More: Space
Cyber ASAT-Capabilities and South Asia
Since the launch of first satellite in 1957, humanity is using outer space for the purpose of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, communication, monitoring, global positioning...
India and outer space ambition: First crewed mission in 2021 and geopolitics involvements
The Indian outer space programme has achieved an extraordinary progress in the last decade.
The country is already known as the “bright spot” of the...
The Israeli military satellite Ofek-16
On July 6, at 4 a.m., the Israeli Aerospace Agency and Israel Aerospace Industries launched the Ofek-16satellite ("Orpheus") from the Palmachim air base, almost...
The Artemis Accords: Repeating the Mistakes of the Age of Exploration
“Space is a warfighting domain. . . . It is not enough to have an American presence in space; we must have American dominance...
Preparing For The Next Round Of Belligerent Nationalism
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...
Outer Space Diplomacy in South Asia
Recent SAARC Video Conference meets by the leaders of
SAARC nations opens a new hope for this regional Organisation. The remark made
by the Afghanistan President...
Trump’s “Space Force”: A Predictable Future of War and Chaos
On December
20, 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization
Act, creating the newest military service since the US Air Force was
established in...
Chandrayaan-2 was really a failure, but for whom?
Before leaving Pakistan I had written an article
“India’s Space Diplomacy in 2017: Where Pakistan Is Standing?” published in Weekly
Technology Times. In that article I...
NATO’s “space strategy”: What is it all about?
In a Twitter post released in June 2019, NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg said that the North Atlantic Alliance planned to develop its own
“space strategy.”...
India’s Space Program and Deterrence Stability of South Asia
Outer space has become a key component of
military power projection for the world’s major powers. The weaponization of
outer space is also a global tragedy...