https://spacewatch.global/tag/soviet-union/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:46:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/soviet-union/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/ukraine-passes-commercial-space-law-allowing-private-space-activities-in-2020/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 06:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17090 The Ukrainian parliament passed the country’s first commercial space law, titled “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the State Regulation of Space Activities,” that was signed on 25 October 2019 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Oleksiy Burchevskyy of the Kinstellar law firm writing in Lexology.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/spacewatchgl-oped-india-destroys-its-own-satellite-with-a-test-missile-still-says-space-is-for-peace/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 08:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13370 On March 27, India announced it had successfully conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test, called “Mission Shakti”. After the United States, Russia and China, India is now the fourth country in the world to have demonstrated this capability.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/space-wars-india-successfully-tests-anti-satellite-weapon-in-mission-shakti/ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13252 India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the country's first anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test against an out-of-service Indian satellite orbiting the Earth at 300 kilometres altitude on Wednesday, 27 March 2019, at 11.16 am Indian Time.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/spacewatchgl-feature-southeast-asian-space-programmes-capabilities-challenges-and-collaborations/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:00:02 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13008 By Nandini Sarma - In many parts of the world, space technology is being used to improve people’s lives. Apart from their uses for everyday services like weather forecasting, long-distance communications, and GPS systems, the manifold applications of space technology assist in many other ways. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/02/russia-and-france-celebrate-historic-space-cooperation-ties/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:00:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12698 The head of the French national space agency, the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), Jean-Yves Le Gall, spoke at the French-Russian seminar organized by GIFAS, the French aerospace industries association, at the Espace Hamelin in Paris on 30 January 2019.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/indian-space-exploration-chandrayaan-2-lunar-mission-launch-expected-in-april-2019/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12352 India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, will be attempted in mid-April 2019, a senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said on 11 January 2019. Chandrayaan-2 will comprise a lander and a lunar rover.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/syria-seeks-to-build-satellite-establish-a-space-programme/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11931 The Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology, Iyad Khatib, has stated the need for Syria to develop a space programme and launch its first satellite into orbit, the ministry said on 11 December 2018, according to Russian news outlet Sputnik International.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/india-and-japan-to-hold-first-space-dialogue-in-march-2019/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11884 India and Japan have scheduled their first annual bilateral space dialogue in March 2019, where they will discuss cooperation and coordination on a range of civil and national security space issues, ranging from space-based maritime domain awareness and satellite reconnaissance through to the harmonization of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems and space exploration, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/russias-space-crisis-roscosmos-spends-billions-on-space-but-kopecks-on-engineering-talent/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11874 The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos has been accused by a Russian journalist of spending "billions on space but kopecks" on the engineering talent required for the sustainable and long-term success of Russia's space ambitions.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/russia-to-set-up-ssa-observatories-along-arctic-ocean-coast/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11255 Russian scientists, with the support of the Russian government, intend to place a number of ground-based observatories in the Nenets Autonomous Region on Russia's Northwest Arctic Ocean coast for the purposes of providing space situational awareness (SSA) of satellites and space debris in Polar orbits as the pass over the Arctic region, according to a report published on 7 November 2018 by the Russian news agency, TASS.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/07/israel-to-be-fourth-country-on-the-moon-in-2019-thanks-to-spaceil/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9423 Israel’s SpaceIL has announced that it will launch its Moon probe on a SpaceX launch vehicle, to land in February 2019. If successful, the SpaceIL lunar mission will make Israel the fourth-ever country to land on the Moon, after the Soviet Union, U.S., and China.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/kazakhstans-space-ambitions-hostage-russian-space-launchers-baikonur/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 04:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8163 https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/issues-challenges-russian-space-industry-part-ii/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7918 https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/issues-challenges-russian-space-industry-part/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 05:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7903 In part one of a three-part feature, Vitaly Egorov describes Russia’s modern posture in space and the challenges and possible ways of development of the national space industry. This first part explains how the country that used to be first so many times when it comes to space exploration has reached its current state.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/russia-send-unmanned-mission-mars-2019-according-vladimir-putin/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:00:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7824 In what might be an election ploy or a signal of a growing space race, President Vladimir Putin announced plans for Russia to go to Mars in 2019 despite funding difficulties and a poor Russian track record for Martian exploration. Plans for this Mars mission come after 15 unsuccessful and 2 partially successful missions undertaken […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/kyrgyzstan-media-group-start-cubesat-programme-promote-womens-rights/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7803 A media collective called Kloop Media in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central Asia, has started a Cubesat programme exclusively for Kyrgyz girls and women. Kloop Media started the programme in an effort to address widespread discrimination, misogyny, and even physical abuse against women in Kyrgyzstan by raising awareness and demonstrating the skills, intelligence, […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-chinas-space-silk-road-middle-east-indian-perspective/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5430 In Part Four of the SpaceWatch Middle East multi-week theme on China’s Space Silk Road and the Middle East, Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi, India, offers an Indian perspective on China’s Space Silk Road, and points out that despite the rhetoric from Beijing, the Space Silk Road should […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/brics-space-science-cooperation/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 07:00:51 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4037 This story is republished with the kind permission of the editors of The BRICS Post, where it was originally published on April 6, 2017. BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are looking to build space science cooperation as the bloc seeks a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry. “BRICS countries […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/10/grow-want-astronaut-toowhy-iran-nasa-will-not-cooperating-anytime-soon/ Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:00:43 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=1672 Recent press reports quote the head of the Iranian Space Agency, Mohsen Bahrami, as saying that he would like to see Iran cooperate with the American space agency, NASA. ThorGroup’s Chairman and President, Dr. John B. Sheldon, argues that while Mr. Bahrami’s sentiments are noble, political realities mean space cooperation between Tehran and Washington, DC, […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/09/iac-2016-uae-space-agency-joins-international-astronautical-federation/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:30:30 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=1609 The UAE Space Agency has been inducted into the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) during the 2016 International Astronautical Congress being held in Guadalajara, Mexico, held 26-30 September 2016. The IAF is a non-profit non-governmental organisation set up in 1951 under French law. Its structure is laid out in the IAF constitution that defines the IAF […]]]>