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Australia's first space commander has admitted that the country lags in the rising military arena, saying that China and Russia's ability to shoot down satellites "scares" her.
But experts warn again accelerating ‘an upward spiral towards a less stable and more risky space environment’ as logo unveiled
Space has become a strategic domain of equal importance to cyberspace, with similar governance and regulatory challenges. Australia and similar middle powers have an enormously important role to play as we move into a 21st century space age.
On 11 July, billionaire Richard Branson joined Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed test flight to space. Billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon follow suit on the first Blue Origin crewed flight on 20 July. ASPI’s Malcolm Davis talks with Cassandra Steer from the ANU Institute of Space and the ANU College of Law about the new era for space tourism and its potential implications. The arrest of former South African president Jacob Zuma sparked mass unrest in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. ASPI research intern Khwezi Nkwanyana speaks to Ibrahim Abraham from the Australian National Un...
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company, Blue Origin, has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder. Blue Origin and its two greatest competitors in the “space tourism” field, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, claim to be advancing humanity through the “democratisation” of space. But these joyrides aren’t opening up access to space for all. At face value, the prospect of a space tourism industry is exciting. It promises an easier path to space than the one followed by astronauts, who must go through higher education, intense training and extr...