October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... the Moon are scheduled in the framework of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme, as well as others from India and Russia. The debuts of several new launch vehicles are planned for 2021, including Ariane 6 and...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... by the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 and the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events such as India’s 2019 Shakti anti-satellite test (ASAT) and Russia’s alleged Kosmos-2543 ASAT in July 2020 illustrate...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... – an alliance of 17 space agencies and space system operators from around the world including USA, Russia, China, India, Canada, Japan, the UAE, Europeans and the UN who freely share their satellite data in support of humanitarian...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... on the ground. Germany, early this year also launched their quantum comms CubeSat, and the US and India also have their own upcoming missions. These little CubeSats which started off as cute solutions to allow...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... the Earth’s magnetic field. During the Carrington event of September 1859, a geomagnetic observatory in Colaba (near Mumbai, India) measured the most extreme geomagnetic variation ever recorded at equatorial regions. From the data from Colaba...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
... and looking after policies and procedures of GN&C in the mission control room. Seeing a female, who was born in India and raised in the US, at the forefront of the mission coverage was a clear demonstration that regardless of your gender...
