Image: Space War By Staff Writers for Launchspace, Published in Space War, 26 February 2021 Bethesda MD (SPX) - A new arms race is unfolding among spacefaring nations. Space experts have been telling us about contested space for the last several years. The number of active satellites is exploding from
By Staff Writers, Published by Spacewar, 26 February 2021 Washington DC (AFNS) - Because of its small size and high dependency on advanced technology, the US Space Force is perhaps better positioned than any branch of the US military to become a cash-cow for private industry. A top US Space
By Karl Grossman, Published in Fair, 25 February 2021 ABC (2/22/21) had one of many reports that celebrated the Mars landing without noting that the rover was powered by plutonium—or the risks NASA had taken in launching that payload into space. With all the media hoopla last week about the
By Karl Grossman, Published by Free Press, 24 February 2021 With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances—and nowhere in media that NASA projected 1-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released
By Brandi Vncent, Published by Defense One, 23 February, 2021 The U.S. military moved to explore next-generation networking capabilities and tools that could advance how it moves vast volumes of data on and beyond planet Earth. Space Force officials and others in the Air Force office responsible for enterprise data
Published by the washingtontime 21 February 2021 “Top Gun” fighter pilots have been selected for training missions aimed at combating Chinese and Russian military and communication satellites in times of war. Simulated exercises are set to get under way before flying training exercises take place. Training flights without missiles would
By Paul McLeary, Published in Breaking Defense, 18 February 2021 There have been questions about the Biden Administration's missile defense plan; some of those may be answered in coming weeks WASHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to take a big step in its long and costly effort to build a new
An illustration of a laser infrared crosslink on a CubeSat NASA By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 18 February, 2021 The Pentagon has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of communications satellites in the years ahead. But getting them to talk to one another isn’t easy. Satellites that use lasers
