September 2023
Address from the Head of Nation
On 24 June 2023 (7 Leo 0007 in the Asgardia calendar) Dr Igor Ashurbeyli welcomed newly elected Members of Parliament at the first digital sitting of ...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... we use, particularly the areas around Earth, are actually quite constrained and fragile. Low Earth orbits (LEO), where we find Earth observation satellites and the new broadband range of satellites, is quite a small shell of geo...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... transport aircraft, a tried and tested system capable of launching payloads up to 1000 kg to a variety of low Earth orbit (LEO) inclinations, as an ‘air-launch’ platform. With more than 270 aircraft in service globally, the C-17 is flown by the...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
Over 250 astronomers attending a virtual workshop on the impact of satellite mega constellations have warned that the 100, 000 or more low-Earth satellites expected to be deployed in mega constellations by companies and governments alike will will “...
09 September 2020
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth, deploys unknown object before deorbiting
... Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in low-Earth orbit (LEO), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was launched last week on a Long March...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
...clusters, 85 percent of the interactions exceed hypervelocity speeds. The typical observation that the average encounter speeds in LEO are 10 km/s is somewhat misleading since for these clusters the median is around 12 km/s and the mode is well above...
