CNSA Director Zhang Kejian with ESA Director Josef Aschbacher in June 2023. Image credit: CNSA. China’s lunar program has rapidly evolved into one of the world’s most comprehensive and impressive. As ...
August 2022 satellite image of the UK. Image credit: ESA. Last month, the UK government launched the Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF), a £50 million ($63.81 million) pilot initiative to ...
If I may start with a tired, but extremely true pun: covering the Chinese space industry inevitably involves a lot of reading of tea leaves. Speeches and press releases are full of party jargon. The ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) submits this letter in response to the amendment (SAT-AMD-20210818-00105) filed by Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX) for a ...
Not long after the rapid acceleration of Starlink launches around the end of 2019/beginning of 2020, we began to see the early stages of a Chinese response, via a number of different broadband ...
Rendering of a lunar base camp. Image credit: NASA. Cislune, a technology lab working to accelerate the timeline of placing humanity back on the Moon, took home four big wins this year in the form of ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...
Shenzhen is a city that holds a special place in my heart. Having spent around six years of my life in Mainland China, around five of them were in the southern metropolis just across the border from ...
The Biden administration and the Air Force have decided to keep Space Command Headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, reversing a Trump administration decision to move ...
Rendering of “G60 Starlink” Industrial Base. Image credit: ChinaNews.com / Yangtse. For some time, we have been hearing public statements from Chinese decision-makers regarding the country’s LEO ...
Rendering of the MBR Explorer, the spacecraft to be used in the United Arab Emirates space agency’s upcoming scientific mission to the asteroid belt. Image credit: UAE Space Agency. The first multiple ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Space Force (USSF), through this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), affirm a strong interest in continuing their ...