July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...NASA is contracting commercial services, relying on private industry to design and provide the bulk of exploration hardware. The United States and its partners are not likely to be the only ones in the neighbourhood, as other countries, such as China...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... purposes. The two original full-spectrum military space powers were the Soviet Union and the United States. ‘Full spectrum’ essentially comprises satellites for: Optical photo-reconnaissance, generally focussed on land Radar-based reconnaissance...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...a bilateral level between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, most actors in outer space,... use of force in outer space despite it being clear that the United States and many of its allies are not ready to even discuss such...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
...mined in space. It has become clear, therefore, that the United States does not view space as a “global commons” and sees a...be used exclusively for peaceful purposes. According to the United States the OST doesn’t talk of appropriation of assets found...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... the International Space Station (ISS), which was designed and operated by a partnership of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada, the United States made it plain from the start that this was an American design and operation...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... why he believes this recipe, far from promising success, is a ‘witches brew’ that President Trump, and the United States, should avoid at all costs. Just over 50 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Americans working together as a great nation...
