27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... station instead, says Flight Director of the Russian Segment of the ISS, Vladimir Alekseevich Soloviev. “Until 2025, Russia has obligations to participate in the International Space Station program. There are already a number of elements that are...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
...complex orbital manoeuvres. When eventually ready, Luna-25 will become Russia’s first domestic spacecraft in its post-Soviet history to head ... be testing technology for the future joint ESA-Russia Luna Resource mission (Luna-27), slated to launch ...
December 2014
A door closes
... in 2011 and 2012 played a role; sharp differences over developments in the Middle East, especially Syria; and Russia’s offer of asylum to US National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden in 2013. But the Ukraine crisis precipitated a qualitative...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... headache for Britain when it left the Union. In effect, military space comprises three full-spectrum powers (US, Russia, China); countries with a significant military element (Japan) as well as individual European countries outside the ESA framework...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... and operations is to achieve superiority using both offensive and defensive means. Since early 2019, China and Russia have increased their in-orbit assets by 70 percent across all major categories, including communications, remote sensing, aviation...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... satellite, behaviour that Space Command Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond described at the time as "unusual and disturbing". "Russia publicly claims it is working to prevent the transformation of outer space into a battlefield, yet at the same time Moscow...
