January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and income will provide the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... has been published on the Indian space programme, so this personal history is a welcome addition to the ‘space library’. The book is the story of an “award-winning senior scientist” involved with the programme “from its very inception”. Aravamudan...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...and satellite imaging and communications tend to be lucrative. Indirectly, countries often hope that investing in their space programmes will inspire their students to study science and technology fields, eventually spurring their economies, and that...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...2.0 was that it protected the role of the state as the main initiator, beneficiary and investor in space programmes and projects. Space research can once again be a leader of innovation only on the basis of a new visionary project. The most promising...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...of national objectives in accordance with the German space strategy is carried out in large part in the context of ESA programmes. These are complemented by projects in the national space programme, which include providing instruments for ESA science...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... returned to the Moon for 45 years. But do not forget how the missions of Apollo - and more recent space programmes - have changed our humanity and society in an irreversible way, perhaps in the process forcing us to accomplish not one...
