May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... by the Atoms for Peace programme of American President Eisenhower in 1957 and made steady progress with the... the United States unilaterally cancelled the JCPOA (under President Trump) and more intensive unilateral sanctions came back into effect...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
...lunar and asteroid resources. In addition, US President Trump recently signed an executive order titled ‘Encouraging ...-Earth mining without the need for further international treaty agreements. Trump’s order also clarifies, at least in part, the US...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... all proved reserves on Earth. Ideally the US Federal Government and other governments would have roles to play. President Trump’s US$1.5 trillion 2018 Infrastructure Initiative aims, in part, to ‘maintain America’s economic competitiveness’. Vice...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
..., though some lucky onlookers were able to watch Falcon 9 blasting off from Florida including President Trump, who is the third sitting president to watch a live launch to the ISS. Today’s success is the culmination of a nine year journey and...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... has fired an anti-satellite missile in a test of technology that the United States Space Command, established by President Trump, considers a threat to American orbital assets. According to data released by staff at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...is compounded by a newly emerging inward-looking geopolitical situation, of which the directions being taken in the US by President Trump and by the United Kingdom over Brexit might be cited as prime examples. Consequently, significant areas of space...
