September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... Muhammed Khatami took office in 1997. He asked Russia and China to launch its first satellites, set up the Aerospace Research Institute (ARI) with a space biology programme in 2000, the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) in 2005 and the Space...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... agency until May 2024 when the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) replaced the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) as the lead government organisation for space research. It is therefore particularly interesting to discover that the nation...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... the systems needed for extraterrestrial construction. Meanwhile, researchers studying regolith for construction (such as the Osaka Institute of Technology and Korea Aerospace Research Institute) and instrument developers (such as University College...
