July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...the country only the third nation, also after the US and Russia, to land a spacecraft on Earth's satellite - a tricky ... as a collaborator on the International Space Station with the US, Russia, Europe and Canada. Japan built a large science lab room ...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... as organize so-called complete knock down (CKD) assembly of “national VSAT” in countries such as India, Brazil, China, and Russia, where the government limits import and imposes heavy customs and administrative duties on the finished product...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...precise orbital parameters of the comet. For Russia, launching Western spacecraft does not help develop ... turn invited Soviet scientists to work on NASA projects. Now, Russia must provide launch vehicles for European projects for the chance to ...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... via the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia: British singer Sarah Brightman and Japanese businessman Satoshi... candidate for space flight must fit medical criteria determined by Russia and the ISS program for manned space flight. We pay...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
... total area of launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, Wallops, Vandenberg, and Kwajalein is less than half the size of Russia’s Plesetsk launch facilities and the facilities at Baikonur. If we develop reusable rockets and one-stage, multi-environment...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...Ever since the US retired its Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA pays Russia US$70 million a seat to send its astronauts to the Space Station. ... that would accrue to nations like the US, Europe, Russia and China - which already possess varied levels of space...
