July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... in September 2014, as planned, the Indian Space Research Organization will be the fourth space agency to do so after NASA, Roscosmos and the European Space Agency. Success is far from assured, however; historically more than half of all...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... for Operation of Ground- Based Space Infrastructure (usually abbreviated as TsENKI), which is owned by Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, together with developers and manufacturers of launch vehicles – Samara...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... next generation of human space endeavors. Last but not least, I extend my heartfelt thanks to Mr Saveliev, deputy head of ROSCOSMOS, Mr Gersyenmaier and other colleagues from NASA, Mr De Winne from ESA and our JAXA colleagues including astronaut...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...time, data and monitoring centres at agencies such as the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Ministry of Defence of Russia, Roscosmos and others, have functional automated control systems that monitor dangerous space objects - and their goal...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... global catastrophe. It will be the world’s politicians that will quickly point the finger at NASA, at ESA, at JAXA, at Roscosmos, at the Chinese National Space Agency or the Indian Space Research Organisation. They will say the space...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... probably inevitable. This is an ongoing project, which has become more relevant with the intentions of ESA, NASA, Roscosmos and other space agencies to explore the Moon. Later projects include a large experimental ‘Moon Book’ for...
