April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... Gateway will help test the technologies and capabilities required for a sustained human presence in deep space. While the Space Race didn’t become ‘official’ until President John F Kennedy’s famous speech in 1961, it actually began immediately after...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... cusp of the second great Space Age - a space race led this time not by a Cold War military arms race but by a rapidly emerging global commercial space sector. This private sector space race is creating a new ‘Wild West’ in space, the ultimate ‘New...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... perfect moment in global technology. Our ability to get to space and operate there has been getting easier thanks to aerospace standing...iPhones and Galaxy phones. At its core, the ‘new space race’, has been powered in part by our insatiable demand ...
03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
... the story of Virgin Galactic’s 17-year struggle to bring a spaceship into service and render Richard Branson’s dreams of space tourism a reality. According to the book’s blurb, the author “knows Virgin Galactic intimately [having] spent nearly...
01 April 2024
Astrotopia. The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
..., but clearly it’s a differentiator for the book and plays to the author’s academic background. It is in chapters titled “Whose space is it?” and “The rights of rocks” that the author settles into the environmental issues. Although a wider reading...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... operation that requires precision navigation, tracking and manoeuvring. Rising star If China is the leader in the Asian space race, India is the rising star. The unmanned Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission orbited the Moon from 2008 to 2009...
