September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... destroyed and about 2000 additional pieces of trackable debris were added to LEO. Most recently, on 27 March 2019, India conducted an ASAT test (known as Mission Shakti) on a 740 kg Earth observation satellite called Microsat-R, which added at least...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... and Russia; European countries, primarily through the European Space Agency (ESA); China, Japan, Canada and India. Emerging space programmes, such as those developed by the UAE and South Korea, are also engaging in the...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... other nations could challenge US supremacy in space. It is true that the military threats to space have indeed increased as India, Russia, and China have all tested ASAT systems over this period. However, since 2010 it has...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...Union (EU) is developing its own GNSS called Galileo. India has also developed a seven-satellite regional satellite navigation system...and the GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) of India which covers Asia. With satellite-based systems in place,...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...viewed by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter. The water ice, now also confirmed... Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for ...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... and the pursuit of industrial modernisation. Sensitive rocket and satellite technologies have long since spread to Europe, India and Japan, despite initial US technology controls. Many states have sought to join the ‘Space Club’ of international...
