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...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... vicinity and surface-near-term mission scenario of the Global Space Exploration Roadmap,” 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016. 6 G. Ishigami, A. Miwa y K. Yoshida, «Slope traversal controls for planetary exploration...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide in 2017, I described SAS as a “schizophrenic company” with a vision that at first glance...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... Foundation could increasingly - and more frankly - concern themselves with issues related to morality. The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) could invite philosophers to create a Space Ethics Committee. The list of potential initiatives...
