January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... the increase and the industry is benefiting as a result. In an article based on his presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC), Mark Boggett explains why this transition from government to private funding is underway and...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
...the ‘Artificial Gravity’ segment of October’s Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... pinned heroism medals onto cosmonauts and visited design bureaux and factories, which he still tours. A big space science mission planned in the 1980s, the Spektr R telescope, finally flew in 2011 and made a major contribution to astronomy...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... unlimited access to and free exploration and use of space for new space actors while at the same time maintaining the long-term sustainability of space activities? Since space science and technology are undergoing constant innovation, the governing...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...human has set foot on any celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it comes to hands-on experience in exploring another world, humanity is only now about...
