March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... US ground-based and aerial assets, limited by range and endurance, can provide. As General John Hyten, Commander of US Air Force Space Command, recently said on CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’, because of space, “we can attack any target on the planet, anytime...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... The solution is linked to a concept known as ‘Operationally Responsive Space’ (ORS). The new Secretary of the United States Air Force (USAF) favours the reinvigoration of the ORS Office [10]. Australia has a lot to offer. In the past, the US and...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... the Kármán line is not the only definition of the start of space. Organisations such as NASA and the US Air Force define the boundary as beginning at an altitude of 50 miles (about 80.5 km), which has historically allowed pilots of the X-15 rocket...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... at stake," explained Parly, as she gave a speech at Airbase 942 in Lyon-Mont Verdun in front of more than a hundred Air Force personnel on 26 July. The minister did emphasise however that France has no intention of violating the international Outer...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... in Neuroscience, and a Masters of Science in Space Studies from the American Public University. He was a Captain in the US Air Force, serving first as a Minuteman II ICBM Deputy Commander at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, and also with the US Strategic...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...image from the International Space Station. On 23 December, SpaceX launched the US Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Winners and losers SpaceX stole the headlines in February...
