Naming a star is old news – you can now give your loved one the sense of being ever-present in space by sharing your storage on the Asgardia-1 satellite.

After accepting the Constitution, you will be granted storage space on Asgardia-1, due to launch this fall, and you can upload text or photos. The first 1.5 million people can send their files for free.

So take your loved ones, your friend, your schoolmate along with you for this journey that begins your permanent presence in space. It is a present that is, quite literally, out of this world.

Asgardia has broken the 50,000 record -- to date, 51,594 Asgardians voted to accept the new Constitution. Those who have accepted the Constitution have the power to bring about change by submitting petitions to branches of Asgardia's government.

The new Constitution allows Asgardians to put forth legislative proposals and initiate referenda. It can also be amended. As Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli said on 13 June 2017 at the press conference in Hong Kong,  urging Asgardians to vote for the Constitution as presented, "(i)t may change many times, the same as our Asgardia space humanity will change".

Accepting the Constitution allows Asgardians to then vote on the national symbols, upload their files to the Asgardia-1 satellite, thus permanently establishing their presence in space, as well as nominate themselves or vote for others in the leadership elections.

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A Russian businessman is readying to launch a data centre into space in August this year, in what is certainly one of the most ambitious projects the data centre industry has seen in recent times. The project is part of a much larger idea which started in 2016 with the announcement of the development of a pacifist nation-state in space. “Asgardia will become a place in orbit which is truly ‘no man’s land’,” those involved in the project said during its launch as they hope to gain recognition from the UN in the years to come. Those interested in entering Asgardia will go through an admission process, and could potentially gain citizenship to the “nation-state”.

Asgardia has revealed that it will be launching its first satellite data centre into space in August, in the form of a small CubeSat. The data centre will measure at just 10x10x20cm, at a weight of only 2.8kg. The Asgardia nation was set up by the Russian computer scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, and has had almost 200,000 verified citizens gathered from around 200 countries. After the development of Asgardia last year, over 500,000 applications have been received from people that have registered to become citizens of the first ‘space nation.’ According to Ashurbeyli, the first 100,000 people to sign up will be able to transfer 300KB of data into space.

More than half a million people have applied to become citizens of the first independent "space nation". After the creation of Asgardia was announced in Paris last October, more than 500,000 applications were received within the first 20 days, the team behind the project has revealed. The numbers were so high it forced a change of the rules for those hoping to become part of the visionary plan to establish a new space nation with its own constitution and laws. Asgardia switched to a stricter system that filtered out children registering without their parents' permission, duplicate applications, people who refused to provide required information, and non-human internet "bots".

Der 53-jährige "Staatsgründer" Igor Ashurbeyli hat im Oktober 2016 seinen Plan einer Weltraumnation verkündet und seitdem haben sich tausende Menschen dem Projekt angeschlossen: Insgesamt 229746 Erdenbürger (Stand 20.6. 2017, 14:00) gehören heute der "Weltraumnation Asgardia" an. Der Großteil der Asgardier kommt aus China, der Türkei und den USA. Österreich liegt bei der Zahl der Anmeldungen mit 668 Personen auf Platz 43 von 220 registrierten Nationen. Praktisch jeder kann Bürger der Weltraumnation werden. Die Bewerbung erfolgt einfach über ein Online-Formular. Einzige Grundvoraussetzung ist das Alter: über 18 Jahre.

Bisher sieht die Population von Asgardia aber noch etwas einseitig aus: Rund 80 Prozent der Weltraum-Bürger sind nämlich männlich und nur rund 20 Prozent weiblich. Die Mehrheit ist zwischen 18 und 35 Jahre alt.

At the second Asgardian press conference, seven months after Asgardia was founded, it was announced that things are moving along quickly.

Head of Nation – Term Limit

First, Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli announced that he has constitutionally limited his own authority to a five-year period. "This will allow Asgardians to thoughtfully define how they see their future, and to incorporate necessary changes into the Constitution and the laws of Asgardia," he said.

