RESTON,
Va., July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) published the 2024
ASCEND Diverse Dozen (D12) Op-Eds – a collection of unique
perspectives on today's most pressing space sustainability
challenges. The 12 visionaries who comprise the D12 will present
their ideas on the opening day of 2024 ASCEND, 30 July – 1 August,
Las Vegas. Organized as rapid-fire
lightning talks, the D12 will address burning topics from the
challenges of balancing growth through responsible space
sustainability to orbital debris risking human space
exploration.
ASCEND is the world's premier outcomes-focused,
interdisciplinary space event designed to accelerate building our
off-world future. In its fifth year, D12 is produced in partnership
with astrodynamicist Moriba Jah, chief scientist and
co-founder of Privateer. More than 50 people have participated in
the D12 program since 2020. Read all their Op-Eds here.
This year, the D12 is supported by the Office of Space
Commerce, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce helping amplify
underrepresented voices as they promote messages on space
sustainability.
The 2024 ASCEND D12 cohort includes startup founders,
association leaders, aerospace and engineering scholars, and policy
experts in the space industry. They hail from Canada, Germany, New
Zealand, Nigeria,
North Macedonia, Pakistan, the United
States and its territory, Puerto
Rico.
The 2024 ASCEND Diverse Dozen are:
- Nifemi Awe, Management Consultant,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Priyanka Dhopade, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Auckland
- Martina Dimoska, Founder
and President, International Space Alliance
- Jose Figueroa, Founder,
Aqua/Sky Launch Innovations
- Amir Gohardani, CEO, Springs of Dreams Corporation
- Kim Macharia, Executive
Director, Space Prize Foundation
- Isabelle Mierau, Founder,
Space Debris DAO
- Sumbal Mushtaq, Founder,
Astralbeam Organization
- Alma Okpalefe, Executive Director, World Space Week
Association
- Carolyn Overmyer,
Director, Orion Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin Space
- Olga Stelmakh-Drescher,
Chief Policy, Legal & Government Relations Officer,
Exolaunch
- Salman Ali Thepdawala, Ph.D. Candidate and Munich
Aerospace Scholar, University of Bundesweehr – Munich
Registration for 2024 ASCEND is open. Press passes
are available.
Contact: Rebecca
Gray, RebeccaG@AIAA.org, 804-397-5270 cell
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