19 May 2021
Nigeria appoints new space agency head
... and boundaries. GRID-3 combines the expertise of partners in government, the United Nations, academia and the private sector to design adaptable and relevant geospatial solutions based on each country’s capacity and development needs. Through the...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... like the USA, Russia or China ever taking on this extraordinary venture alone. In more recent years the private sector has been putting forward new ideas. These include the daring Mars One pioneer settler one...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
..., France, at the end of 2015, an environmental summit which set clear targets and goals for public and private sector investment. And, as a flagship project, creating a ‘carbon free’ society across Europe by 2050, should also be the catalyst...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
...for humanity is too important an endeavour to be left only in the hands of governments. The wider stakeholder community (the private sector and civil society) needs to get more engaged on behalf of responsible policies that provide for space security...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... Ezzeddine is a senior executive with over 22 years of experience across many disciplines serving the government and private sectors. She has been working with Thuraya Telecommunications as Senior Director for Government Corporate Affairs since 2012...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... US, China and Russia. Players in the United States now include SpaceX and Blue Origin from the private sector as well as NASA. Some commentators see the changes in plans in Russia and in NASA over the past five...
