By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 27 May 2021 Private industry is launching at a pace with which the military’s space-surveillance system can’t keep up. Now lawmakers say the Commerce Department’s fix is running late. It’s been nearly three years since the U.S. Commerce Department was ordered to start
By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 6 May 2021 As space becomes more crowded, there’s little hope for new international rules to make it safer. Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too
By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 14 April 2021 Beijing (Sputnik) - China is calling on the global community to urgently start the negotiations on the space arms control, which should be based on a document proposed by Beijing and Moscow, the foreign ministry's spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 12 April 2021 In order to prevent a potential arms race in the cosmos, Russia has revealed that it wants to begin negotiations with other space-faring nations to create an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in Earth’s orbit. That’s according
By Hoss Cartwright and Deborah Lee James, Published in Breaking Defense, 26 March 2021 How strategically important is space, beyond spy and communications satellites? This opinion piece by Hoss Cartwright, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Air Force Secretary Debbie Lee James, makes it pretty
By Alice Slater, Published in Common Dreams, 9 February, 2021 The U.S. mission to dominate and control the military use of space has been, historically and at present, a major obstacle to achieving nuclear disarmament and a peaceful path to preserve all life on earth. Reagan rejected Gorbachev's offer to
by Thomas Crow, Published by Phys.org, 11 February 2021 Space has long been seen as the domain of scientists and engineers, but space also needs diplomacy. But what exactly is space diplomacy and why do we need it? Professor Melissa de Zwart is a self-described space nerd and the Dean
By John Fairlamb Published in The Hill - 4 February 2021 The Biden administration is assembling a deep bench of personnel with experience negotiating arms control agreements and already has agreed with Russia to extend the New Start Treaty. It’s clear the administration intends to initiate another look at the
