U.S. soldiers walk past damage at a site of Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad Air Base, in Anbar, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. (Qassim Abdul-Zahra/AP) by Natahn Strout, Published in C4ISRNET, 2 March 2021 WASHINGTON — Iran used commercial satellite images to monitor Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq as it
Two CubeSats, part of a constellation built and operated by Planet Labs Inc. to take images of Earth, were launched from the International Space Station in 2016. (NASA) by Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 26 February 2021 WASHINGTON — In year two, the U.S. Space Force wants to build deeper
An artist's rendering of the fifth geosynchronous Space Based Infrared System on orbit. (Lockheed Martin) by Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 27 February 2021 WASHINGTON — Now more than ever, American war fighters depend on space-based capabilities for their missions. In response, adversaries have developed counter space weapons meant to
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
