While it plans to someday host a moon colony and space station, the proposed space-based nation Asgardia is starting small: The project will launch its first satellite this fall to store data forthe nation's newly selected citizens. Some 200,000 were chosen from the more than 500,000 applicants.
During a press conference in Hong Kong on June 13, Asgardia's founder, Igor Ashurbeyli, revealed concrete details about the satellite: Asgardia-1 will be deployed from Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-8 resupply spacecraft launching in September.
Since announcingAsgardialast October, however, Ashurbeyli has barely provided any glimpse into what the heck this is actually supposed to look like. So it was a pleasant surprise to see Ashurbeyli announce Tuesday that Asgardia was opening up citizenship enrollment starting immediately, and making plans for its first satellite launch later this year.
That launch will fire up a small hard drive into orbit, which will contain the first 100,000 citizens’ personaldata.
Since the call for would-be citizens was first put out in October, some 500,000 registrations were apparently received. As you'd expect from the kind of internet democracy responsible forBoaty McBoatface, the project was flooded with applications from bots and jokesters, and registrations were shut down and reopened with stricter protocols. Asgardia now boasts some 200,000 "serious" applicants, but it doesn't exactly bode well for a project where literally everything can go wrong.
After the creation of Asgardia was announced in Paris last October, more than 500,000 applications were received within the first 20 days, the team behind the project has revealed.
The numbers were so high it forced a change of the rules for those hoping to become part of the visionary plan to establish a new space nation with its own constitution and laws.
Asgardia switched to a stricter system that filtered out children registering without their parents’ permission, duplicate applications, people who refused to provide required information, and non-human internet “bots”.
But let's take a step back. What the hell is Asgardia? The nation, if you want to call it that, was officially announced on October 12th, 2016 -- or October 5th if you're an Asgardian. The nation has its own calendar with 13 months (the additional month is named Asgard) that are 28 days each, which actually makes much more sense than our own calendar.
Ever wanted to jack all this Earth nonsense in and live in space instead? You're not alone. Over the last year or so, about 200,000 people have registered to become citizens of Asgardia, a self-proclaimed 'space nation'.
The scheme is the brainchild ofIgor Ashurbeyli, a Russian businessman and scientist who seems to have both money and time on his hands.
Asgardiaannounced itself last yearas a space-based nation, independent of countries on Earth, and has since convinced 180,000 people to become citizens by filling out an online form. Now it is planning its
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.As the nation’s inaugural spacecraft, it will house their “constitution, flag and other symbols of nationhood and will contain data stored for free by up to 1.5 million Asgardians.”The Asgardia-1 satellite will be built by theNearSpace Launch Inc.and launched by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It will be placed 450-500 Kilometers above Earth.
The Asgardia-1 will launch this fall and will “mark the start of a New Space Age, sixty years after the first ever artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 orbited the earth.” Led byDr Igor Ashurbeyli, who is touted by the group as one of the world’s most distinguished rocket scientists, Asgardia hopes to advance the democratization of space.
Asgardia, the self-styled "first nation in space"that so far exists more online and in the minds of its creators than in any physical place, may soon have its first bit of actual territory.
On Tuesday, Asgardia's leader and current one-man government, the Russian nanoscientist Igor Ashurbeyli, announced plans to launch the small satellite Asgardia-1 later this year. The satellite and the information it carries -- including Asgardia's constitution and flag and data stored for free by up to 1.5 million "Asgardians" -- will comprise the totality of the nation.
This is, essentially, a legal, technological and philosophical experiment that declares an orbiting server to be a sovereign country.
"Asgardia-1 will mark the beginning of a new space era, taking our citizens into space in virtual form, at first," Ashurbeyli said in a statement.
У приятных событий серьёзная экономическая база. «Социум» наращивает показатели по многим направлениям. Увеличивается штат предприятий, повышается квалификация сотрудников, прибавка зарплаты опережает инфляцию.
Как отметилРуслан Ашурбейли, генеральный директор «СОЦИУМ-А», управляющей компании холдинга: «Укрепляются связи как с внешними партнёрами, так и внутри коллектива.
В торжественном заседании принял участие Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл, возглавляющий Комитет почётных членов Императорского Православного Палестинского Общества.
В президиуме заседания также присутствовали: Патриарший наместник Московской епархиимитрополит Крутицкий и Коломенский Ювеналий, министр культуры Российской ФедерацииВ. Р.Мединский,Председатель Императорского Православного Палестинского Общества С.
Сергиевское подворье – один изсамых ценных объектов российской собственности наСвятой Земле. Двухэтажная каменная постройка свнутренним двором ибашней пососедству сРусской духовной миссией иТроицким собором была возведена вконце XIX века ииспользовалась дляприёма паломников, втом числе членов императорской семьи. После революции она оказалась надесятилетия утрачена Россией ивозвращена ей Израилем только в2008 году.
Эту святыню он привёз из Ватикана специально к юбилейной дате Общества, созданного 3 июня 1882 года Указом Александра III, в день памяти святых равноапостольных Елены и Константина.
Святая равноапостольная царица Елена(около 250–330 гг.) – мать римскогоимператора Константина Великого.Елена воспитала сына в христианстве и много способствовала тому, чтобы впоследствии Константин сделал христианство государственной религией Римской империи. Царица Елена многое сделала и для распространения христианства в других странах.
Эту святыню он привёз из Ватикана специально к юбилейной дате Общества, созданного 3 июня 1882 года Указом Александра III, в день памяти святых равноапостольных Елены и Константина.
Святая равноапостольная царица Елена (около 250–330 гг.) – мать римского императора Константина Великого. Елена воспитала сына в христианстве и много способствовала тому, чтобы впоследствии Константин сделал христианство государственной религией Римской империи.
В ходе акции «Бессмертный полк» люди вспоминают родственников, погибших на фронтах войны, и ветеранов, доживших до наших дней. Практически в каждой российской семье есть те, кого вспоминают в этот день и кем гордятся всю жизнь.
Не исключение и семья Ашурбейли; во время той войны – Великой Отечественной – погибли три деда Игоря Ашурбейли.