16 April 2020
China in Space
...liquid propellants). The volume is well illustrated with colour photos, most of which – in stark contrast to books on western space programmes – will be new to the majority of readers. As with most history texts, the book is arguably most interesting...
15 June 2020
Skyrora hits a milestone with suborbital rocket launch
...tirelessly to bring to life a reusable rocket that can provide valuable intelligence for the future of the UK space programme.” It comes after Skyrora successfully completed a full static fire test on their Skylark-L launch vehicle. Volodymyr Levykin...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
...-to-face. They learn a lot, and come to feel both the pain and the joy of being in the space programme. After my return to Earth, I have been to dozens of schools. I spoke to many children and saw firsthand their yearning...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... fee in ESA, as was predicted. This is all due to the fact that, in practice, contracts from the European space programme funded by the EU are only awarded to companies and scientists from ESA members, which Poland helps to fund...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... were not pro-active enough in promoting these programmes and consequently the return was quite low. Nonetheless...this questioning some will answer that every dollar spent in space programmes in the United States has brought US$8 of economic benefits...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... India’s entire value chain from upstream to downstream is mostly occupied by the government ministries/organisations India’s space programme dates back to the early 1960s and today stands in the midst of major achievements including having homegrown...