July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
.... Some of these were longstanding counterparts with a history of NASA collaboration on the International Space Station (ISS) such as Japan, Canada and Europe (ESA), while others were emerging partners with big ambitions, such as Luxembourg, Australia...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...than 30 rocket launch sites worldwide For location, Japan’s island-based Tanegashima Space Center and China’s ...by fisherman, because their fishing - an important industry in Japan - was interrupted by range closures. Compromises were reached, but...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... for future air transport, dubbed Hikari1, which comprises 16 partners, 12 of them in Europe and four in Japan. This research combines Japan’s long-standing efforts to develop the technology for supersonic and hypersonic airliners with Europe’s high...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
..., or the beginning of 2016. The challenge from Japan was unexpected. Insurers have already confirmed that the main... launches” category. In Russia, Europe, India, China and Japan, government-owned satellites will be launched by locally made rockets....
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... original Stanford Torus concept. Beyond some general declarations, the relevant leading countries (Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom and USA) did not publish an ethical code for space but were involved...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...spacepower were sown decades ago, and India, China and Japan were early non-Western spacepowers, dating back to the...other countries had already begun to build their space programs. Japan launched its first satellite in February 1970, followed by China...
