Every spring for the last three years, Russia’s leading space experts have met for the InSpace Forum in Moscow to discuss how to boost the country’s space industry by facilitating cooperation between the state space corporation Roscosmos and the...
Приглашаем вас 21 декабря на ежегодный Клуб друзей Кластера в Сколково! Мы кратко подведем итоги года, расскажем о состоянии и перспективах развития Сколковской экосистемы как в части Фонда, так и Сколтеха. Ключевая тема встречи этого года – развитие...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
The Skolkovo innovation city is gearing up to host the biggest Open Innovations forum that Russia has yet seen on October 16-18, featuring tech stars, government representatives, entrepreneurs, businesspeople and futurologists from around the world. International...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
The movers and shakers of Russia's space industry gathered on March 3 for the annual In Space forum. Discussions included cooperation mechanisms between the state space corporation Roscosmos and Russia's growing wave of private space companies, many...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
A new English-language journal titled REACH – Reviews in Human Space Exploration was launched at the end of last month with Rupert Gerzer, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , as its editor-in-chief. Professor Rupert...
Valery Komissarov, a VC at the Skolkovo Foundation, shares his thoughts on the latest trends in the space industry and the most up-and-coming space startups around the world with VentureBeat . Photo: Pexels.com. I’m a VC at Russia’s...
Finding new ways of commercially exploiting satellites already in orbit, while creating economic value in the process: this is the goal of the research being carried out by Alessandro Golkar, Interim Director of the Space Center and Associate Professor at the...
This week, NASA’s space probe Juno entered Jupiter’s orbit after a journey lasting nearly five years, and like astronautics experts and enthusiasts around the globe, Skolkovo’s space cluster was watching with bated breath. An artist's...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
The ears of U.S. space entrepreneur Elon Musk should by all rights have been burning furiously on Thursday, when he became one of the most discussed topics at the InSpace forum and conference in Moscow. At the opening discussion, devoted to the relationship...
Инноград Сколково мог бы стать пилотной зоной для испытания беспилотников и в этом смысле – прообразом города будущего. Фонд «Сколково» предлагает нефтяной индустрии концепцию создания испытательных полигонов для инновационных технологий в...
В Москве на ВДНХ завершил свою работу четвертый форум «Открытые инновации». Столичный мэр Сергей Собянин на правах хозяина предложил сделать ВДНХ постоянной площадкой для проведения «Открытых инноваций». Градоначальник отметил...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...