May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
...)? UNOOSA was constituted as a part of the UN in 1958, 14 years after the formation of ICAO. Its purpose was to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space, and in the utilisation of space science and technology for...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
...Astronaut Corp in 2000, participating in two missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 and 2013, accumulating 180...Karen Nyberg poses in front of a starry quilt at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, in 2014. Earth Views...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...’s Artemis Accords which has been signed by Argentina, Nicaragua and Pakistan, as well as Asia Pacific and Arab international organisations. The nations interested in long-term lunar exploration are rapidly sorting themselves into two politically...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... and research station will be the world’s first instrument to image the Milky Way Galaxy and to conduct international astrophysical observations and communications from the lunar surface.” While the words ‘Lunar Observatory’ and ‘astrophysical...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... new weather phenomenon were finally captured on camera by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his mission on the International Space Station in 2015. ASIM will therefore use a suite of instruments including light sensors and X- and gamma...
07 November 2018
China unveils its new space station 'Heavenly Palace'
... replica of its ‘Heavenly Palace,’ a 60-tonne orbiting space lab that is the nation’s answer to the International Space Station (ISS). The International Space Station – a collaboration between the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe and Japan – has...
