May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... bilateral and multilateral sanctions. As a result, Iran no longer has financial reserves to buy weapons abroad, such as modern military aircraft, and is restricted from doing so anyway. By contrast, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
..., who was commissioned to realise it, the statue is an ode to mankind exploring the cosmos. Either way, it has no economic or military use and so by these arid standards it appears to be magnificently useless. But at the end of the day, what can...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... for terrestrial conflicts, though still applicable to conflicts in outer space. This is part of the significant contribution of JP5 to military planning. However, before any warfare planning is initiated, the criteria that would satisfy war aims and...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... time, the renewal of great-power competition has expanded military competition within space, as US competitors China and Russia... The treaty bans weapons of mass destruction, prevents military activity on celestial bodies, and charts peaceful uses for...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... billed as a civilian Earth observation system, but was militarily codenamed Jianbing-3 and was China’s first [2000] military high-resolution, digital, remote sensing satellite. Ziyuan III is China’s first high-resolution civilian stereoscopic Earth...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... to the “three Cs”, the implicit focus from a US military perspective has always been on the extent to which other nations...challenge US supremacy in space. It is true that the military threats to space have indeed increased as India, Russia, and...
