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...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... India waited until now to join? One answer is that the Artemis Accords have a competitor. In March 2021 Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... Artistic representation of China’s proposed International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base currently being led by Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Senegal was the most recent signatory to the agreement...
