February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, most actors in outer space, space agencies and commercial satellite ... another battlefield. This risk was high during the Cold War but both the Soviet Union and the USA decided that...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
...’, but are the political prejudices of the new cold war triumphing over reality? There is no doubt that the Russian...became the norm - something that had never happened during the Cold War from the 1960s to 1980s, nor even in Germany in the 1930s...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... made the initial investments in space exploration as part of their Cold War Space Race. But now the children of those times have stepped up... around. We have always known this. The tug of war between the forces of accumulated wealth and power as they ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... to interference. Space has become a contested and potentially war fighting domain with the US, NATO and others standing up... that they view space as a requirement for winning modern wars. Under President Xi Jingping, China has designated space as...
16 March 2018
Trump suggests creating a Space Force to fight in space
... primed to deal with potential conflict in space. “The new National Strategy for Space recognises that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea," said Trump. ”We may even have a Space...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... space’ came from an unexpected direction. Who indeed could have foreseen that the competition born of Cold War that carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This...
