20 June 2018
Trump officially calls for the creation of US “space force”
... at it a few months ago, on Monday President Trump officially directed the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the military, a “space force,” that will be ‘separate but equal’ to the US Air force. "We must have American dominance in space,” said...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... an initiative to invest 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...
25 February 2018
Into the Black
... title suggest the double meaning that forms the core of the book: it’s partly about a venture into the blackness of space and the unknown, but also into the black world of the Pentagon and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The pitch, or hype...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... of space planning and policy assignments, including serving on the staff of the Rumsfeld Space Commission from 1999-2001. He culminated his Department of the Army positions working in the Pentagon as the Army’s senior civilian space policy analyst...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... has reportedly said that SpaceX's low pricing is only possible due to top-ups in funding from the NASA and the Pentagon. After NASA retired its space shuttles in 2011 to make way for a new space exploration program...
23 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... document on behalf of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in a press briefing (17 June) livestreamed from the Pentagon, where Kitay made it clear that the department chose the term “weaponisation” on purpose. When a reporter asked whether, in referring...
