“I want to have astronomy go viral in Pakistan” – Interview with Yumna Majeed
I really can't tell you when exactly it started. It's innate. Exploring what's outside our planet has been my curiosity, dream, ambition since childhood.
“SGAC has been crucial to paving the road for the new generation” – An interview with Victoria Alonsoperez
I completely loved my time at SGAC, I think that it was a great journey for me. I started as National Point of Contact (NPoC) of Uruguay, then I went to being Regional Coordinator for South America, later Chair and then an advisory role, so it’s been great. SGAC has been an organisation that opened so many doors. I remember the first time that I actually got to know SGAC: it was in 2009, when I got the IAF youth grant (now known as the Emerging Space Leaders Award) and I got to go to South Korea and, as part of the grant, the Space Generation Congress.
“Believe in what you are doing and keep trying” – An interview with Oscar Ojeda
"Things that are worth it, will not be easy, and to just keep trying.", says the Regional Coordinator of South America about the most important lesson that he has learned so far.
Long read: London calling, connecting worlds!
Views on the 4th European Space Generation Workshop. Ana and Eleonora have been respectively the co-event manager and the programme team member of the 4th European Space Generation Workshop (E-SGW), and the very first reason why they should thank SGAC for organising this kind of event is the community it is shaping. We already e-met a couple of times, but this was the very first time the two of them had the chance of working together and getting to know each other better.
“Pursue your dreams with earnestness, responsibility, and willpower” – An interview with Avid Roman-Gonzalez
Avid Roman-Gonzalez is an electronic engineer, he holds a PhD in Signal and Image Processing from TELECOM ParisTech in France, and he is the former SGAC Regional Coordinator of South America.
Development of the Malaysian Space Sector
The Malaysia Space Initiative (MiSI) welcomes the merger between two space-related entities in Malaysia, the National Space Agency (ANGKASA) and the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA), to form one combined space entity known as the Malaysia Space Agency (MYSA).
Acknowledging those who got us here: The Alumni Programme
Since SGAC’s founding in 1999, more than 15,000 individuals have registered on the SGAC website, many of them contributing to what SGAC has become today. Over time, many of those members aged out of the organization, owing to the 35 year age limit, creating a dilemma for SGAC: on one hand we want to include everyone and benefit from their expertise, but the SGAC bylaws at the time restricted us to those under the age of 35
Interview: the Executive Director and the #HQLife
She has been the executive director (ED) of the Space Generation Advisory Council for the past two and a half years. Time for a talk with Clémentine Decoopman about her journey, experiences and live at SGAC Headquarters.
The Andean Road countries for Science and Technology (ARCST)
Latin America has been characterized by its cuisine, music, brilliant athletes, sport man, their natural scenic spots, but few has been said about its Science and Technology. Even though ancient cultures such as Mayans, Tiwanaku and Incas have left their exquisite architecture full of symbolism, mathematical and astronomical sites, less has been showed to the world respect to the development of Science and Technology.
Advocating for Wildfire Monitoring in Canada
For the past several months our team at the University of Toronto Aerospace Team’s Space Policy Division has been advocating for the utilization of space technologies to enhance the information at the disposal of first responders and environmental researchers to monitor and manage wildfires in Canada.
