Fake Banner
    ISEGC: dull acronym, neat concept
    By Project Calliope | September 27th 2011 10:23 PM | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
    More Articles
    All Articles
    About Project

    'Project Calliope' is a pico-satellite funded by Science 2.0 and being launched in 2011 by a mad scientist who is a space & music enthusiast...

    View Project's Profile
    14 space agencies walk into a bar... Okay, no joke.  The ISECG Initiative (I added 'Initiative' because it sounds more sci-fi) is an attempt to basically let individuals at different science institutes share information.  Given the strength of Intellipedia and perhaps even Wikipedia, it seems info sharing might be the way to go.

    The 14 agencies are:
    ASI (Italy), CNES (France), CNSA (China), CSA (Canada), CSIRO (Australia), DLR (Germany), ESA (European Space Agency), ISRO (India), JAXA (Japan), KARI (Republic of Korea), NASA (United States of America), NSAU (Ukraine), Roscosmos (Russia), UKSA (United Kingdom)
    I like info sharing, and I like their earlier work at producing mission timelines for long-term (25 years+) mission efforts like 'go to an asteroid' or 'get back to the effing moon.'  If you fold this into the 'space punk' efforts of folks like Interorbital or Copenhagen Suborbital, we may actually get somewhere.

    Alex
    ebook #1 on Project Calliope in editing for O'Reilly Media

    Add a comment

    The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
    • Allowed HTML tags: <sup> <sub> <a> <em> <strong> <center> <cite><TH><ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <br> <p> <blockquote> <strike> <object> <param> <embed> <del> <pre> <b> <i> <table> <tbody> <div> <tr> <td> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr> <iframe><u><font>
    • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
    CAPTCHA
    If you register, you will never be bothered to prove you are human again. And you get a real editor toolbar to use instead of this HTML thing that wards off spam bots.