MVA Newsletter - May 2024

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International Moon Day 2024

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IMD 2024 Global Events - Second Call for Organisers

The Second Call for proposals for organising an IMD 2024 Global Event is now open. Join us for celebrating this monumental day, organise an event in your country!

8th Global Moon Village Workshop & Synposium

The 8th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium is going to Luxembourg this year as part of the Luxembourg Space Agency 's Luxembourg Space Week!

Join us on December 2-4 at the European Convention Centre Luxembourg (ECCL)

More info coming soon!

3rd PromoMoon Intiative Top 7 winners announcement

We are happy to announce that the first stage of evaluation of the 3rd PromoMoon Initiative’s applications is complete.

Top-7 projects with novel ideas relating to lunar technologies have been selected.

See the Top-7 winning projects here .

MVA Welcomes a new Education & Outreach Coordinator

MVA Board is happy to welcome Prof. Alessandro Bartoloni as the new Education & Outreach Coordinator

Alessandro Bartoloni, after earning his MSc in electronics engineering, joined the Roma Sapienza Division of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics in 1992, working on developing supercomputers for theoretical physics numerical simulations. Later, he joined CERN as a user associate where he took part in constructing the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This experiment observed in 2012 a new particle consistent with the predicted Higgs boson. For several years, he was a lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome, responsible for courses on a computer science subject. Since 2000, he has been in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer collaboration (AMS). He is the author of more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His current principal research fields of interest are Cosmic Rays Physics, Space Radiation Science, and Space Radiobiology. He joined the Moon Village Association in 2022 and was appointed in 2023 as National Coordinator for Italy.

MVA Paricipation at 63rd Session of COPUOS Legal Subcommittee

MVA partcipated in this years COPUOS Legal Subcommittee (15-26 April 2024).

MVA President, Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi addressing the launch of Chinese Shenzou-18 at CGTN Europe.

Cultural Considerations WG webinar – Still as bright

May 14 2024, 17:30 CEST

“Still as Bright blends scientific, cultural and personal strands in an exploration of the Moon and its place in our lives and in mine. I come to know the Moon through my backyard telescope, traversing its wild and sublime surface while contemplating place, time, childhood, mortality—and the future of humans on the Moon. You’ll meet forgotten selenographers, astronauts, scientists, artists and lunar bat-men (hint: they’re not real). You’ll witness a rocket launch, my failed attempt at an occult lunar ritual (a bit icky) and join me at the eyepiece of the 60-inch reflector at Mt. Wilson, California (like orbiting in a capsule).” -Christopher Cokinos

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Who leads the way in the new era of space? The new actors of international space law

15 & 16 May 2024, Luxembourg Centre for European Law

This conference is organised by the Luxembourg Centre for European Law in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, UNIVERSEH, and SES.

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MVA Lunar Commerce & Economics WG

The Lunar Commerce and Economics Working Group (LCE WG) is looking for new market research leads!

The “Lunar Commerce and Economics” Working Group (LCE WG) provides a forum for promoting an international and interdisciplinary discussion of all potential markets for goods and services that will form an essential part of the Moon Village operations. It provides a focus for businesses who are considering supporting lunar activities, and for government planners who seek to understand the timeframe of, and degree to which, commercial business will be able to contribute to the endeavor of developing the Moon.?

The LCE WG has developed a Lunar Commerce Portfolio (LCP) which is a valuable source of lunar commercial market opportunities data. Market definitions and volumes are evaluated based on several stages of development of lunar activities over time, on which are applied various scenarios. There are 9 markets M1 to M9 in total in the LCP:?

• M1: Transportation to/from the Moon
• M2: Transportation on the Moon
• M3: Communications & Navigation on the Moon
• M4: Energy and Power
• M5: Logistics & Services ?
• M6: In-Situ Construction & Manufacturing
• M7: Lunar Resource Extraction
• M8: Habitation and Storage ?
• M9: Lunar Food Production ?

Market research leads are mostly needed for M4, M6, M8, and M9. Contributions to M2 and M3 are also welcome.?

The work consists in two parts:

• inventory of customers and suppliers for each market: this is well under way and requires mostly consolidation.
• defining and quantifying demand drivers for each market, based on the relationship between the markets. For ex., what is the lunar food demand (M9) based on the human crews required for activities M1 to M8? What is the power generation demand (M4) based on all other activities M1-M9? Etc.?

Interviews will be scheduled. Please send your letter of interest and personal information to the WG Co-Chair, Christophe Bosquillon. ([email protected] )

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