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NEWS AUGUST 2010 Rocket Economics, not Science Rocket science hasn’t gone very far, but rocket economics just made the leap. India needs to get into that game fast or risk losing a unique opportunity, by Susmita Mohanty - LIQUIFER Systems Group and Space Policy Fellow at Gateway House, JUL 16 201, Gateway House NEWS July 2010 Survey of the Chinese and Indian Telecom Space Industry and Market Article in "Bridges" by Norbert Frischauf and Rainer Horn China and India: New Superpowers in the Telecom Space Industry and Market? Press article: Susmita Mohanty: Living on a spaceship in Mumbai LIQUIFER Systems Group contribution @ the Space Architecture ALITER conference, Valencia 2010: Press review selection: La La arquitectura espacial, protagonista en la Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación Cientificos de la NASA participan este viernes en la ucv en un seminario sobre “arquitectura espacial y cosmovision D. Carlos Osoro inaugura mañana un seminario sobre “arquitectura espacial” con la participacion de expertos de la NASA more on ALITER - Diario Crítico - Levante-emv - Europa Press - Notas de prensa de la CV - Universia - Camineo - La información - Rojo y azul - Solo Arquitectura - Empresa exterior - Actualidad Universitaria - Arquitectura Urbana - BLOG: Orbita zero June 2010 Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger invited by GREEN/SPACE _sustainable architecture and design for the earth and beyond (Sheoreditch, London, 20. June 2010) APRIL 2010 Barbara Imhof invited by Alicia Framis to MOON Life, Amsterdam, NL - talks about "A Day Out Wth RAMA" (19.-21.April 2010) Moon-Life Handbook > MARCH 2010 "Ideen für die Unendlichkeit"(ideas for eternity), Norbert Philipp, Die Presse am Sonntag, 21. March, 2010, interview with Brent Sherwood and Barbara Imhof including quotes from Gregor Eichinger > download only German LIQUIFER @ ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IN VENICE 2010 Barbara Imhof and Susmita Mohanty are invited by Eric O. Moss to the Architecture Biennale in Venice in collaboration with Chalmers University Gothenburg, Sweden PROMOTING Out of This World: The New Field of Space Architecture A S. Howe Brent Sherwood Syd Mead Library of Flight Series Published by AIAA, © 2009, 421 pages, Hardback ISBN-10: 1-56347-982-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-56347-982-3 Susmita Mohanty and Barbara Imhof authors of chapter "Human-Space-Mission Simulators" (other authors: Fairburn, Ransom, Vogler) DECEMBER 2009 Architecture Beyond the Earth's Horizon Press review Im Wohnzimmer der Astronauten - In the living room of the astronauts Schöner wohnen im All - Living better in space Architecture Beyond the Earth's Horizon symposium and panel discussion Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium Symposium: Wednesday, December 2 2009, 18:00 Admission free! a cooperation by the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG) It is 40 years since man first stepped on the moon. These first footsteps on the Earth's satellite, followed in astonishment by humanity via television on 21 July 1969, still count today as an incomparable milestone despite being so recent. Following a loss of interest in this mission to the moon, a renewed interest in space travel is to be noted in the last ten years. New missions to the moon, to Mars and beyond are confronting architects and designers with tasks for which they have to depart from familiar operational territory. The subject being engaged with is: possibilities for the future of housing, living and working on Earth as well as in outer space. 6pm Dietmar Steiner, director of the Az W and Harald Posch, head of the Agentur für Luft- und Raumfahrt of the FFG: welcome address 6.15pm Barbara Imhof, space architect and Kurt Zweifel, curator: introduction 6.30pm brief talks (20 minutes each) Brent Sherwood, Manager of Strategic Planning & Project Formulation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Gregor Eichinger, Professor at the ETH Zürich, Chair for User Interface A member of the European ESA Astronautencorps (invited) Piero Messina, Head of the Coordination Office, Directorate of Human Spaceflight, ESA Tristan Weddigen, Professor at Zurich University, Art History Institute 8.30pm panel discussion moderated by Elke Krasny, culture theorist and curator OCTOBER 2009 Barbara Imhof contibutes to Blog: Out Of This World - The New Field of Space Architecture for The Space Show (USA) with Davd Livingston - October 26th, 2009 SEPTEMBER 2009 contribution "Human Space Mission Simulators" by LSG members Susmita Mohanty, Stephen Ransom and Barbara Imhof amongst Sue Fairburn and Andreas Vogler in the book Out of This World: The New Field of Space Architecture > more Written by the global network of practicing space architects, the book introduces a wealth of ideas and images explaining how humans live in space now, and how they may do so in the near and distant future. It describes the governing constraints of the hostile space environment, outlines key issues involved in designing orbital and planet-surface architecture, surveys the most advanced space architecture of today, and proposes far-ranging designs for an inspiring future. It also addresses earth-based space architecture: space analogue and mission support facilities, and terrestrial uses of space technology. >> RADIO interview JUNE 2009 RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications on Youtube featuring the music of Marcus Tatzer and René Waclavicek RAST conference - Kürsad Özdemir presents RAMA operations paper (Recent Advances in Space Technologies, RAST 2009 11-13 June 2009, Istanbul, TURKEY) JANUARY 2009 RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications on this site > DECEMBER 2008 12.12.2008 RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications at the exhibition Experimental Tendencies in Architecture. November 2008 START: Survey India /China - Sat/Nav/SatCom comissioned study by the European Space Agency SEPTEMBER 2008 RAMA - Rover for Advanced Mission Applications, Sardinia Art Fair - 4 - 10 September 2008, Castiadas Ausstellungsbeitrag von LIQUIFER Systems Group (Norbert Frischauf, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Waltraut Hoheneder, Barbara Imhof, Kürsad Özdemir, Stephen Ransom und René Waclavicek) Gordana Bezanov, for number5 GmbH (Zurich, Switzerland), presents the curatorial project entitled “I’m asking for the sky”, in collaboration with Martin Siegrist. JUNE 2008 Opening NEW PREMISES in MUMBAI! For contact information see > March 2008 Thales Alenia Space / ESA Contract "Development of the conceptual design of a Pressurised Rover as surface architecture element for Moon and Mars exploration" OCTOBER 2007 Austrian Building Award 2007 A winner in the category DIPLOMA - THESIS PROJECT is: Sandra Häuplik (LSG) for her project Moonwalker – First Lunar Base 23.10.2007 Space Night - living in outer space - the future of humankind (Leben im All - Zukunft der Menschheit) In the frame of the 20-year ESA membership Austria's the Austrian Ministry of Traffic, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency organise a public space night. The programme of this evening includes the presentation of the well-known TV documentary "Space Archiecture" by Ulrike Schmitzer and Matthias Widter (RAUM:FILM) in co-production with the ORF (including the Moonwalker project of Sandra Haeuplik, LSG). A panel discussion about "living in outer space - te future of humankind" will conclude this event. Ute Woltron will moderate the panel with ESA Astronaut Claude Nicollier, the space architects Barbara Imhof, LSG and Andreas Vogler and Rudolf Schmidt, the project leader of ESA's Mars and Venus Express mission. August 2007 Innovative Concepts for lunar bases Within the frame of the ESA study "European analysis for Surface Architecture" contract awarded by Thales Alenia Space JULY 2007 PEN MAGAZINE with New Attitude, JAPAN 8/1, 2007 No.205, p.78 Portrait LIQUIFER Systems Group INTO THE SPACE JUNE 2007 28.06.2007 - 20.00 - OKTO - Q202 Herbert Kogler, Mischa Reska, a portrait of LIQUIFER Systems Group and their work: about space architecture, configuration architetcure, system architecture and system integration TV-Broadcast Deutsche Welle "Spacearchitecture" Online - TV-Broadcast Portrait LIQUIFER Systems Group (in German) including an interview with cosmonaut Franz Viehböck APRIL 2007 Planetarium Vienna Lecture Series 50-Year-Spaceflight Aniversary (FFG) 350.000 metres above the surface - the International Space Station, Sunday, 22. April 2007, 11:00-12:30 Uhr, Lecture: Barbara Imhof, Liquifer Systems Group, Vienna March 2007 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) submits bid to the European Space Agency (ESA) for Analysis of Surface Architecture for European Space Exploration LIQUIFER co-founder Susmita Mohanty attends the International Program Committee meetings of the IAA and IAF in Paris; Mohanty to chair two sessions at the 2007 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) to be hosted in Hyderabad, India in September January 2007 LIQUIFER founders Barbara Imhof and Susmita Mohanty featured alongside Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American entrepreneur who became the first female private space tourist, in the prestigious Italian Design Magazine DOMUS. Article: "Space Tourism, Space Architecture" in DOMUS January 2007 issue no. 899 October 2006 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) successfully concludes a 12-month European Space Agency (ESA) contract for Phase-A Definition Study for a future European Facility for Integrated Planetary Exploration Simulation (FIPES) April 2006 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) co-founder Norbert Frischauf leads the Austromars Expedition as Commander of Crew 48 at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), in the Utah Desert, USA. Another LSG consultant Gernot Gröemer serves as the Health and Safety Officer for the mission. Deployable Structures for a Lunar Base - in cooperation with the University of Technology Vienna and the Centre of Biomimetics Reading in the frame of the study of LUNAR TECHNOLOGIES, comissioned by ESA to Alcatel Alenia Space

November 2005 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) awarded a new contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) for Phase-A Definition Study for Integrated Planetary Exploration Simulation (FIPES) April 2005 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) personnel, Sandra Häuplik and Kürsad Özdemir help organize the Moon-Mars Habitat Design Workshop at ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands. Experienced LSG experts, Barbara Imhof, Susmita Mohanty, and Stephen Ransom are invited for lectures at the Workshop TRANSCRIPTS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL JOURNEY Musings towards a new genre in [space] architecture GET A PROJECT-BOOK - ORDER
December 2003- February 2004 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) participated in a European Space Agency (ESA) led study team that developed the design concept for the future ExoMars Rover October 2003- March 2004 LIQUIFER Systems Group (LSG) Principal Barbara Imhof among invited European industry experts to consult to the Human Mission to Mars (HMM) Study for the ESA Aurora Programme. Study conducted at the ESA-ESTEC Concurrent Design Facility. Study outcome included detailed specifications, interior configuration plans for a Transfer Habitat Module (THM) and Surface Habitat on Mars (SHM). The outcome was published as ESA report CDF-TN-030-ESTEC-ESA