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 ...
Forging global partnerships and building resilient societies through better coordination are among the key challenges of the twenty-first century. Given the global consequences of a near-Earth object ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NASA announces the award of 12 grants or cooperative agreements for exciting new space biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how vertebrate and invertebrate model organisms ...
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 ...
Pakorn Apaphant and Blaine Curcio speak at ASBW on June 7. Image credit: ASBW. In a region overshadowed by space industry powerhouses such as China and Japan, it has historically been easy to overlook ...
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 ...
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 ...