April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
.... In the year that US President Donald Trump laid out his plans for a new ‘Space Force’ branch of the US armed services, he declared that “Space is a war-fighting arena, just like the land, air and sea”. China has...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...-based telescopes. The detection and tracking capability will soon be greatly improved when the Space Fence radar operated by the US Space Force becomes fully functional. This multibillion dollar S-band radar facility, located in the Marshall Islands...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... conflict. These actions have not gone unanswered. The US military re-established United States Space Command, and the United States Space Force became the first new US military service since 1947. US allies and partners also stood...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... before it even started. But does this mean that adequate intelligence monitoring of adversary space force dispositions can prevent war on the ground? Orbital space choke points would not be fixed points like on Earth, but would be different...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
... its next mission. Virgin Orbit has subsequent launches booked by customers ranging from the US Space Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force to commercial customers like Swarm Technologies, Italy’s SITAEL, and Denmark’s GomSpace. The company’s next...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
..., a backup window is available opening at 8:05 pm EDT on Thursday, 16 September, however the latest forecast from the US Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predicts a 70 percent chance of favorable conditions for liftoff at the Cape Canaveral launch...
