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Joint Space Agency

Sodalitas Cosmos Agencia (latin)
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Abbreviation	SCA (latin)
Formation	1 August 1968 (1968-08-01)
Type	Space agency Aeronautics research agency
Headquarters	Thessalona, Belfras
Membership	Member states: Alanahr Arthurista Belfras Garima Ghant Gristol-Serkonos Latium Lihnidos Lion's Rock Lyncanestria Mniohuta Onekawa-Nukanoa Orun Redisus Sante Reze Vannois Velikoslavia Yisrael
Official languages	latin (official)
Director-General	Deckard Gleise
Deputy Director-General	XXXX

The Joint Space Agency is a multinational confederation of national space agencies and private corporations dedicated to the exploration of space. It began it's life as the continuation of the joint Belfrasian, Latium, and Sante Reze space cooperation agreement which had already adopted the usage of XXXX space center in Sante Reze. The Joint Space Agency, when it was founded, operated the lunar and space station programs of these three nations with a council of administrators and executives handling it's organisation and execution of it's duties. It's expansion since it's creation has seen it become a true multinational organisation that leads programs such as Unity Space Station and was responsible for the first lunar base. It's primary spaceport is the Eporte KeParaguasure Okeere (EKPO) (International Port of Paraguasurun) located in Sante Reze. JSA also conducts space launches at the Cape Castille Space Centre located in Gristol-Serkonos for satellites going into polar orbit. It previously operated from Galileo Space Center in Belfras until it was closed in 1972.

History

Creation

In 1954 the Space Technologies and Aeronautical Research in Belfras and Cursus Astrum (CA) in Latium began to cooperate in ventures for space exploration, building on supersonic rocket plane research by Belfras that was spurred on by the Social War and aggressions with northern Elatia. Operating from the Galileo Space Center in southern Belfras, both STAR and ISCIO conducted one of the first manned spaceflights and eventually began the Centaur project, focused on developing spaceflight technologies and proving techniques such as rendezvous, orbital manoeuvring and docking. During the lifetime of Centaur, the nearby Kimiyye Hendreri Ofurufu Populeris (KHOP), the Sante Reze space agency, began cooperating with both STAR and ISCIO in technology sharing and, eventually, a move to share resources, personnel and conduct launches under a short-lived Confederation.

In 1965 the three agencies were proceeding with early phases of a larger program that would allow great advances in both capabilities whilst in orbit and the distinct, looming possibility of a moon landing enabling the national agencies to secure further funding from their governments. The program, eventually !Apollo showed immediate promise and drew interest from a number of other agencies, such as the Arthuristan Commonwealth Aerospace Bureau, or CAB. With the approval of the first manned launch of the !Apollo program, the agencies decided that a central body that would pool their resources into a common agency, run by scientists and astronauts with all political devices kept with the Ministerial Council. This concept resulted in the August 1, 1968 agreement signed first by Belfras, Latium and Sante Reze to formulate the Joint Space Agency in its current form. Two months later on 14 October the third signatory, Arthurista, joined the JSA.

Foundational Human Spaceflight

During it's creation, the joint Space Agency was already engaged in the first steps of human spaceflight, with it's predecessor being responsible for the first human spaceflight at Galileo Space Center conducted by both the Belfrasian, Latin and Reze agencies.

Project Diocles

Diocles 02 'Firebird' in flight

Project Archytas

The third Archytas-Tutso on the launchpad

In 1959 the three founding nations of the JSA, having cooperated previously on Project Diocles pooled their spaceflight funds together to form the makings of Project Archytas and began fielding many proposals for crewed spacecraft designs. Designs, such as a rocket plane on the same design pattern as the Diocles or a plane-launched missile with a capsule were considered. Eventually, an early concept for an intercontinental ballistic missile - the Tutso - was accepted with a smaller rocket, the Kyros, being utilised in the 1961 first flight of the Archytas-Kyros that proved the spacecraft's abilities in a suborbital test. After the flight it was decided that an area in Sante Reze would be chosen for operations at a later date, with flights continuing from Galileo in the meantime.

Flights utilising the Archytas-Kyros continued until 1963 and concluded with the first launch of the Archytas-Tutso that successfully placed XXXX into a four-hour orbit of the Earth, making him the first human in space. The success of this spaceflight quickly spurred the approval of five following Archytas-Kyros flights that tested orbital manoeuvring and improved accuracy of landing zones and reentry patterns. This research was crucial to the foundation of Project Centaur, the project that began the sparks of the JSA's birth. In the time of Archytas, the space agencies of Belfras, Latium and Sante Reze proved that the launch of a man into space and his safe landing to an area predetermined prior to launch and, if needed, during flight. These objectives allowed XXXX to become the first man in space on his four hour flight. A reaction control failure on Archytas-Tutso Three proved the necessity for redundancies on control valves, which was carried over into the following Project Centaur.

Project Centaur

Launch of Centaur 6 in 1966

Project Selene (1968-2004)

Launch of Selene XIV, 1976

As the cooperation between nations within the Joint Space Agency grew it was becoming more evident that a truly unilateral project was required.

Current members

The Space Council, the governing body of the JSA, meeting in 2018.

Membership in the JSA is split into two categories. Full members are states or entities which provide the balance of the JSA's funding, technology or personnel (or, in the case of Sante Reze and Gristol-Serkonos, the provision of launch sites). Associate membership entails a lesser level of commitment and these members participate in the JSA in a more ad hoc or occasional basis. Only full members participate in executive decision-making for the Agency as a whole, although associate members which participate in specific missions may have significant influence in relation to those missions.

Member state, or source	JSA convention	National programme
Full Member States
Alanahr	TBD	TBD
Arthurista	14 October 1968	CAB
Belfras	1 August 1968	STAR
Garima	TBD	TBD
Ghant	TBD	TBD
Gristol-Serkonos	20 October 1971	SARA
Latium	1 August 1968	CA
Lihnidos	TBD	TBD
Lion's Rock	TBD	TBD
Lyncanestria	TBD	TBD
Mniohuta	TBD	TBD
Onekawa-Nukanoa	TBD	TBD
Orun Redisus	6 October 1978	NARA
Sante Reze	1 August 1968	KHOP
Vannois	TBD	TBD
Velikoslavia	8 April 1972	DARD
Yisrael	TBD	TBD
Associate Members
Enyama	TBD	TBD
Garza	TBD	TBD
Template:Country data Sudmark	TBD	TBD
Talakh	TBD	TBD

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