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The New Space Race – India v China?

January 17, 2019 @ 19:30 - 21:30 GMT

Free
  • « The Space Show – India’s Space Programme. Listen live or recording
  • India and China – A new Space Race? »

Gurbir Singh is an amateur astronomer and a writer. His first book, Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester, was published in 2011. The book races the visit of the world’s first spaceman’s visit to England with first-hand accounts from the people who saw and met him. His second book, The Indian Space Programme was published in 2017 following 6 years of research.

The first tentative steps towards a space programme started in the early 1960s in both countries and initially developed at a similar pace. Today China is way ahead of India when it comes to capability in launch vehicles, the frequency of launches, the numbers of spacecraft in orbit, lunar exploration and human spaceflight.

Both nations now have a mature space programme that underpins their respective economies, national security and the sense of presence on the international stage.  This talk will cover the achievements, capabilities and ambitions of the space programmes in India and China.  International collaboration in space programmes is a common feature between almost all nations that have a space programme but why is it absent between these two countries?

The talk is organised by the Manchester Astronomical Society and hosted by the Manchester Metropolitan University in the heart of City centre Manchester. From www.manastro.org – “Our public lectures are held in the John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street,  Manchester, in Room C0.14 (on the ground floor). If using SatNav, please use M1 5GE or M1 5GH to find the main entrance/car park of the John Dalton Building, not M15 6BH. The lectures are FREE to attend and all are welcome. Lectures start at 19.30 and finish by 21.00.Click here for more location information.”

 

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Date:
January 17, 2019
Time:
19:30 - 21:30 GMT
Cost:
Free
Website:
http://www.manastro.org/lectures.html

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Manchester Astronomical Society
Phone:
+44 (0) 161 306 4977
Email:
masenquiries@manastro.org
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Manchester Astronomical Society
M1 5GE + Google Map
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  • « The Space Show – India’s Space Programme. Listen live or recording
  • India and China – A new Space Race? »

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