October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... and stood up the NATO Space Centre; the Alliance will eventually establish a space centre of excellence in Toulouse, France. In 2021, NATO extended its mutual defence clause to include an attack in space, acknowledging the criticality of space...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... into the Moon’s internal structure being developed by scientists Renee Weber from NASA and Raphael Garcia in France, it is believed to have its own hot core which, as with the Earth, consists mainly of iron. It also appears...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...a domestic LEO broadband constellation were probably a not small factor. If Starlink has such difficulty in accessing France, it is hard to imagine the difficulties that a Chinese competitor would encounter. Chinese and Cambodian representatives from...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... permanent preservation Endless Door’s first launch was with the Tianyi satellite that accompanied the China France Oceanography satellite, CFOSaT on 29 October 2018 on the CZ-2C from Jiuquan, sent to an altitude of 510 to 523 km, sufficiently high...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... the responsible use of space. The Combined Space Operations Initiative (CSpO) with members such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, The UK and USA, also aims to improve the cooperation and...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... popular revolutions in history, with millions involved across the political spectrum, and comparable in scale to those in France, Russia and China (in 1789, 1917 and 1949, respectively). Political turbulence followed and the universities closed ...
