April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
.... “We’re building a truly open spaceport,” Carvalho enthused during an interview on a noisy Portugal Space stand at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, Italy, in October. “Our recent suborbital launches from the Azores are more...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... needed to allow this. Collaborations and data sharing The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the International Astronautical Federation, and the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), among other organisations, encourage data sharing and...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... papers. Iran has put on many displays of its space programme - obligingly for us in English - and attended the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town, when welcomed by fellow BRICS member South Africa in 2011. The best commentaries...
24 August 2016
Elon Musk To Be Special Keynote Speaker at IAC 2016
... of a number of other companies. The International Astronautical Congress is an annual event held by the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics and International Institute of Space Law. Registration for this...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... obstacles are going to prove much more challenging and difficult than technical issues. During last October’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Jerusalem, ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Worner was quoted as saying he wants China...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy cube satellites from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS). With JAXA, we recently selected the first successful candidates for this programme - a team...
