June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... a capability that could very easily be passed on to the private sector. Do you think the Russian space agency Roscosmos could take it over? I don’t believe so - I’m being realistic and have to stress that it is my opinion - I think they would...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... to hand-off the operation and sustainment of LEO to the commercial and entrepreneurial sector, while agencies like Roscosmos, JAXA, CSA, ESA and NASA move on to lunar orbit for the decade of the 2020s, using the...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... landing in Kazakhstan with ISS crew members Jessica Meir and Drew Morgan of NASA, and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, on 17 April 2020. Shortly after landing, NASA’s Jessica Meir described the situation on her return to Earth as “quite...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... locations on Earth by NASA in collaboration with the University of Hawaii (HI-SEAS); the European Space Agency (ESA) with Roscosmos (Mars-500); and the Mars Society (Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station and Mars Desert Research...
01 December 2014
MAVEN studies Martian atmosphere
...water vapour, focusing on the Martian upper atmosphere. Its elliptical orbiter sequence occurs. Within a 50-year plan, Roscosmos is interested in establishing a permanent manned lunar research base, with a site on the Moon’s South Pole being a stated...
21 July 2015
Flawless Baikonur launch sees Soyuz head to ISS, reminds of importance of international cooperation
.... The Soyuz, a trusty “work horse” of a spacecraft, is set to deliver NASA’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of JAXA to a new home in orbit. Following a series of startling failures of unmanned missions to the ISS...
