Shooting for the moon: The new space race
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Japan, the US’s old rivals Russia, and India all have active space programs, with national pride, national security and even commercial gain all at stake. …
The Exploration of, and Conquest of, the Moon! The Space Review
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit.
Fifty years after Sputnik became the world’s first artificial satellite, a new race is under way with the finish line [...]

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Russia warns of arms war in space: reports
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s military space commander vowed to retaliate with an arms race if any country started putting weapon systems into orbit, …
Russian Space Forces will not allow any country to play master in … Interfax Russia
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It’s been 50 years since a tiny, bleeping orb named Sputnik triggered a decades-long competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to rule the heavens. But if you thought the space race was over, think again. In this week’s List, FP looks at the five hottest contests for space dominance.
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Sputnik Documentary Provides Glimpses into Cold war Fears
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A 1958 Gallup Poll (pdf) Hoffman dug up found that “60% of Americans thought that nuclear war was imminent and that 50% of the American population would …
Secrets of 1957 Sputnik Launch Revealed ABC News
Sputnik 50 years later: Why was it first, what [...]

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Russia’s Space forces chief said Thursday that the nation would have to retaliate if others deploy weapons in space - a stern warning to the United States.
“We don’t want to wage a war in space, we don’t want to gain dominance in space, but we won’t allow any other nation nation to dominate space,” Popovkin [...]

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This is America’s great space-age paranoia: that the United States has frittered away 35 years of space superiority, and a new generation of rivals is about to shove it into second place.
China is the challenger du jour. It became the third nation to send a human into space in 2003, it put a two-man crew [...]

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That duality held firm for much of the ensuing half century. Washington publicly encouraged peaceful uses of space even while spending billions to explore futuristic weaponry like death rays fired from rocket ships.
By and large, those arms remained as fictional as those in “The war of the Worlds.” But analysts say the Bush administration is [...]

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The Russian space agency announced a plan to send a man to the moon by 2025, to establish a permanent base there a few years later, and possibly even send a man to Mars by 2035, in an aggressive plan reminiscent of the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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China’s historic first manned space mission narrowly averted disaster when ground control lost contact with the returning space capsule, China revealed for the first time Monday, four years later.
The communication blackout as the capsule re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere threatened a safe landing by astronaut Yang Liwei and forced ground control to use backup systems, Xinhua [...]

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On Jan. 11, 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile slammed into an aging weather satellite in space. The resulting collision not only marked Beijing’s first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test but, in the eyes of many, also a head-on collision with the Bush administration’s space policies.
As one analyst phrased it, U.S. policy has compelled China’s leaders [...]

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China looking skyward for a military advantage over U.S. space program.
Since then, China has traveled light years in its pursuit of the far reaches of space. In recent years, the Chinese National Space Administration has announced bold plans for a permanent space station, moon colony and Mars mission. The nation is rapidly rolling out a [...]

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When China destroyed its own satellite, outrage — and debris — rapidly encircled the globe. Was the Sat Kill a policy weapon or the start of an arms race in space?
At 5:28 PM EST on Jan. 11, 2007, a satellite arced over southern China. It was small — just 6 ft. long — a tiny [...]

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Satellite tracking software freely available on the Internet and some textbook physics could be used by any organization that can get hold of an intermediate range rocket to mount an unsophisticated attack on military or civilian satellites. Such an attack would require modest engineering capability and only a limited budget. That is according to researchers [...]

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At a recent symposium hosted in Beijing, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced plans to develop the next generation of Long March carrier rockets. CASC, which serves as the main contractor for the Chinese space program, said that the new rockets will be capable of carrying a much larger payload capacity than [...]

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Both countries are planning to launch unmanned lunar probes in less than a year.
China and India both are planning to launch moon shots within a year in the latest sign of the two Asian powerhouses’ intensifying rivalry and growing technological prowess.
Although both countries deny they are engaged in a 21st century rerun of the 1960s [...]

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China, Russia and even Japan are starting to leave us in the dust while U.S. special interest groups quibble over NASA’s faults. What happened to our national ambition? The consequences are too severe to fall behind.
Poor NASA, it can’t catch a break. The space shuttle Atlantis was due to launch three months ago when a [...]

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Not only did China design, build and launch the satellite for Nigeria, but it also provided a huge loan to help pay the bill. China has also signed a satellite contract with another big oil supplier, Venezuela. It is developing an earth observation satellite system with Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Thailand. And [...]

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Beijing- China was “losing no time” in preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang’e I, which will most likely be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here on Sunday.
“The moon probe project is the third milestone in China’s space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for [...]

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Russia and Brazil have always seen eye-to-eye on such issues as the importance of a multipolar world and the UN’s role in modern society, and this mutual understanding is a key factor in relations between the two countries in other areas, too. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that “we can cooperate in many fields, and [...]

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The fourth Beidou satellite, however, is reported to be more accurate and looks like China’s way of confirming rumors it is taking Compass global and into competition against GPS. China has previously admitted that Beidou will form the basis for Compass.
Some Western military analysts believe Beidou and its three satellites can also provide targeting information [...]

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