Игорь Ашурбейли выступил на пресс-конференции в Гонконге

Учитывая намерение в один прекрасный день оказаться в роли хозяйки колонии на Луне и космической станции, зарождающаяся космическая нация Асгардия начинает с малого: этой осенью запускает свой первый спутник, чтобы хранить данные только что избранных граждан страны. Около 200 000 человек были верифицированы из более чем 500 000 заявок.

13 июня во время пресс-конференции в Гонконге Игорь Ашурбейли, основатель Асгардии, представил подробную информацию о спутнике: «Асгардия-1» будет развёрнут на орбите с космического корабля Cygnus OA-8 компании Orbital ATK в сентябре.

Уважаемый Валерий Павлинович!

Многие годы нашего знакомства позволяют мне с уверенностью говорить о Вас как об опытном и ответственном руководителе, умелом хозяйственнике, мудром и энергичном человеке.

Почти 12 лет Вы возглавляете третий по значимости регион страны. И я искренне рад наблюдать, как благодаря Вашей заботе расцветает этот край.

Игорь Ашурбейли рассказал, что осенью 2017 года будет запущен первый спутник первого космического государства «Асгардия-1». Спутник станет краеугольным камнем присутствия Асгардии в космосе и будет хранить данные до полутора миллионов асгардианцев. Каждый из присоединившихся к новой нации получит возможность бесплатно загрузить на спутник до 300 кб своей информации.

With over 200,000 citizens around the globe and a pending request for national status with the UN, Asgardia aims to be Earth’s first extraterrestrial nation. Asgardia partnered with NanoRacks, a leading provider of commercial access to low-Earth orbit, to manufacture and oversee the satellite mission that will enable Asgardia to make its debut in space.

NanoRacks selected NSL to build the satellite because of previous mission success, integrity, and quick turnaround time.

Второй номер журнала «ВКС», вышедший из печати в 2017 году, посвящён перспективам изучения и освоения Луны и Марса.

Как долго нам ждать первого полёта к Марсу; нужно ли человеку лететь на планету с климатом, не пригодным для жизни; чем изучение Марса может быть полезно на Земле – своё мнение по этим вопросам высказывают учёные – участники проекта «ЭкзоМарс», а также космонавты и конструкторы. О том, какие шаги для освоения Красной планеты уже предпринимаются, читайте в материале «Этот враждебный Марс».

Named after a Norse mythological city of the skies, Asgardia is open to all residents on planet earth and it doesn't cost anything to join.

Russian scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli announced his plans to form the world's first independent nation that operates in outer space in October 2016. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up to be citizens.

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.