October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... from Russia (the others were from Belgium, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Germany, Norway, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Peru and Mexico). As if to emphasise the new bi-polar world, the United States...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... managed by majority shareholders. As the company has expanded, it has taken on distributors across the world, including in Japan, India and Italy. Due to the size of the US market, Alpha Data has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Alpha...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... should engage. Currently, three nations are capable of launching their own astronauts into space, with a fourth - India - expected soon. There will be others, and my question is: does Europe also want independent access to space for...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... European observation programme, Copernicus. Sentinel-5P tropospheric nitrogen dioxide measurements over Europe, Africa, Middle East, and India from April 2018 (averaged). Air pollution emitted by big cities and shipping lanes is clearly visible. The...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... security. More and more countries are developing their own space programmes, with South Korea, Japan, India and UAE all planning missions to the Moon this year. The new Space Race is expanding beyond...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... laws and rules. Similar to historic constructs of overseas colonisation such as the British and the Dutch East India Company, the forerunners in ‘space colonisation’ might realise similar commercial success but will also run the...
