By Luinus Höller, Published by Defense News. 25 September 2025 BERLIN — Germany will invest €35 billion ($41 billion) in space-related defense projects by 2030, stepping up the country’s technological independence and ability to protect its assets in orbit amid an increasing militarization of outer space, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius
By Bruce Gagnon, Op-ed published by Portland Press Herald, 31 August 2025 A new treaty banning all weapons in space is the only way to prevent a future calamity. Bruce K. Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He lives in Brunswick. I read
Artist's rendering of X-37B releasing satellite: Boeing By Alexander William Salter, Published by Space News, 29 August 2025 President Trump’s recent executive order promoting commercial space competition highlights America’s unique advantage in the final frontier: our dynamic commercial space sector. American companies such as SpaceX, Planet Labs and Sierra Space are rewriting the rules
By Ethan Siegal, Published by Big Think, 20 August 2025 NASA’s 1958 charter’s top priority was, “the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.” Is this how it ends? When NASA was founded back in 1958, its charter explicitly declared “that activities in space should be
Warship Hangs Over the Clouds”: Space Force Rushes to Complete First Orbital Carrier Poised to Control the Skies Above Every Nation By Rosemary Potter, Published by Energy Reporters, 16 August 2025 As tensions escalate in the realm of space exploration, the U.S. Space Force's collaboration with Gravitics to develop an
An illustration of the Golden Dome. Credit: Arcfield By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 6 August 2025 President Trump’s signature missile defense program is reshaping Pentagon spending priorities and expanding the role of the Space Force, says a new report by the Aerospace Corp. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Trump
Satellite image of Iran's Fordo nuclear plant. Credit: Maxar By Grant Anderson, Published by Space News, 30 July 2025 It can be said with certainty that a lot went into Operation Midnight Hammer. The June 22 precision strike on Iranian strategic weapons production facilities was an airtight operation conducted with
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Conceptual image of a ground-based laser weapon attacking a satellite. Image: X Screengrab By Gabriel Honrada, Published by Asia Times, 27 July 2025 New BGSe crystal a breakthrough in directed-energy tech that could enhance ground-based laser weapons to target satellites China is using crystals to enhance the power of satellite-destroying
