World Space Week: Which countries have sent people to space?
At least 746 people from 52 countries have been to space, from career astronauts to paying tourists.
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At least 746 people from 52 countries have been to space, from career astronauts to paying tourists.
Addressing students in Chittoor, A.S. Kiran Kumar calls space the “fourth frontier” after land, oceans and air, with new opportunities for students, startups and private companies
Chinese researchers have tested a new way for spacecraft to navigate in deep space, putting a concept funded by Nasa into practice and paving the way for the country’s planned mission to Jupiter in 2030. Known as stellar aberration navigation, the approach uses tiny shifts in the relative position of stars to work out how fast a probe is moving and in what direction, allowing autonomous real-time navigation without constantly relying on tracking and commands from Earth. In a low-Earth-orbit...
As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. In the first part of this two-part series, Wency Chen and Mia Nurmamat examine how Hainan province is betting on a growing aerospace cluster to rewrite its economic playbook beyond tourism. On Hainan’s northeastern coast, launch towers rise abruptly from a flat landscape of coconut palms and open sky. At Pad 1 of the commercial spaceport in Wenchang, an 83-metre (272 feet) service...
Isar Aerospace CEO and Co-Founder, Daniel Metzler, joins Bloomberg TV to discuss the European space sector. The German startup's rocket delivered satellites into orbit, marking the first private space mission to reach orbit from continental Europe. Metzler speaks about the bottlenecks of launch, and competing with the US. (Source: Bloomberg)