July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...Industries that had spent the previous decades engaged in military production greatly appreciated this new task, as it ...will have to be sustained by the state as they supply the military sector. New hope: Space 3.0 A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches ...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
...first observation satellites were launched with the goal of military espionage, the surveillance of both enemies and friends... or nuclear war. Undoubtedly, we needed this first military-led step before arriving at the civil Earth observation satellites...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... celestial bodies must be used exclusively for peaceful purposes. Military activities on the Moon and other celestial bodies are forbidden... such that: more countries are using space for military purposes; there is more aggressive and extensive space...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... with soldiers who accept a higher, specific type of risk, even including loss of life, whether during training or a military mission. Analogous specific constraints on soldiers are related to their limited autonomy and freedom, resulting from the...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
...‘ZATO’, a closed area, while Plesetsk is run by the military), but over time they opened up. France’s President de Gaulle ... was dropped from a B-52 bomber in 1990 to orbit a military satellite, the idea then used in the Explorer scientific programme. ...
09 April 2019
US space chiefs justify ambitious exploration plans
... government space leaders Tuesday offered justification for their ambitious plans to reorganise the nation’s civil and military space efforts and to accelerate exploration programmes, including the new goal announced in recent weeks to land American...
