July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...a reprise of the 960s' space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The space race then was ... of China's space programme looks to be modelled on the steps the United States and others have already made in space. "They're at the level now...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... and competitive.” The international community, through the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space...and have been incorporated into the standard practice of the United States. Progress has been made in limiting the creation of new...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... mission-critical satellite, Wi-Fi and aviation technologies to major business, government and non-governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. We are proud of our partnership with Thuraya, for whom we developed the VIPturbo, a compact...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... a remarkable edifice in the International Space Station (ISS). Additionally, NASA’s space science programme has led the United States into the history books as the first nation to fly spacecraft into orbit or to flyby every significant planet...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... technology created by the space programme as a selling point for continued funding and development. Called ‘spinoffs’ in the United States, these have been accorded their own NASA publication and are frequently used for marketing purposes...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... Ellington Field a true gateway to space. The location of a spaceport in a large metropolitan area (Houston is the United States’ fourth largest city) is somewhat unique and provides opportunities as well as challenges. The major challenge is that...
