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January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... and allied government spending on space to remain robust in the coming years, driven by a new space race and rising geopolitical tension. A study by the US Defense Innovation Unit, Space Force and Air Force warns that...domain with the US, NATO and others standing up space forces and growing budgets to invest in new technology innovations. This article provides an overview of the US Space Force’s mission priorities and areas of technology interest...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
When most people think of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes...carried out by world governments. Many do not realise that our very way of life depends on space. Space has transformed how we communicate, navigate, produce food and energy, and conduct banking, growing our economy...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... value of more than US$100 trillion. New space race Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ... of ‘the mankind provisions’ has thus reached an impasse and, according to former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, Prof Joanne Gabrynowitz, it is “now primarily a political problem and... therefore, only subject to ...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... which will inevitably raise issues related to the child-bearing potential of humans in space. This article reviews what is known about embryology from early spaceflight experiments and outlines possible avenues for... also medical issues, which means that including medical specialists on long-term space missions is a key prerequisite. Ultimately, if the human race is to resettle itself elsewhere in the universe, research into maintaining fertility ...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... year, from educators and students wanting to pursue understanding and knowledge of the new space race, seeking opportunities and trajectories for involvement as they dream into their college careers and...is a Material Control Analyst for a Colorado aerospace company. He volunteers for numerous space organisations and is on the National Space Society’s Space Ambassador Committee. He is an additive manufacturing mentor for summer interns, and a ...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... looking at what the future may hold for Chinese international space cooperation. In recent years, space has captured the imagination in a way not seen since the original space race of the 1960s. The rush of money and talent into... the space sector has led to companies and space agencies doing amazing things that could not even...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...her most influential work, The Human Condition. In this article, engineer and author Guerric de Crombrugghe questions the meaning and value of our current space ambitions to humankind and suggests that we need to ...It leads to the creation of at least five start-up ventures aiming to set up a space-based broadcast backbone for blockchains. It is a space race without a real end-goal, leading to the unreasonable use of precious resources, from the ...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...to accompany any number of avid fans, children and fanatic space enthusiasts through future space progressions. Although some might argue that the Cold War space race is now over (and some might not), the competitive nature... of state-based innovation in space technology is alive and well. Most space activity in contemporary society is based around...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... first to the Moon after the USSR and USA (1990) and which won the ‘great Asian space race’ against China and India (2007), effectively abandoned its lunar programme for the time being. The... when Shijian 21 removed an old Beidou navigation satellite. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible A more recent development is trailing other countries...
