July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... to develop long range missiles as delivery vehicles for their nuclear bombs. There was no civilian Soviet space programme as such. Each space funding decision was made on the grounds of priorities at that moment in time, and those priorities could...
01 March 2021
Turkey to build a rocket launch site in Somalia to support Moon 2023 landing
... capability, is being produced by the company. Middle East Eye (MME) news site has reported that Turkey’s space programme is expected to cost the country in excess of $1 billion. Included in that sum are governmental draft calculations that suggest...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... policy framework assessment for both industrial and institutional entities. She contributes to the analysis of governments’ space programmes and policies, with a focus on legal aspects, and also contributes regularly to various Euroconsult reports...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... understand the reasons why the American manned space programme died a slow death after the stunning ...real correlation between the neglected and under-funded post-Apollo space programme, and the development of global economic afflictions such as weak...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...priorities came at the expense of the hitherto all-civil space programme. Japan, which had been first to the Moon after...2014), but it was not until 2019 that the Indian space programme developed an explicit military dimension by shooting down one of ...
05 June 2019
A first for China as it demonstrates new sea-launch capabilities
... years – the last was Russian-backed firm Sea Launch in 2014 – and is another milestone in China’s ambitious space programme. Launching a rocket from the sea is said to provide a number of advantages from lowering costs, to the flexibility of being...
