SGAC is proud to announce the winners of the South American Space Leader Award 2019 who will be sponsored to attend the 5th SA-SGW 2019 event to be held in La Paz, Bolivia.
SGAC is pleased to announce Alexander Gilbert (USA) as the winner of the SSS Essay Competition 2019. Organized with the support of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the SGAC Space Safety and Sustainability (SSS) Project Group invited participants aged 18 to 35 from around the world to take part in this essay competition. The competition provided entrants with the opportunity to introduce new ideas on the topic of how humankind could expand into outer space and most importantly, in a safe and sustainable way.
SGAC is pleased to announce Jamil Castillo as the winner of the SGAC-EMER-GEN/AMOS 2019 Competition. The scholarship enables one outstanding SGAC member to attend the AMOS conference and the EMER-GEN programme for young professionals in Hawaii, September 15-20 2019.
SGAC is pleased to announce Alec Meade and Brittany Carr as the winners of the NASA ScaN scholarship 2019. The scholarship enables one outstanding SGAC member to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress to be held from the 17th-19th October 2019 in Washington D.C., United States.
SGAC held elections in May to elect the next Regional Coordinator (RC) in the African Region. We are happy to announce the selection of Rania Toukebri (Tunisia) as the new Regional Coordinator for Africa.
In May 2018, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced a call for projects, open to all countries of the United Nations, to be flown aboard the Chinese Space Station in 2022. In total, 42 projects were presented from 27 different countries. From that, 17 were shortlisted at the beginning of 2019 and finally, last Wednesday during the general session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, a list of the final 9 selected projects was disclosed; one of these selected projects was presented by six SGAC members from Peru, Colombia and Spain, in the Peruvian and the Spanish chapters of The Mars Society.
SGAC held elections in May to elect the next Regional Coordinator (RC) in the South American Region. We are happy to announce the selection of Santiago Enríquez (Argentina) as the new Regional Coordinator for South America.
SGAC held elections in May to elect the next Regional Coordinator (RC) in the European Region. We are happy to announce the selection of Eleonora Lombardi (Italy) as the new Regional Coordinator for Europe.
The Space Generation Congress (SGC) is SGAC’s annual meeting in support of the United Nations (UN) Programme on Space Applications. Top university students and young professionals with a passion for space will travel from all around the globe to attend three days of the 18th SGC. Up to 150 delegates will enjoy an inspiring and resourceful engagement with their peers at the congress, held in Washington, D.C., on 17 – 19 October, 2019 prior to the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