The Constitution

The Head of Nation assured Asgardian citizens that nothing is set in stone. "Today I am calling upon everyone to vote for this Constitution as it is presented. It may change many times, the same as our Asgardian space humanity will change. But today we must not waste time."

Asgardia’s Government

Ashurbeyli emphasized that he plans to have a fully operational government in place in the next six months: "According to our Constitution, in only six months, we have to form the Parliament of Asgardia based on the language representativeness principle. And in the three months after – the Government, the Court, The Prosecutors Office, the National Audit Office and the other governmental bodies."

Decree No 6 – Voting Is Open!

Ashurbeyli urged Asgardians to ratify the Constitution, choose the national symbols and participate in leadership elections. "Without this we would be a fake nation, a sophisticated computer game. And this is not what we want," said Ashurbeyli. "We want to build a serious, legitimate, independent first space nation, which is recognised by the Earth states and the United Nations, and which is facing towards space in its development."

Sending Files to Space

The Head of Nation encouraged Asgardians to invite their parents, brothers, sisters, extended family and friends to join and send files to space.

After they have accepted the Constitution, Asgardians are encouraged to send their files to space. The first 100,000 people who became Asgardian citizens can send up to 500KB each to Asgardia-1. The next 400,000 Asgardians can send up to 200KB. The next million citizens can send up to 100KB each. After that, free storage will be closed.

"These are historic days, and your names and data will forever stay in the memory of the new space humanity, as they will be reinstalled on every following Asgardia satellite, orbital satellite constellations, on the Moon and anywhere in the Universe – wherever Asgardia will be," said Ashurbeyli.

Following the Hong Kong conference yesterday, the number of Asgardian citizens has risen to more than 200,000 people globally. This elevates Asgardia to 184 ^th place by population among countries worldwide, getting ahead of Samoa, Guernsey and Jersey, and Guam.

As Asgardia enters its eighth month of existence, even more people are expected to join.

Media outlets from around the globe reported on Asgardia and its plans for the future that were revealed at the press conference in Hong Kong on 13 June 2017.

CNN writes that “(g)oing forward, the Asgardia team hopes to create habitable platforms in low-earth orbits -- the first 100 to 200 miles (161 to 321 kilometers) from space, which is also where the ISS is located. The first human flight to this location is projected to take place in eight years' time.”

Asgardia’s Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli told CNN: "I was interested in doing something unusual that nobody else was doing," Ashurbeyli told CNN. "It was my dream to create an independent country."
“We want to give equal opportunities to everyone who has a mind, who can do something, for their protection,” he said. “Our real home is not the house or the city where we were born. (Our) home is planet Earth, (and) we want to protect it.”

CNET called Asgardia “… a legal, technological and philosophical experiment that declares an orbiting server to be a sovereign country”. It reported that “Asgardia-1 brings the conceptual country one step closer to that goal…”

Space.com wrote that Ashurbeyli “…hopes to create a planetary-defense constellation that will help protect against asteroids, solar flares and human-made space debris; this satellite is just the first step.” The Space.com story was picked up by NBC News.

"Sixty years after the launch of the first-ever artificial satellite, Sputnik, our own space satellite, Asgardia-1, will mark the beginning of a new space era, taking our citizens into space in virtual form, at first," Ashurbeyli told Space.com.

South China Morning Post reported that “…although almost all Asgardia’s activities are conducted online, its leader insisted the country – with its own calendar system, public holidays, and soon, national flag and anthem – was more than a computer game.”

Ashurbeyli is quoted as saying “I’m an engineer, and I’m used to seeing the results of my work during my lifetime. I’m sure that anything coming from Asgardia that we’ll design will also come to life during our lifetime.”

Overall, almost 150 publications worldwide picked up the story.

Named after a Norse mythological city of the skies, Asgardia is open to all residents on planet earth and it doesn't cost anything to join. Russian scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli announced his plans to form the world's first independent nation that operates in outer space in October 2016. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have signed up to be citizens. Ashurbeyli says the project's mission is to provide a "peaceful society", offer easier access to space technologies, and protect Earth from space threats, such as asteroids and man-made debris in space.