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...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... the hundredth anniversary of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. But there is still so much to understand. In the past, space programmes were designed for 30 years ahead. For the ISS, for example, the design, construction and operation...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... to be restructured with a top administrator assigned the task of planetary defence against cosmic hazards, and if military space programmes were similarly restructured, then more rapid progress could be made in this crucial area. For instance, these...
