16 March 2018
Trump suggests creating a Space Force to fight in space
... Air Station Miramar in San Diego, U.S on Tuesday, President Trump talked candidly of creating a “Space Force,” a branch of the U.S military primed to deal with potential conflict in space. “The new National Strategy for Space recognises that space...
08 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 1-8.
...Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS infrared data made available for military and civilian use. For the first time, ...Based Infrared System (SBIRS) will be made available for new military and civilian uses at the Air Force's recently opened data utilization...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
..., all these factors combined have convinced an increasing number of Asian governments of the benefits of space exploration. The military repercussions of some countries' advancements make Western officials wary; yet many people the world over who...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
...-speed and high-altitude flight would provide substantial military advantages as well, for both hypersonic missiles and... 2011 The ability to avoid countermeasures has driven military research into hypersonics. Test engineers ready a Hypersonic ...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... of possible collisions to satellite operators, who then determine whether or not to manoeuvre the satellite in question. Although the US military’s efforts are a good first step, there is still much that can be done to improve our ability to deal...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...As with much of the OST, this provision has been criticized for tacitly permitting a substantial range of other military activity. See Blair Stephenson Kuplic (2014), ‘The Weaponization of Outer Space: Preventing an Extraterrestrial Arms Race.” North...
