By Kyle Mizokami, Published by Popular Mechanics, 7 September, 2021 Soon, the U.S. Air Force will make its secret new space weapon public.The unveiling will be a warning to other military space powers.Air Force officials (and President Biden) must agree to the declassification first. The U.S. Air Force has a
By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 25 August 2021 Need to track, detect objects driving need for new space domain awareness investment. U.S. Space Command is tracking almost 35,000 objects in low Earth orbit, a 22 percent increase from just two years ago, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 20 August 2021 The push to declassify an existing space weapon is being spearheaded by Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. WASHINGTON: For months, top officials at the Defense Department have been working toward declassifying the existence
By Christopher Stone, Published by C4ISRNET, 8 July 2021 China’s aggressive military space strategy, which views space warfare as “rapid and destructive,” must prompt U.S. space leaders to rethink their approach to this growing threat. While defenses against Chinese ground-based anti-satellite missiles or on-orbit weapons may include such methods as
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 16 June 2021 WASHINGTON — The head of the Space Force acknowledged that the U.S. is developing the “appropriate” directed-energy systems to maintain American space superiority, although he declined to provide details in the unclassified setting of a June 16 congressional hearing. Noting that
By Staff Writers for Launchspace, Published in Space War, 26 April 2021 Bethesda MD (SPX) - It is well known that the Straits of Gibraltar provide access to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of strategic importance, this geographic phenomenon provides a control point for all seagoing traffic between the Atlantic
by Morgan Artyukhina, Published by Space War, 8 April 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - While the Pentagon has cried foul over Russian space-based devices it claims are weapons, the US has tested its own identical devices for years. Their claims have served as the alarmist foundations for justifying the creation of
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 1 April 2021 "From the evidence we have available, it sure looks like Russia is a bigger counterspace threat than China, which is contrary to a lot of the public discussion that focuses almost entirely on China," said SWF's Brian Weeden. WASHINGTON: With
