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...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... with an estimated value of more than US$100 trillion. New space race Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ethical questions Moon...
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 ...
