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 Will Lockett, Published by Medium, 20 June 2022 Rockets will never be environmentally friendly We know we must be living through a revolutionary time in history when billionaires are the ones pushing the frontiers of space rather than the government. For the most part, these billionaires seem to be
By Andrea Owe, Published by RUSI, 15 Jun 2022 When expanding into outer space, humanity risks magnifying past mistakes, ones that have triggered a global state of unsustainability. The international community must engage now to ensure strategies for a space era support sustainability on Earth and prepare for a sustainable
By Theodora Ogden, Published by Consortium News, 13 May 2022 The future of space could be a gold rush for resources – and not everyone will benefit Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help scientists track
By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 23 April 2022 The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder. Commander of the 18th SDS, Lt. Col. Matt
By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 19 April 2022 TAMPA, Fla. — Cloud computing startup Lonestar said April 19 it has contracted commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines to deploy a mini proof-of-concept data center on the moon next year. The hardback novel-sized “data center in a box” is part
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 18 March 2022 The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the
