Space Security Index

88 Frank Morring Jr., “India Gearing Up for Human Spaceight,” Aviation Week, 12 April
2010, online: www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/
awst/2010/04/12/AW_04_12_2010_p36-217525.xml. e article contains a good technical
description of the crew vehicle.
89 Pallava Bagla, “India Set to Launch Manned Mission, ISRO Chairman Says,” NDTV, 14
April 2010, online: www.ndtv.com/news/india/india-set-to-launch-manned-mission-says-isrochairman-20004.php.
90 JAXA, “Particles Brought Back by Hayabusa Identied as from Itokawa,” 16 November 2010,
online: www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/muses_c/index_e.html.
91 Shin-Ichiro Nishida, “JAXA’s Space Explorations Vision – Lunar and Planetary Exploration,” JAXA,
21 May 2010, online: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/les/policy/conferences_page/
workshop_3_ec_esa_20_may_2010/jaxa.pdf.
92 Jason Mick, “Japanese Robots to Take Over the Moon by 2020,” Daily Tech, 1 June 2010, online:
www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Robots+to+Take+Over+the+Moon+by+2020/article18572.htm. For
Japanese source, see: http://moriyama.com/node/2010/05/26/2889.
93 BepiColombo mission homepage, online: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.
cfm?fareaid=30.
94 Tariq Malik, “Moon Exploration is not Dead, NASA Ocial Says,” Space.com, 30 September
2010, online: www.space.com/news/nasa-says-moon-exploration-not-dead-100930.html.
95 Ibid.
96 Science Daily, “NASA’s Lunar Spacecraft Completes Exploration Mission Phase,” 16 September
2010, online: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100916090351.htm.
97 Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, “New rockets boost Russia’s space-power status,”
8 November 2010, online: http://en.rian.ru/papers/20101108/161252591.html.
98 ATO.ru, “Angara getting ready for launch,” 10 November 2009, online: www.ato.ru/content/
angara-getting-ready-launch.
99 Interfax, “Work on the Cosmodrome Vostochny will start in 2011: Roscosmos,” 7 January 2010,
online: http://rniikp.ru/ru/news/index/20100701_2.htm (in Russian); for information in English,
see Stephen Clark, “Russia plans to start cosmodrome work in 2011,” Spaceight Now, 25 August
2010, online: http://spaceightnow.com/news/n1008/25cosmodrome.
100 Interfax, “e Rocket Launcher ‘Angara’ will not be used prior to 2013,” 16 June 2010, online:
http://rniikp.ru/ru/news/index/20100716_4.htm (in Russian); for information in English, see
GlobalSecurity.org, “Angara Launch Vehicle,” 21 July 2010, online: www.globalsecurity.org/space/
world/russia/angara.htm.
101 Interfax, “By 2020 Half of the Russian Launches will be Made from Vostochny, and Only
11% from Baikonour: Roscosmos,” 13 November 2010, online: www.interfax.ru/society/news.
asp?id=164704 (in Russian); for information in English, see RIA Novosti, “Russia to Conduct Half
of Carrier Rocket Launches from Far East by 2010,” 13 November 2010, online: http://www.spacetravel.com/reports/Russia_To_Conduct_Half_Of_Carrier_Rocket_Launches_From_Far_East_
By_2020_999.html.
102 RIA Novosti, “Rocket Launcher ‘Rus’-M’: Purposes and Features. РАКЕТА-НОСИТЕЛЬ
«РУСЬ-М»: НАЗНАЧЕНИЕ И ОСОБЕННОСТИ,” 27 January 2010, online: http://rniikp.ru/
ru/news/index/20100127_4.htm (in Russian); for information in English see RIA Novosti, “Russia
to Finalise Design of Manned Spacecraft Booster in Aug. 2010,” 26 January 2010, online:
http://en.rian.ru/science/20100126/157685591.html.
103 RIA Novosti, “Energiya’ Plans to Develop a Spacecraft with Nuclear Power Engine,” 23 November
2010, online: www.rian.ru/science/20101123/299877051-print.html (in Russian); for information
in English see RIA Novosti, “Russia to Start Work on Nuclear Space Engine Next Year,” 23
November 2010, online: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101123/161461317.html.
104 Anatoly Zak, “China considers big rocket power,” BBC, 26 July 2010, online: www.bbc.co.uk/
news/science-environment-10762634.
105 Ibid.
106 Ibid.
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