By Shira Ovide, Published by the New York Times, 6 April 2022 Maybe you’ve wondered as I have: Is there a point to rocketing rich guys like Jeff Bezos and the “Star Trek” actor William Shatner into space? Wendy Whitman Cobb, an Air Force political scientist for space, says yes.
Mateus Rumaikeuw menunjukkan patok tanda klaim lahan oleh LAPAN di wilayah hutan adat Warbon, Distrik Biak Utara, Kabupaten Biak Numfor, Papua, yang dipasang pada 1982. (Project M/Permata Adinda) By Permata Adinda, Published by Project Multatuli, 4 April 2022 The people only recently found out the existence of a land release
By Leo Bruce, Published by NASA Space Flight, 8 March 2022 SaxaVord Spaceport has become the second launch facility in the United Kingdom to receive its milestone approval to begin construction. This comes after Sutherland Spaceport, another British vertical launch facility, cleared legalities last year and is now also in
By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 17 February 2022 WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s procurement organization has set 2026 as a target date for delivering “maximum operational capability” in the form of new, more resilient space systems. That timeline, says Space Systems Command Executive Director Joy White, was set by
By Will Griffin, 7 February 2022 “State surveillance has been an integral part of American political life far longer than we might imagine.” - Alfred McCoy, Tom Dispatch The modern surveillance state is now ubiquitous; it's everywhere, all the time. In 2013, Edward Snowden may have proved that the state,
By Adam Frank, Published by Bigthink, 27 January 2022 Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold. Rockets are so big because they require enormous amounts of fuel. SpinLaunch’s method does away with much of that
By Ekaterina Blinova, Published by Sputnik News, 22 January 2022 NATO released its "overarching" space policy on 17 January, stipulating that any space-based attack on an ally could trigger the alliance's collective defence policy under the bloc's Article 5. What's behind the renewed US focus on space and expansion of
By Brett Tingley, Published by The Drive, 5 January 2022 The previously classified Starfire Optical Range aids astronomers while enabling the Space Force to better detect and track small objects in space. Previously classified adaptive optics technologies enabled the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to capture an image of
