16 September 2024
IAF announces exciting programme for IAC in Milan
...of space disciplines. This diversity is further reflected in our Plenary Programme, which will feature everything from lunar exploration and in-situ resource utilization to the role of space in addressing climate change and freshwater crises on Earth...
01 October 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
..., the book is sufficiently up-to-date to include discussion of the Lunar Gateway and the plan to return humans to the Moon in ...index. It would make an ideal primer on manned lunar exploration and would bring the reader ‘up to speed’ on the...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... launch site, the launch of global satcom, satnav, and EO constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun with a pandemic that shut down China and the...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... the status quo. Indeed, it would be a brave, perhaps short-sighted, practitioner who would rule out insuring a lunar exploration or asteroid mining mission sometime in the not-too-distant future. Speculation apart, for the foreseeable future...
28 April 2021
First piece of China's space station expected to launch this week
... Saturday, the chief designer of the third stage of China's lunar exploration program, Hu Hao, said the country is aiming to launch ...samples in 2020, Chang'e-6 would also collect lunar samples automatically for comprehensive analysis and research. It...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... military fighter pilots. With the start of the lunar exploration programme, the military personnel – transferred from the ...high government priority. As a result, today’s space exploration is dominated by objects and artefacts that are mostly ...
