See full analysis Learn more Space [New] With thousands more satellites needed to meet global coverage and bandwidth demands, SpaceX is expected to fly dozens of Starlink missions in the coming years. [New] NASA's renewed efforts to return humans to the moon by 2024 has led to advances in new space technologies to improve processes, and reduce costs and development time. [New] NASA has in the past decade relied on private companies to build and operate spacecraft that could ferry cargo, and now people, to the International Space Station. [New] With only days left in the year, climate scientists are poring over global temperature data, trying to determine if 2020 will surpass 2016 as the planet's warmest year on record. [New] Starting in 2022, SpaceX will launch a number of satellites for the Pentagon's space agency, known as the Space Development Agency. [New] SpaceX will send three Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2021, including the first fully private mission for Axiom Space aboard Resilience in October. [New] In early 2021, Rocket Lab will launch another recovery mission, opening up a new era of possibility for satellites in orbit. [New] Several small-satellite launch companies hope to reach orbit in the coming year, including Firefly Aerospace, Relativity Space and Virgin Orbit. [New] In the coming 15 years, Kuwait is expected to gradually drift down the World Economic League Table, from 60th position in 2020 to 61st place in 2035. [New] The National Space Plan for 2020-2025 represents the Czech Republic's strategy to further develop space related technologies in industry and academia and to play a more active and visible role within the international community in space and related areas. [New] While SN8 was simply a prototype never intended to fly to space, the core stage at Stennis is flight hardware that NASA will use for the Artemis 1 mission in late 2021. [New] The Space Development Agency set a goal to launch Tranche 0 satellites in late 2022. [New] We will likely see Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations beginning to offer residential and business broadband to UK consumers, at the earliest during 2021. China will begin construction of its new space station in 2021, with the Tianhe module planned to enter Earth orbit in the first half of the year. After several successful moon missions, 2021 will be the year when China starts building its own space station, dubbed Tiangong, or Sky Palace. Reliance-BP is investing USD 5 billion in bringing to production three deepwater gas projects in block KG-D6 R-Cluster, Satellites Cluster, and MJ which together are expected to meet about 15% of India's gas demand by 2023. In the coming 15 years, Botswana is expected to gradually drift down the World Economic League Table, from 119th position in 2020 to 123rd place in 2035. Between 2020 and 2035, Azerbaijan is forecast to move from 89th place to 96th place in the World Economic League Table. The current plan to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024 could be disrupted if the SLS program fails to deliver on time. RIL and BP are developing three deepwater gas projects in block KG D6 - R Cluster, Satellites Cluster and MJ - which together are expected to meet ~15% of India's gas demand by 2023. SpaceX could send its first uncrewed spacecraft to Mars by 2022, with astronauts flying to the red planet within the next four to six years. By 2050-the year when a growing list of nations aim to have zeroed out their contributions to climate change - the UN projects the global population will be 9.7 billion, on its way to topping out at 11 billion in 2100. Over the next 50 years the earth will most likely heat up to levels that will make whole parts of the planet uninhabitable. Last updated: 10 January 2021 Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No