March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... as much as US$8 billion more in space capabilities over the next five years, a serious signal of how gravely the Pentagon considers the problem. As a consequence, it has undertaken a number of internal reviews on how to chart the course for a future...
20 June 2018
Trump officially calls for the creation of US “space force”
...few months ago, on Monday President Trump officially directed the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the military, a “space.... ”I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a...
25 February 2018
Into the Black
...to the NRO, ‘a spy agency hidden deep inside the Pentagon whose very existence was classified.’ Although it has four main... are very few clues to the story within - parallels with Pentagon documents perhaps? The style is engaging in the sense of that...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
..., and then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The Pentagon building in Washington DC, headquarters of the US Department ...culminated his Department of the Army positions working in the Pentagon as the Army’s senior civilian space policy analyst. The...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... in-demand American launch vehicle (nine missions in 2014 alone). ULA plans to use growing demand from the Pentagon to develop more rockets, make them less costly, and re-enter the commercial market. In order to do that, ULA...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... economic case for, Solar Power Satellites (SPS). Recent studies by NASA, the US Department of Energy and the Pentagon demonstrate that SPS is a concept whose time is near. The missing component is combined government/private industry commitment...
