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...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... challenge US supremacy in space. It is true that the military threats to space have indeed increased as India, Russia, and China have all tested ASAT systems over this period. However, since 2010 it has become increasingly apparent...
