April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...mission, pushed for by the country’s then president, Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for signs of water ice, long thought to have accumulated in the Moon’s permanently...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual space programmes undertaken in the last half century. With hindsight, the Scorpion study suggests that the late 1960s ...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...The European Commission today has many space programmes, the most important being Copernicus and Galileo, ... decision to take people with limited physical abilities to space? ESA has a diversity programme for the entire workforce and aims to be an ...
07 August 2015
NASA pays Roscosmos $490 million for ISS access even as U.S.-Russia relations at a historic low
...immediate gap. Of course SpaceX in particular is aiming to revolutionise the entire launch market – while development of the Russian space programme has hit a number of rough patches, including funding issues for the new Vostok Cosmodrome, and spotty...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... pursued defence acquisition reform for decades. Despite enacting numerous reforms, major defence acquisition programmes - particularly space programmes - generally continue to deliver behind schedule and over budget. The problem is compounded by the...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... be able to do by itself. Nevertheless, there have been calls from some within the UK for a completely ‘home-grown’ space programme, with a suggestion that the returns could be much greater than are currently obtained through participation in ESA...
