January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...have no projects to build artificial gravity into our space stations. International Space Station (2021). Hosting a visit of German ..., in the United States, a kind of space race developing between billionaires. I think this will have a very big...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... South Korea, Japan, India and UAE all planning missions to the Moon this year. The new Space Race is expanding beyond competition between the US and China to include Russia and Europe. During a recent conference, European...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible. ... (1990) and which won the ‘great Asian space race’ against China and India (2007), effectively abandoned ...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... preserve Earth and all its living species. Debating the ethics of space activities is certainly of great importance and fascination, however the space race is already a contemporary matter with profound consequences. Whichever perspective one wishes...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... is to finance a proof of concept. Every initiative that requires huge investments in basic research and development, like the Space Race of the 1950s or the high-energy physics of today, requires a massive upfront investment that can only be covered...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
... stands as a testament to how smaller nations can be bold, creative and indispensable players in the 21st century space race. Editor’s note This article is based on interview at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), in Milan, Italy, October...
