February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, most actors in outer space, space agencies and commercial satellite...become another battlefield. This risk was high during the Cold War but both the Soviet Union and the USA decided...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
...failure’, but are the political prejudices of the new cold war triumphing over reality? There is no doubt that the ...America became the norm - something that had never happened during the Cold War from the 1960s to 1980s, nor even in Germany in the ...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
...governments made the initial investments in space exploration as part of their Cold War Space Race. But now the children of those times have stepped.... We have always known this. The tug of war between the forces of accumulated wealth and power as they...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... ‘useful space’ came from an unexpected direction. Who indeed could have foreseen that the competition born of Cold War that carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
..., the number of countries involved has expanded considerably. Countries now involved in space exploration include the historical, Cold War opponents, the United States and Russia; European countries, primarily through the European Space Agency (ESA...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... humankind. We are on the cusp of the second great Space Age - a space race led this time not by a Cold War military arms race but by a rapidly emerging global commercial space sector. This private sector space race...
