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...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... technical challenges. Since the end of the 1960s, the United States and, subsequently, other countries such as China and Japan, have been interested in harnessing solar energy in outer space and transmitting it efficiently to Earth. According...
