April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... in-orbit experiments, delivering benefits for synergies between the payloads to create a collaborative platform for the multi-national experimental team. Even small space nations can take a leading role in niche areas in which they have a particular...
15 February 2022
A new legal system for space
..., also too on the role of Minister of Justice for Asgardia the Space Nation in 2021. “I became increasingly intrigued by the notion of an extraterritorial jurisdiction, a nation built outside of the classical border, boundary and barrier model, and...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... universe after a 'cold spot' anomaly was found in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. The Asgardia space nation has its first ‘territory’ in orbit around Earth following the launch of its Asgardia-1 satellite in November and...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
.... We believe that our partnership with SNC on the United Nations Dream Chaser mission will achieve these goals. Furthermore, by giving emerging space nations cost-effective access to space and the opportunity to conduct research that cannot be done...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... identified above. Its most vital role would then to be to energise the hundreds of thousands of ‘citizens’ of the Asgardia space nation to make sure that funding necessary to protect Earth and humanity from very real cosmic hazards is provided...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... it forms the basis for exploration of outer space by nations. In contrast, the Moon Treaty of 1979 had only seven ratifications and no major space faring power ratified it. It is generally felt that space faring nations did not want to sign the Moon...