May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... minutes from ‘Doomsday’, as the Soviet Union and the United States tested new hydrogen weapons. In July 2014, commenting on the state of the world, the former US Secretary of State Madame Madeleine Albright acknowledged, “To put it mildly, the world...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... why he believes this recipe, far from promising success, is a ‘witches brew’ that President Trump, and the United States, should avoid at all costs. Just over 50 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Americans working together as a great nation...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... undertaking and consider some of the legal and technical challenges. Since the end of the 1960s, the United States and, subsequently, other countries such as China and Japan, have been interested in harnessing solar energy in outer...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... only country that had such advanced technology was Israel, along with external powers such as the United States, France, and Russia. On top of the growing number of Middle East countries acquiring highresolution Earth observation satellites...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... commercialisation policy goals for government-led space programmes. As part of US Space Policy Directive-1, the President of the United States set two objectives: “the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilisation”, and...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... notably, it is much cheaper to give a space tourist from Europe a round-trip plane ticket to visit one of the United States spaceports than spend time and money developing spaceport infrastructure and applying for spaceplane certification in Europe...
