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...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
.... The agency has succeeded so far primarily by pursuing a policy of joint technological development with other nations including China, India, Russia and Ukraine. Now, following the ratification of a technology safeguards agreement (TSA) with the USA...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... 2007, a defunct Chinese weather satellite called Fengyun 1C was targeted and deliberately destroyed at an altitude of 865 km as part of China’s anti-satellite (ASAT) programme, adding about 3000 trackable debris objects and over 150,000 untrackable...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... a Martian city of one million inhabitants. And in February 2021, three new robotic explorers from the USA, China and the United Arab Emirates arrived successfully at Mars. Momentum is thus building towards astronaut flights to Mars...
