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COSMOVISION GLOBAL FOUNDERS
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![]() Dr.Andrew Zhalko-Tytarenko, Company Director, CTO, and Founder. |
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Ilya is Australian born in Ukraine, and is a graduate of the Kiev University School of Law,
having first moved to Australia in 1995. As an early space business enthusiast he testified before the US Congress Committee in 1992 advocating commercial space activities. He created the first space-related school program, which culminated in the 2002 launch of the world’s first school satellite Kolibri-2000. Development of Kolibri-2000 involved students of the Knox Grammar School and Ravenswood School for Girls, both located in Sydney . He also arranged the direct broadcast from space to the 1996 MTV Award Ceremony in the USA. In 2005 Ilya initiated the project of airborne space launch from Australia using a high-altitude M-55 aircraft. The project was supported by the Australian Governor General Michael Jeffery. He also created the world’s first commercial space training and tourism program and prepared a variety of media scripts for educational documentaries and science films. Since 1996, the Australian companies TechnoImport and CosmoVision (of which he is CEO and founder) have held exclusive world rights to create curricula, research, travel, and advertising programs for television broadcast from the MIR space station and the Russian segment of the ISS. He has worked with numerous prestigious policy and academic groups over the years, including the Carnegie Foundation. He has appeared as a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford Universities, consulted various government departments in the Asia-Pacific region, and presented speeches at social events held by the Royal families of Great Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In Australia, Ilya served as Co-President of the Future Foundation together with Dame Leonie Kramer, Chancellor of the University of Sydney. In 1993, as CEO of Cyprus company MOSNIKOS he spearheaded the creation of the first-ever video conferencing system with Cypriot state company SITA and the Space Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Russia. |