Focus on sustainable life in space

                       
                           OHB Venture Capital and LuxSpace establish company in Luxembourg
                                           to develop new life science products and services
                                                                 for space and Earth use.

                                                   Link to: Press Release of 4th April 2017

The new rivals: Musk versus Roscosmos

                                       
                                         The Kremlin, too, is keeping an eye on Elon.

                                                  Link to: TASS Science and Space
                                                       Link to: The Moscow Times

The Federation strikes back

                                              As the new space race era has begun,
                                                          Russia means business
                                                and is determined not to lag behind.

                                      Link to: Article in "Russia Beyond The Headlines"

                            Link to: CHRONICLE OF SOVIET-RUSSIAN SPACE PROGRAM

First Japanese partner for Luxembourg space venture

                           
                              The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and ispace (http://ispace-inc.com),
                                            a Tokyo-based lunar robotic exploration company,
                                                       sign Memorandum of Understanding
                                         to co-operate within the SpaceResources.lu initiative.

                                             Link to: Luxembourg Government press release

                                             Link to: Related job advertisement by ispace-inc.

"The dawning of the age of Aquarius?"

               
                     New Earth-size planets found in a habitable zone only 235 trillion miles away

                                                     Link to: NASA Telescope Reveals

Union Jack's beanstalk into outer space

                 
                                                         Britannia is obviously keen
                                                            on having her fair share
                                                          of golden space eggs, too.

                         Link to: Government announces boost for UK commercial space sector

                               Link to: Launch UK brings together UK commercial space sector

Can one bank on ASTERANK ?

                                                          Asterank, which defines itself as
                                " a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids",
                               appears to be as scientifically sound as can currently be expected
                                                    and is consequently not to be dismissed
                                            as some kind of cleverly presented student prank.

                                                (Even so, potential investors in space mining
                                                    are likely to take it all with a grain of salt.)

                                                                  Link to: ASTERANK

                                                Link to: JPL Small-Body Database Browser