October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...) satellites the launched TJS 3 and TJS 7 [2018, 2021] are. There seems to be no TJS 8. TJS 1, 4 and 9 [2015, 2019, 2021] are assessed to be electronic intelligence (ELINT) satellites. They are sometimes also referred to as Qianshao-3 or Chang Cheng...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... in the Secure World Foundation’s recently released report, entitled ‘Global Counterspace Capability - an open source assessment’ [April 2019, www.swfound.org]. At the end of March and nearly a decade after Indian military scientists first declared...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
...have led to the suspension of sanctions. However, in 2019, the United States unilaterally cancelled the JCPOA (under President ...and suffered a second stage failure, while the 15 January 2019 launch of the Payam satellite suffered a third stage failure...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
...which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019 NASA are on their own, as the agency hasn't committed to...Hurley into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in April 2019. Providing all goes well up to this stage, then ...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
...association which represents the UK space industry, in September 2019. He previously played a central role in the ... Graham Peters, Chair of UKspace, at the UK Space Conference 2019 in Newport, Wales. In addition to the challenges that this will...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... as much as it will be for the UK space industry. Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart visiting Cornwall in the summer of 2019. Pictured (from left) are: Al Titterington, Managing Director, Cornwall Airport Newquay; Miles Carden, Director, Spaceport Cornwall...
