May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... to reach orbit, Dongfanghong-1, on 24 April 1970, a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer from countries such as the Soviet Union...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... differences between Russia and the US, and more recently with People’s Republic of China, are major barriers to cooperation in controlling placement of weapons in outer space. For instance, geopolitical, economic, legal and other related factors and...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...French group that remained on the project was headed by the famous J. Blaumont. It was responsible for international cooperation in calculating the balloon aerostat’s coordinates and speed in the atmosphere, using the radio interferometry method with...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... to cislunar space and the lunar surface. Initial robotic exploration missions will be followed by robotic/human cooperation (robots on the surface controlled by astronauts in orbit) and eventually by human surface missions. Spaceship EAC utilises...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... the rule of law governing the activities of states in outer space, jeopardise the longstanding spirit of international cooperation, and splinter the international rules-based order in space. In managing the policy, political, and social challenges...
25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
... the orbiting outpost, the construction of which was first started in 1998 and is often held up as a beacon of international cooperation. The ISS, which is a collaboration among the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency, is divided...
