16 January 2019
China grows cotton on the Moon
... in the mini biosphere experiment at the Chongqing University in southwest China. After making the first-ever soft landing on the far side...of the Moon at the start of the year, China's Chang'e-4 mission has pioneered the first mini biosphere ...
16 January 2017
First international contract for commercial rocket launch signed by Denmark and China
...which it would not be possible to initiate next year’s launch. "China's aerospace industry has been developing for 60 years, and we will take...485 billion U.S. Dollars, while the market value in China alone could reach 800 billion yuan (116 billion ...
03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
... polyester resin sheets thinner than a human hair. And now, China is doing the same. This week, the Shenyang Institute of... the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) based in Northeast China's Liaoning province, announced that the nation’s first solar sail...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...space programmes now? The big military space spender is the United States (€21.6bn); followed far behind by China (€2.5 billion); Russia, €1.4 billion; Japan, €0.91 billion; France €749 million (Policy Exchange). Although this is little realised, the...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...was far from uninhabited. The problem is most acute in China, especially Xichang, where falling rocket stages are judged an ... and broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of China in Space - the Great Leap (2nd edition) (Praxis/Springer,...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... and broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. He’s author of Japan in Space - Past, Present and Future (Praxis/Springer 2023), China in Space - the Great Leap (2nd edition) (Praxis/Springer, 2019), European-Russian Cooperation in Space - from de Gaulle...
