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In the past 10 years, international alliances on Earth have begun to expand into space. Nations with similar interests collaborate with one another while competing with other space blocs.
If the mission goes well, private company Axiom Space will move on to building a space station.
From harming satellites to crashing the ISS, the Ukraine war could soon extend to space.
What happens to the International Space Station when tensions on Earth rise? A space policy expert explains how the ISS is run and how Russian aggression has threatened its operation in the past – and now.
The plans to destroy a space station as large as the ISS have never been carried out before.
The students produced 33 experiment vials, which were boarded on the SpaceX Crew Dragon 24 and launched in December.
How will they bring the structure back safely? And where will the surviving components crash?
A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.
NASA is backing four commercial space station projects. The newcomers may find they have much to learn about how people really live in space.
A Russian satellite has been destroyed in a missile strike, creating a vast amount of debris that joins the tens of thousands of pieces already in orbit around the Earth.
A close call for the International Space Station highlights the growing problem of space junk putting satellites at risk.
There are vast quantities of water ice on the moon that represent the potential for extraction and use in rocket fuel. But there are no practical reasons to mine this water.
As space exploration takes off, it will become increasingly important to study and understand sex, intimacy, desire and pleasure off-Earth.
China’s space programme is going from strength to strength.
In the coming decades, governments and private companies will set up permanent bases on the Moon and Mars. And at some point, the first galactic baby will be born.
China’s leading role in the new space race could have a positive effect on geopolitics and science alike.
The Tiangong space station is set to become a second long-term habitat for humans in orbit around Earth.
The first space tourist left Earth 20 years ago aboard a Russian rocket. Now, private companies like Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are offering trips to the stars for those who can pay.
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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PhD candidate, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Space Robotics and Space Technology, Carleton University
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Professor of Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Space Plasma Physicist, Imperial College London
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PhD candidate in Computational Physics, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor of art history and archaeology, Chapman University
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Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Air University
