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...
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 ...
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...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... and planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast region rode the economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force provided Cape Canaveral facilities...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... they didn’t have a space programme. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space programme, it’ll serve us right!” The problem is that the space agencies today still have inadequate programmes for viable space defence of our planet. These...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
.... Following the lead set principally by the US, other countries around the world are starting to commercialise their space programmes, in the hope of reducing associated costs and acquiring a larger share of the rapidly expanding...
