May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... have cost some two percent of GDP). The global satcom industry has also seen a downturn in GEO communications satellite orders since the mid-2010s, partly due to fewer countries purchasing so-called ‘PrideSats’. Indeed, the most...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...work of the United Nations to keep weapons out of space Under reforming minister Takeo Kawamura, navigation and communications satellites were added, with military security identified as the top priority of the space programme. The Liberal Democratic...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Next, the Space Development Agency’s plan to launch the Transport Layer or 126 communications satellites to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capability, basically taking data from space and...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
...to listen in on the Soviet space programme from the south shore of the Caspian Sea (in 1956), access to Intelsat communications satellites (in 1969) and Landsat remote sensing (in 1972). Iran was, like China, a scientific civilisation long before the...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...provide global coverage of the Earth’s surface, except for the polar regions. This helped to create the communications satellite age. In the case of an Extraterrestrial Skyring, if the clumping was well managed, but in a 1:2 resonance orbit at 26,500...
October 2026
Singapore – a small nation with big space ambitions
... time to start paying attention The Singapore Government plans to invest in advanced tools for Earth observation, secure communications, satellite image analysis and carbon monitoring, as well as space traffic and debris management. Space technology...
