July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...were largely the same as the ICBMs required by the military. Agreement to build a rocket somewhat more powerful than ... the early 1960s this synergy between human spaceflight and military technologies began to unravel. Korolev had championed the use...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... its allies amass in northern Queensland to practice how they would cooperate to initiate, prosecute and successfully end a military campaign [13]. The Department of Defence could commit to launch a small satellite, or more than one, every two years...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...questioning the utility of not only their scientific and military expertise but also questioning the underlying, fundamental ideas... made its name circumnavigating Earth. Today the military, global transport networks, the global financial markets...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
... executive experience and board positions across the UK and US military and private sectors. He is an experienced programme manager and... in the White House and Pentagon, Director of UK Military Operations, and latterly the RAF Deputy Chief and Chief ...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... there had been at least 20 cases of deliberate omissions, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. For example, the Chinese military satellite Kuaizhou-1 and rumoured secret USA satellite PROWLEE 1990-097E were deliberately not registered. The...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...surveillance tracking systems are under the control of national military authorities. This is easily understood since they were ...information does not include its own and allies’ military spacecraft. A few civilian governmental organisations, including...
