June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
...competitor to Vega (Europe), Taurus and Minotaur (US), and GSLV (India) – while being able to carry bigger loads. Yet the ... in the “lighter launches” category. In Russia, Europe, India, China and Japan, government-owned satellites will be launched by...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
... – ISRO Nano Satellite-1 (INS-1) weighing 8.4 kg and INS-2 weighing 9.7 kg – are technology demonstration satellites from India. The remaining 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), The Netherlands...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...: one person died and 20 others were injured, and damage was caused to property in the state of Orissa in India by a fragment of a massive meteorite; • 7 June 2006: there was an explosion in the Norwegian mountains, similar in magnitude to the atomic...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... Resources (NNR) Study show an overall trend toward increasing shortages. The upward mobility of the populations in China, India, Indonesia, and other newly industrialised countries suggests that up to three times more consumer demand for products...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
..., and some already active participants such as Russia, India, China and South Korea are becoming involved in new... in space. Whether they are veterans in space activities (China or India) or newcomers deciding to have their own EO capacities, more and ...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... the GLXP judging panel. These two leading teams were Team Indus, from India, having both a lander and a rover, and Team Hakuto, from Japan... the mission plan review for Team Indus, Bangalore, India, October 2017 We can say therefore that the process...
