May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer...occur in late 2022. The timeline for international astronauts was not made clear but, given the...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
..., zero gravity and limited space for the crew, before the first flight to Mars. At the 67th International Astronautics Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2016, Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, presented a project for an interplanetary transport system...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
...exploration of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids. They were announced on 13 October 2020 during the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Dubai. The initial eight countries (Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... F Di Pentino, “New Insights on the Orbital Debris Collision Hazard at GEO,” (Address to the IAC-11-A6.2.6, 62nd International Astronautical Congress, Capetown, South Africa, October 2011). 8 ibid. 9 See online: SpaceTrack.org
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
.... “We’re building a truly open spaceport,” Carvalho enthused during an interview on a noisy Portugal Space stand at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, Italy, in October. “Our recent suborbital launches from the Azores are more...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... needed to allow this. Collaborations and data sharing The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the International Astronautical Federation, and the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), among other organisations, encourage data sharing and...
