June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
...’s Cygnus-15 resupply ship, all from the United States, and Russia’s Progress 75 and 77 resupply ships and Soyuz MS-18 crew ship. Legislation in place provides that transport of patented articles to or from the ISS through a launching site...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... satellites were orbited by Russian launchers both from their military base at Plesetsk and the now-abandoned Soyuz base in Kourou in the European Union - to spy on Russia! The sky over Maui 45-90 seconds after project Starfish...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... industries are contributing China’s first human spacecraft was a capsule derived from the Soviet Union’s old Soyuz design, albeit considerably larger. Just over two decades later, China is conducting regular operations with a large...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... had its first astronaut: Anousheh Ansari, a successful telecoms businesswoman who flew as an American tourist on a Russian spaceship, Soyuz TMA-09, in 2006. Her mission was followed with great enthusiasm in Iran at both official and popular level...
13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... services using them. Arianespace’s current launch fleet consists of Ariane 5 for large payloads, the Russian-built Soyuz for medium payloads, and the European Vega for small payloads. Ariane 5 is very reliable, but Europe...
09 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket or a Vega small-satellite launcher. France's contribution to the Merlin project will be 100 million euros and...
