03 April 2019
LinkSpace successfully launches reusable rocket prototype
...under the cover of relative anonymity is LinkSpace – Chinas answer to SpaceX and it has just launched its ... to a height of 20 metres during a test flight in eastern China’s Shandong province last week. The rocket made a perfect landing despite strong...
07 May 2021
Fears can ease over uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentry this weekend say trackers
... (18000 mph), the roughly 30-metre-tall, 5-metre-diameter of China’s empty Long March 5b rocket body had caused considerable concern following...down within a pre-defined reentry zone. Last year China came under criticism when it became known that the ...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... this challenge, we gathered together two volunteer teams, one in Bremen, Germany, and one in Shanghai, China. We leveraged existing non-space grassroots entrepreneurial community building strategies, specifically, the concept of Startup Weekend, and...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... (NASA, ESA, etc) could easily have been coordinated in developing a cislunar infrastructure. Perhaps even Russia and China would have joined such an internationally driven and mutually beneficial mega-project over the time that...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... Agency to promote collaboration among companies and research organisations, and dialogue established with the space industries of China and Japan, and with JAXA, the Japanese space agency. France and SA have also discussed space...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
.... The recent anti-satellite test by India, on 27 March 2019, confirms an extremely worrying trend which started with China’s ASAT demonstration in January 2007 and was followed by America’s confirmation of its own ASAT capability in February 2008...
