By Gabriel Honrada, Published by Asia Times, 12 August 2022 Long-Range Discrimination Radar aims to distinguish hunter-killer satellites from space debris and live warheads from decoys The United States is wrapping up tests of its new Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) as part of a significant upgrade of its missile defense
By Natasha May, Published by the Guardian, 1 August 2022 Astrophysicist Brad Tucker says he often gets calls from people who think they’ve found space junk but the scorched metal found by two farmers is ‘very real’ The Australian Space Agency is investigating space debris found in farmland in the
By Howard Altman, Published by The Drive, 19 July, 2022 The U.S. Space Development Agency, or SDA, announced on Monday that it was awarding more than $1.3 billion in two prototype agreements to send 28 small satellites into low Earth orbit. Scheduled for launch in three years, the satellites are
By Tanmay Kadam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 10 July 2022 Chinese space scientists used an enormous space sail to deorbit a recently launched Long March 2 rocket, China’s state-owned Global Times reported on July 6. This was the first such experiment ever performed on a rocket. This deorbiting sail
By Matthew Humphries, Published by PC Magazine, 4 July 2022 NASA administrator Bill Nelson believes China is undertaking a military space program in a bid to gain total control of the moon, not allowing anyone else access to it. As Reuters reports, the comments were made by Nelson during an
By Fan Anqi and Zhang Changyue, Published by Global Times, 3 July 2022 NASA chief Bill Nelson has freshly warned of a new "space race" with China, claiming that China wants to "occupy the moon" citing the lunar research base that China and Russia are co-building, which he is "very
By Koohan Paik-Mander, Published by Foreign Policy in Focus, 25 June 2022 The Pentagon is upgrading its full-spectrum dominance, with China as the primary target. In early June 2021, in a classified directive to Pentagon officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slammed the former Trump administration for talking big but never
By Stephen Chen Published by South China Morning Post, 13 June 2022 The team ran thousands of simulated space battles in which the hunters developed the ability to ‘trick’ their target Researchers believe there will be no role for humans in this type of conflict, with AI being used to
