September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... pre-sold its nanosatellite communications bandwidth, having secured commercial contracts through its first wholesale operator, Sat-Space Africa and BeepTool. An initial agreement was also signed with Globalsat Group, which provides mobile...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. During the performance there were moments where the audience sat in a dark warehouse where fireworks and fuses crackled just metres away from their feet, or where they...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... standardised solution quickly becomes inapppropriate. Infinite Orbits is directly addressing that problem by designing affordable small-sats, each one of them specifically built for a targeted spacecraft. A number of different rendezvous and docking...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... (c1962) model of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) on display at a museum in Titusville, Florida. In this concept the astronauts sat in seats to fly the LEM and would climb down a rope to the lunar surface. The word Excursion...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... of outer space. Launch of an interceptor missile derived from the Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme in an Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test ‘Mission Shakti’ engaging an Indian orbiting target satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) in a ‘Hit...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... of Government, was convened by Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, the Asgardia Head of Nation. For the first time, Parliament sat in attendance, creating a precedent which is bound to be repeated in future. Dr Ashurbeyli’s facilitation of the event was itself...
