China lunar chief accuses US of interfering in joint space programmes with other nations

Tiangong Space Station – China Published by AsiaOne, 23 April 2025 BEIJING -The chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme accused the United States on Wednesday (April 23) of interfering in Beijing's attempts to co-operate with Europe and other foreign partners in space programmes. Wu Weiren, in a rare interview

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Goodbye Starshield – China and Russia Develop Technology Called “Starlink Killers” to Take Down Elon Musk’s Satellite Network

Starlink dish on a roof. Image credit: Shutterstock. By Raquel, Published by El Adelantado, 20 April 2025 Both China and Russia are now actively developing systems dubbed “Starlink Killers”—technologies designed to disrupt or disable Elon Musk’s Starlink and Starshield satellites, which have become vital tools for military communication, especially in

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State of the Space Force 2025

(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Audry Decker, Published by Defense One, 18 April 2025 As Trump envisions “our manifest destiny into the stars,” the Space Force is set to play a key role in America’s space ambitions. When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed

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A composite image showing rows of Starlink satellites awaiting deployment into low Earth orbit in front of a picture of Earth taken from the International Space Station. (Image credit: SpaceX via X)

Russia and China are threatening SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, new report finds

Starlink satellites awaiting deployment into low Earth orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Sharmila Kuthunur, Published by Space.com, 8 April 2025 "A future conflict in space could have massive, long-term negative repercussions that are felt here on Earth, as everyone on this planet is a user of space data in some

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Russia’s Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583 Satellites Deploy Mystery Object in Orbit

The Soyuz-2.1V rocket launches the Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583 satellites / screenshot from video By Sofia Syngaivska, Published by Defense Express, 3 April 2025 Recently launched russian satellites have engaged in suspicious proximity maneuvers and released an unidentified object, prompting scrutiny from space analysts A trio of secretive russian

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The ‘Space Laser’ Wars Have Begun—And America Wants to Be First to Develop the High-Powered Weapons

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) By Matt Berman, Published by Popular Mechanics, 20 March 2025 One of DARPA’s concerns is that Russia has allegedly developed a nuclear space-based, anti-satellite weapon that may be capable of blinding hundreds of satellites. DARPA, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency, is funding space laser projects amid simmering concerns that

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