September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
...exploration of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids. They were announced on 13 October 2020 during the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Dubai. The initial eight countries (Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... obstacles are going to prove much more challenging and difficult than technical issues. During last October’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Jerusalem, ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Worner was quoted as saying he wants China...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... F Di Pentino, “New Insights on the Orbital Debris Collision Hazard at GEO,” (Address to the IAC-11-A6.2.6, 62nd International Astronautical Congress, Capetown, South Africa, October 2011). 8 ibid. 9 See online: SpaceTrack.org
24 August 2016
Elon Musk To Be Special Keynote Speaker at IAC 2016
... of a number of other companies. The International Astronautical Congress is an annual event held by the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics and International Institute of Space Law. Registration for this...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy cube satellites from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS). With JAXA, we recently selected the first successful candidates for this programme - a team...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... vicinity and surface-near-term mission scenario of the Global Space Exploration Roadmap,” 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016. 6 G. Ishigami, A. Miwa y K. Yoshida, «Slope traversal controls for planetary exploration...
