(DKosig/Getty Images) By Oliver Lemaitre, Published by Space News, 1 December 2025 Before we start, a caveat: The following opinion is only relevant in a situation where the EU, together with its member states, would eventually decide to invest enough to equip itself with space capabilities commensurate with Europe’s economic
By Brett Tingley, Published by Space.com, 13 November 2025 The DARPA program aims to improve the ability to "track potential threats and objects of interest originating from or transiting cislunar space." As the moon becomes the center of the new space race, the United States military is looking for new
By Mia Nurmamat, Published by the South China Morning Post, 11 November 2025 In 2003, a decade after the humiliation of the Yinhe incident - when a Chinese container ship was left stranded for weeks after the United States jammed its Global Positioning System (GPS) - Beijing set its sights
By Sam Clark, Pulished by Politico, 5 November 2025 BRUSSELS — The United States has hit out at an upcoming EU space law that it says would place “unacceptable regulatory burdens” on American space companies. In a response to a consultation published Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said it has
ESA’s Vigil spacecraft will watch the sun from the L-5 Lagrange point. Credit: Airbus By Maxwell Zhu, Published by Space News, 4 November 2025 From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed
By Jason Rainbow, Published by Space News, 3 November 2025 TAMPA, Fla. — The United Kingdom must move swiftly to turn ambition into action after falling short of a vision outlined three years ago to become a major global space power, a cross-party parliamentary committee warned Nov. 3. The committee
By Col Charles S. Galbreath, USSF (Retd.),Published by Mitchell Aerospace Power, November 2025 AbstractThe evolution of the U.S. military space architecture is at an inflection point. China is aggressively pursuing dynamic space approaches to increase and sustain its space architecture capabilities and place U.S. assets at a position of disadvantage.
An Air Force Research Laboratory Oracle spacecraft, shown in a conceptual illustration, would observe the region near the Moon and potentially beyond. AFRL By Courtney Albon, Published by Air and Space Forces, 22 October 2025 As the gap between U.S. and China’s space capabilities narrows, national security space experts say
