By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 4 July 2023 Officials worry China may do for commercial-space capabilities what it did for cheap telecom equipment. China has ramped up its space mission, with plans to surpass 70 launches—commercial and military—this year. And while the Pentagon has been vocal about the
By Rachel Schike, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The United States and China, two of the world's largest superpowers, are locked in a battle to achieve supremacy in the final frontier — space. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has stepped forward to challenge the U.S.
From Bllomberg,Published by Hindustan Times, 7 June 2023 The Silent Barker satellite constellation is scheduled for launch after July on board. The US Space Force is set to launch a constellation of satellites this summer to track Chinese or Russian space vehicles that can potentially disable or damage orbiting objects,
The four-year-old command is set to reach full operating capacity this year—but will it stay in Colorado? By Audrey Decker, Publsihed by Defense One, 17 May 2023 The U.S. military is planning to use artificial intelligence to track objects in space—including China’s. The number of orbiting objects U.S. Space Command
GSSAP (Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program) By Ashish Dangwal, 7 May 2023 US spy satellites executed a staggering count of 14 close-in reconnaissance missions on Chinese high-orbit satellites, all within a span of under two years, according to reports in Chinese. The media report, citing a study by Chinese researchers,
By Stephen Chen, Published by scmp, 15 April 2023 Researchers from Wuhan University say they gave the technology full control of a satellite and set it free for 24 hours The artificial intelligence machine picked a few places and ordered the small near-Earth orbiter to take a closer look Chinese
CAS Space's prototype vertical landing rocket prototype in the air. By Baba Tamim, Published by Interesting Engineering, 9 April 2023 China's future rocket models will make use of the technology developed for recovering rockets, claims report. China has successfully tested a rocket's vertical landing in the ocean, laying the groundwork
By Parth Satam, Published by the Eurasian Times, 8 April 2023 The US aims to overwhelm Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 500 communications, data transfer, and missile tracking satellites. The first batch of 10 satellites was launched on April 2. SDA director Derek M.
