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...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
..., for Sydney, Australia and Antalya, Turkey. I think I’d better invest in a new suitcase! Asgardia’s head of national Dr Igor Ashurbeyli with space nation ministers, MPs and support staff at IAC 2023 in Baku. About the author Mark Williamson...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... of celestial navigation and astrodynamics. In an attempt to rectify the situation, and in collaboration with Asgardia the space nation, which was formed in 2016, I have developed an astrocentric, fixed-standard, 13-month reference calendar. This...
14 October 2016
Asgardia welcomes over 100,000 citizen applications in 48 hours and announces new million target
...’s announcement that Igor Ashurbeyli and a team of scientists from around the world will create the first Space Nation, 100,000 people immediately applied for citizenship of Asgardia, smashing its target within 48 hours. In response, Dr Ashurbeyli...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... platforms, data analytics tools and subscriptions via the Internet. Space nations 2015 was a record year for venture capital investment in space. Whether they are veterans in space activities (China or India) or newcomers deciding to have their own...
