April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also confirmed... Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for ...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... and the pursuit of industrial modernisation. Sensitive rocket and satellite technologies have long since spread to Europe, India and Japan, despite initial US technology controls. Many states have sought to join the ‘Space Club’ of international...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...sites are located close to the sea, be they sandy sea shores e.g., Cape Canaveral, Wallops Island (US); Sriharikota (India), Kourou (Europe) or hilly sea shore e.g., Vandenberg (US), Uchinoura, Tanegashima (Japan), Naro (Rep Korea), the latter posing...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... regular launch operations: China, Europe (via Arianespace), India, Japan, Russia and the USA. Collectively, they ... of process, it is fair to say that many states, such as India, had expressed reservations as early as 2011. So, after more than eight ...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...including non-functional objects. Others such as China, India and the European Space Agency (ESA) provide information... other regarding launches, as we saw earlier this year during India’s launch of four Swarm Technologies (USA) satellites which did ...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
...short-sighted US politicians gutted the space programme Europe, India and China have seen the vision and are pursuing ...(ESA) welcomes joint efforts with space enterprise companies and India has one of the world’s fastest growing space programmes with...
