18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... in movies and it is not something that is likely to be needed for quite some time. However, those working in the space programme are researching ways to make terraforming possible, efficient and successful. Civil engineers are already working in the...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
...time as being made available to countries surrounding Iran). So, if Iran wanted to survive, it had to create its own space programme. The necessary development of an Iranian satellite launch capability was immediately regarded by the West as a veiled...
21 September 2016
China's first space lab is heading for a crash landing
... for "comprehensively fulfilling its historical mission,” while making important contributions to China's manned space programme. The space lab is orbiting at an average height of 370 kilometres and is currently intact, nonetheless, based on their...
29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
...Earth in a (possible) fiery extravaganza. The Tiangong-1 was China's first prototype space station that was launched in 2011 as part of the country’s ambitious space programme. Its successor – Tiangong-2 – is already in orbit and has been home to two...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
...sub-title by recording the “vestiges of the Soviet space programme”. Before the photographer, ‘Jonk’, gets to the images, he writes ...graphic and politically-informed art that ‘marketed’ the programme to the Soviet populace and the world. He ...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... author Brian Harvey is a writer on spaceflight based in Dublin, Ireland. His first book was Race into space - the Soviet space programme (Ellis Horwood, 1988), followed by further publications on the Russian, Chinese, European, Indian and Japanese...
