Project Asgardia (UNESCO Science of Space committee proposal)

[Grey Havoc]

ORIGINAL CAPTION: An artist's impression of the cosmic shield which will protect Earth from asteroids Credit: James Vaughan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/12/scientists-propose-space-nation-named-asgardia-and-cosmic-shield/​

Shades of the fictional Earth II.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Shades of the fictional Earth II.

I was going to say it sounds more like Shmearth. Maybe Florida.

 

[Desert Dawn]

A noble project.

I'd like to see more about the shield system they are thinking about.

Website: http://www.picturetrail.com/stratospheremodels

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/space-nation-asgardia-wants-to-launch-its-first-datafilled-satellite-later-this-year/news-story/c6e3543bed842c1e85600c00af759d50

 

[Grey Havoc]

From 2018:

Asgardia: The problems in building a space society

This summer, citizens of the world’s first space nation gathered in Austria. But is the society they hope to build in orbit really a utopia?

www.bbc.com

 

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https://asgardia.space/en/congress/alc-2020/

 

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Asgardia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org