Space Security Index

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107 Xin Dingding, “New carrier rocket series to be built,” China Daily, 31 October 2007, online:
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/31/content_6217880.htm.
108 See the critique of the decision in Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, “New Space Policy Cedes Moon to
China, Space Station to Russia, and Liberty to the Ages,” Space Talk Now, 6 February 2010,
online: http://spacetalknow.org/wordpress/?p=1568&cpage=1.
109 See, for example, information from NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo Oce: online:
www.nasa.gov/oces/c3po/home/index.html.
110 For further details on the content and implications of the NSP, please see Chapter 3.
111 Planck telescope homepage, online: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=17.
112 John Travis, “Planck Satellite's First View of Universe,” Science Magazine, 5 July 2010, online:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/07/scienceshot-planck-satellites-.html.
113 Ibid.
114 Picard satellite launched in June 2010 by Russians. Online: http://smsc.cnes.fr/PICARD/index.htm.
115 Stephen Clark, “French Sun Satellite and Swedish Experiment Blast O on Russian Rocket,” Space.
com, 15 June 2010, online: www.space.com/8608-french-sun-satellite-swedish-experiment-blastrussian-rocket.html.
116 Ibid.
117 Ariel Schwartz, First UN Satellite Hopes to Turn Astronaut Poop into Power Supply (November
16, 2010). Online: http://www.fastcompany.com/1703225/rst-un-satellite-will-evaluate-bacteriathat-can-turn-feces-into-energy.
118 Mark Brown, Satellite to Explore Astronaut Poop as Fuel Source. Wired UK (November 18, 2010).
Online: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/astronoaut-poop-fuel.
119 Royal Observatory of Belgium, “NASA ‘Solar Dynamics Observatory’ will be launched on February
10,” online: http://sidc.oma.be/news/123/SDO_Eng.pdf.
120 See details of the mission online: http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html.
121 JAXA, “IKAROS Project,” online: www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html.
122 Ibid.
123 JAXA, Press release to all supporters of AKATSUKI project, 24 December 2010, online:
www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/index_e.html.
124 Interfax, “Four Small Russian Satellites will do Environmental Science in the Near Earth Orbit,” 30
June 2010, online: http://rniikp.ru/ru/news/index/20100630_3.htm (in Russian); for information
in English, see A. Zak, “Dicult rebirth for Russian Space Science,” BBC News, 28 June 2010,
online: www.bbc.co.uk/news/10414237.
125 Alexander Grankov and Aleksander Mishin, Microwave Radiation of the Ocean-Atmosphere: Boundary
Heat and Dynamic Interaction (Springer, 2009) at 141. Its launch was postponed to March and that
of Spektr-R to May 2011. Online: http://forum.nasaspaceight.com/index.php?topic=1133.1335.
126 Anatoly Zak, “A Russian Return to a Martian Moon,” IEEE Spectrum, June 2009, online:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/robotic-exploration/a-russian-return-to-a-martian-moon.
127 Je Foust, “Space Challenges for 2011,” e Space Review, 3 January, 2011, online:
www.thespacereview.com/article/1752/1.
128 Joel Achenbach, “NASA budget for 2011 eliminates funds for manned lunar missions,”
e Washington Post, 1 February 2010, online: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101058.html.
129 Jason Rhian, “President Signs NASA 2010 Authorisation Act,” Universe Today, 11 October 2010,
online: www.universetoday.com/75522/president-signs-nasa-2010-authorization-act. For the details
see NASA website: www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html. For critique of the budget see Nancy
Atkinson, “NASA Budget Uncertainties Will Continue Well into 2011,” Universe Today, 22
December 2010, online: www.universetoday.com/81883/nasa-budget-uncertainties-will-continuewell-into-2011.
130 Interfax, “Modernisation of the Russian Space Industry Takes up One Fifth of the Budget: Head of
Roscosmos,” 20 July 2010, online: http://rniikp.ru/ru/news/index/20100720_5.htm (in Russian).