April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
..., in 1973 – exactly half a century ago. Of course, in those days, any space-related achievements in Azerbaijan were subsumed within the overall Soviet space programme. Indeed, long-term ‘space watchers’ may remember the name of Musa Manarov, the Baku...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... substantiated the leading role of sovereign states in the exploration and exploitation of space. However, economic instability resulted in a sharp reduction in government funding of space programmes and brought to the fore, on the one hand, the need...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... to future innovations. Akey part of the financial solution for a commercial space programme – beyond funding mechanisms for developing, building and operating the system – is space insurance, which acts in a similar way to other, more familiar types...
01 January 2020
To Mars with Love
The past few years have seen an increase in the number of books on the careers of women involved in various space programmes, and not before time; this is an account of one young woman’s involvement in the Viking ‘Labeled Release’ experiment on ...
29 March 2018
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite
... an empty page was very hard”, he says. Nevertheless, he succeeded and this book is both a record of a fascinating space programme and a tribute to the people at the Perkin Elmer Corporation who worked on it (Appendix F even includes a list of names...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... missions under an agreement signed (23 July 2021) with the European Commission. Copernicus is a component of the European Union space programme and focusses on looking at Earth and its environment for the benefit of all European citizens. It offers...
