are ... appeared in Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech’s E&S magazine,...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... jointly published a simple scale to evaluate the significance of the announcement in question. As it was presented at the International Astronautical Congress of 2000 in Rio de Janeiro, we proposed to call it the ‘Rio Scale’. Its purpose was simply...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... interest in the long-term sustainability of spaceflight On 21 October 2019, the opening day of the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC, ConsenSys Space released a prototype of TruSat, an experimental open source, open-sensor...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
...In practical terms, this meant that Rogozin could not attend the Heads of Space Agencies plenary at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, in October 2018. Moreover, visa denials to Russian speakers at events in Europe and...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... from Microgravity Simulations and Earth Gravity” IAC-19-A2,4,11,x49538. Results were also discussed at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) at Washington, DC, USA, in October 2019. About the authors Funmilola Oluwafemi is a space bio...
