September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
.... Adopting a fixed boundary based on the spatialist approach would seem to be simpler and perhaps most logical. Yet, as military technology develops, countries are unwilling, for strategic reasons, to specify an upper limit beyond which they can...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
...25 years of executive experience and board positions across military and private sectors. He is an experienced programme ... lead for Space Operations in the Royal Navy, he left military service to co-found Astraius in 2020, specifically to deliver a...
February 2023
Cultivating cultural memory as Asgardians
... humanitarian support and aid the disaster relief mission in areas of Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Military personnel are often the only people with the strategic capacity to deal with the aftermath of natural...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... force projection capabilities on the ground, space is now increasingly seen as an operational or ‘warfighting’ domain as the militaries of the world’s leading space powers jostle for control of the ‘high ground’ of space. The increasingly contested...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...Near-peer competitors such as Russia and China are developing military capabilities explicitly to deny U.S. forces the use of space...and Russia continue to move briskly forward with military-focused initiatives.” While some speculate that projects ...
24 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... it all as “the gears of a powerful machine clicking into place,” he said, elevating the perception of space within the military from a “support function” to a “warfighting domain” like the traditional domains of ground, sea and air. Kitay declined...
