June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... to be restructured with a top administrator assigned the task of planetary defence against cosmic hazards, and if military space programmes were similarly restructured, then more rapid progress could be made in this crucial area. For instance, these...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...The VLS-1 was one of the main objectives of the Brazilian space programme. Another important project was the development of a launch site, ... VLS accident was a major setback to Brazil’s space programme. The rocket exploded on its launch pad, killing...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... focus of the Accords is transparency. The OST does provide a few requirements here, but too many civil space programmes around the world are opaque and secretive about their activities. Building on longstanding NASA, European, Japanese...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
.... In 2002, he started working as a development programme manager, in particular in space applications. In 2007, he became space department manager in charge of space programmes. Since 2018, he has been space business development manager in charge...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and income will provide the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... has been published on the Indian space programme, so this personal history is a welcome addition to the ‘space library’. The book is the story of an “award-winning senior scientist” involved with the programme “from its very inception”. Aravamudan...
