By Jeremy Kuzmarov, Published by Covert Action Magazine, 10 April 2022 New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the
By Debbie Kelley, Published by The Gazetter, 4 April 2022 The militarization of space should be of concern to everyone, say a group of Colorado Springs anti-war activists, some of whom have been demonstrating at the Space Symposium since its beginnings in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars program
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 4 April 2022 As space becomes increasingly important to terrestrial activities, the tools and weapons available to disrupt and damage satellites are proliferating around the world COLORADO SPRINGS – It’s hard to imagine how the world’s economies and military forces would operate without unfettered
By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 4 March 2022 Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond hands the flag of the new Space Systems Command to Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein during an assumption of command ceremony at Los Angeles Air Force Base last August. WASHINGTON — The Space Force is
By Thomas Novelly, Published by yahoo!news, 15 February 2022 This past November, the Russian Federation destroyed one of its own Soviet-era satellites with a missile, sending thousands of scraps of shrapnel hurtling through space, a cloud of debris that threatened other orbiting satellites including those belonging to the U.S. U.S.
By Karl Grossman, Presented at the Space Tourism: Legal Dimensions Conference, 29 January 2022 The push to turn space into a war zone could spell goodbye to space tourism. The space tourism drive that is underway, led by billionaires Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin company, Richard Branson and his
By John Mecklin, Published by Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 17 January 2022 Since the launch of Sputnik and the so-called missile gap of the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union (and later, Russia) have vied for space supremacy. Through much of the competition, prestige and propaganda value
By Douglas Loverro, Brian G. Chow, Brandon W., Kelley, Brian Weedon and Robert Cardillo, Published by Aerospace Security, 11 January 2022 On the 15th anniversary of the first post-Cold War kinetic-energy ASAT test, it’s time for the U.S. to take a stance Over 70 years ago, two RAND researchers structured the
