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New Space Sustainability Rating Addresses Space Debris with Mission Certification System
In early 2022, space organizations will be able to give their missions, including satellite launches and crewed missions, certifications for sustainability with the finalization...
China lands on Mars
At 7:18 a.m. on May 15, 2021, the Tianwen-1 space mission entered Mars’ atmosphere and successfully landed in the planned area (Utopia Planitia) while...
Stronger together: Moving from space exploration to nuclear utilities
Authors: Zamira Sadykova and Gao Tian-ya*
It seems uneasy to term the current Sino-Russian strategic partnership in light of the conventional concept. Although both sides...
Elon Musk’s “City-State” on Mars: An International Problem
The private space industry is booming with companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic all designing spacecraft to transport people into the cosmos....
The Coming Satellite Revolution: New Business Opportunities, Scenarios, and Threats
With tens of thousands of satellites to be put into orbit in the next few years, a playfield that has seen just a handful...
China aims to be a major player in the “celestial domain-space”
Authors: Gao Tian-ya and Wang Li
Finally after seven-decade of earnest struggle, China on April 29 successfully sent into space the core module of its...
Goodbye, the ISS: Russia plans to withdraw from the International Space Station
On April, 18, 2021, Russia announced its plans on withdrawing from the International Space Station in 2025. According to Rossiya 1 TV channel, Russian...
US must oppose space ambitions of China and Russia
Russia’s space agency Roskosmos has signed the long-awaited agreement of cooperation with its colleagues from the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). The agreement intends to establish...
Conquering the Emptiness: A New Stage in the Militarization of Outer Space
In recent years, we have seen a spike in interest in space exploration: revolutionary developments in the space launch services market; new satellite services...
China’s conquest of space
Manned cosmic flight is the most technologically complex and difficult aerospace project in the world. It represents a country's strength in science, technology and...