September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide in 2017, I described SAS as a “schizophrenic company” with a vision that at first glance...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... Foundation could increasingly - and more frankly - concern themselves with issues related to morality. The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) could invite philosophers to create a Space Ethics Committee. The list of potential initiatives...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...[Accessed 14 10 2018]. 7 J. Pearson, “Konstatin Tsiolkovski and the Origins of the Space Elevator,” in 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, 1997. 8 J. Pearson, “The orbital tower: a spacecraft launcher using the Earth’s rotational...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... Musk put it in his 2016 talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico: “I really think there are ... appeared in Space.com, LiveScience, Futurity, the International Business Times, Popular Science, Caltech’s E&S magazine,...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... jointly published a simple scale to evaluate the significance of the announcement in question. As it was presented at the International Astronautical Congress of 2000 in Rio de Janeiro, we proposed to call it the ‘Rio Scale’. Its purpose was simply...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
...Government from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Clay is also the Vice President of Finance for the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the founder and Chairman of the Future Space Leaders Foundation, a non-profit organisation...
