May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
Australia formally announced its intention to establish an Australian Space Agency at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide in 2017 and less than a year later, in July 2018, the agency opened its doors ...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... 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 provides...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play in this research...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
...-ups and academia. The main sources for technology information are professional and scientific literature, congress proceedings and patents of invention. A patent of invention is a legal mechanism of protection that grants exclusive rights to the...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
..., Tigran Mkhoyan elaborates on his presentation in 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...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... 2019, students and young professionals from around the world gathered in Washington DC, for the Space Generation Congress, to discuss the future of space in both the scientific and commercial realms. Conversations throughout that meeting resulted...
