China Walks the US-India Space Solar Power Dream

While India and the US make pledges about potential collaboration on space, others walk those promises and potentials. In the India-US context, space has remained a potential area of cooperation for the last decade or so whereas China, which has studied the Indo-US joint communications carefully, has made fast progress on space-based solar power (SBSP), in terms of devoting financial and human resources into the project. The need of the hour is for democracies like India, US and may be even Japan to come together, structure large collaborations around space and capture the political space in this regard. The political leadership in both India and the US should recognise the importance of it and act accordingly before it is too late

Modi's Canberra visit : continuing the momentum

For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, explains that "there is a new outlook on bilateral relations, with a growing bipartisan support emerging in Australia for closer ties with India and New Delhi shedding its old thinking about Canberra as an appendage to Washington.

The transformation of India's space policy: from space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige

This article explores the transformation of India's space policy from a focus on space for development to the pursuit of security and prestige. India's early space programme was largely defined by a developmental rationale, aimed at addressing socio-economic challenges through space technology and applications. However, in recent years, India's space policy has undergone a significant change, as the country tries to leverage its space capabilities for strategic objectives, including enhancing its national security, achieving greater status in the global space order, and projecting its great power aspirations. This article offers a comprehensive overview of India's space programme by highlighting the country's high-profile exploration projects, the involvement of the private sector, and the use of space technology as a foreign policy tool and a source of soft power. It also analyses changing perceptions of the country's strategic environment and evolving geopolitical dynamics that have resulted in a reorientation towards the military uses of space. It also assesses the implications of this transformation for India's space programme, its relations with other space actors, and the global governance of outer space

India-Japan-U.S. trilateral dialogue gains additional traction

For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Sylvia Mishra, Senior and Junior Fellows at the Observer Research Foundation, respectively, explain that "The growing convergence of regional and global interests of the U.S., Japan, and India on issues such as Indian Ocean and the evolving Asian security order is clearly driving the trilateral dialogue.

America back to the Moon and on to Mars: Australian, Japanese and Indian perspectives

© 2020 IEEE. NASA has welcomed the participation of other space nations on its bold venture back to the Moon and then to Mars. The compressed time frame for such a complex and herculean effort calls for international collaboration. This paper probes the key questions of national significance in Australia, Japan and India with attention to public policy, internal dynamics of various agencies within the space sectors, the role of private venture, areas of proposed collaboration as well as strategic interests of the nations within the region