July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... benefits, both at home and abroad, can be considerable. "The Chinese view this as a useful exercise in swaying popular opinion inside the country in favour of this particular regime", Launius says. "This is a way to make the people in the...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... a self-sufficient system set that is an independent SC, meant to be combined with other such blocks. In our opinion, one of the results of developing modules and standardisation of satellite systems together with the distribution of a single network...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
... (URSC). After a rigorous medical and psychological selection process that took into account the participants’ own opinions about their desired team, six women aged between 25 and 34 were chosen for the experiment. The...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... on business plans focused on space resources utilisation, and by extension the security of investments in those plans. However, opinion is consolidating around the interpretation that the US law is in compliance with the OST. A scenario in which...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... missions that ESA and European industry has had to implement and conduct to this day. In our humble opinion, we believe that the Rosetta mission can be considered the ‘Apollo’ moment of our decade. It has not only...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... is co-founder and contributor to the Go Taikonauts! electronic magazine. He thanks Jacqueline Myrrhe and William Carey for valuable opinions and support during writing of this article.
