August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Museum of Interstellar Art. In his spare time, Wael volunteers as Outreach Coordinator with the Planetary Society, promoting space science and STEM education in Europe and the Middle East. He also enjoys photography, reading and ambient pop music.
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... of space” and he had it right. Sunlight-propelled light sails were demonstrated by the Planetary Society in 2015 with the Lightsail-1 spacecraft and by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) with its IKAROS probe, launched in 2010. Unfortunately, sunlight...
20 November 2015
2015 World Technology Summit held In New York City
... - Staff Scientist, NASA Cleo Loi - Partner, University of Sydney / Murchison Widefield Array Bill Nye - CEO, The Planetary Society Rick Tumlinson - Co-founder, Deep Space Industries Bob Twiggs - Professor of Astronautical Engineering, Morehead State...
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
... that, one day, mankind will explore the solar system and ‘venture forth towards the stars’. By contrast, Louis Friedman, former NASA engineer and co-founder of The Planetary Society, believes that “humans will become a multi-planet species by making...
03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
... is a technical ideal that agencies and organisations are now exploring as a viable means of transportation. Last year, the Planetary Society successfully deployed its own LightSail 2; a craft with a huge 32 square metres (344 square foot) sail that...
25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
... that are doing amazing missions," said Milo co-founder and president of The Planetary Society Jim Bell, a member of the ASU faculty. "But it's also true that of the, say, 10 proposals that get submitted to those agencies when opportunities arise...
