By Murray Horton, Secretary/Organiser, Anti-Bases Campaign, Christchurch, New Zealand, 18 April 2021 Rocket Lab started life as a small New Zealand company but is now much bigger and has become the local subsidiary of a US company, with its owners including arms industry behemoths such as Lockheed Martin. It specialises
By Amanda Miller, Published by Air Force Magazine, 16 April 2021 The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all
By Monica Witt and Jena RoweNASA Press Release, 16 April 2021 NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the
By Morgan Artyukhina, Published by SpaceWar, 16 April 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - Russia and China both have multiple hypersonic weapon systems in use or advanced development, while the US has none. The seemingly unstoppable weapons travel faster than Mach 5, or roughly 3,800 miles per hour. A senior Pentagon official
By Christen Mccurdy, Published by Space Daily, 15 April 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded three contracts this week to design a nuclear thermal propulsion system that will operate above low Earth orbit in 2025. General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin are the
By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 14 April 2021 Beijing (Sputnik) - China is calling on the global community to urgently start the negotiations on the space arms control, which should be based on a document proposed by Beijing and Moscow, the foreign ministry's spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on
By Leonard David, Published by Scientific American, 14 April 2021 A Space Age “tragedy of the commons” is unfolding right under our nose—or, really, right over our head—and no consensus yet exists on how to stop it. For more than a half-century, humans have been hurling objects into low-Earth orbit
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 13 April 2021 Slingshot teamed with Zoic Labs to develop a graphics tool to help operators view and interact with complex data. WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace announced April 13 it won a $1.2 million Space Force contract for the development of software to help
