More: Space
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...
Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development
Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in their efforts to contain...