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...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... administrative service in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was on the boards of Air India and the Airports Authority of India. As India’s Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, he is focussed on the...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
...competitor to Vega (Europe), Taurus and Minotaur (US), and GSLV (India) – while being able to carry bigger loads. Yet the ... in the “lighter launches” category. In Russia, Europe, India, China and Japan, government-owned satellites will be launched by...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
... – ISRO Nano Satellite-1 (INS-1) weighing 8.4 kg and INS-2 weighing 9.7 kg – are technology demonstration satellites from India. The remaining 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), The Netherlands...
June 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...: one person died and 20 others were injured, and damage was caused to property in the state of Orissa in India by a fragment of a massive meteorite; • 7 June 2006: there was an explosion in the Norwegian mountains, similar in magnitude to the atomic...
