January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... ‘diplomatic and economic means to counter American power’. Yet spacepower also enables ‘hard balancing’ against the United States. It has allowed increasing amounts of conventional military power and latent economic power to be deployed for the use...
December 2014
A door closes
... to ban the export of the RD180s to the United States for military launches. The deterioration in relations will close...Part of that argument will surely be that Russia and the United States, as the two leading spacefaring nations and among the world’s...
June 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
...international pressure, multiple rounds of sanctions, and years of diplomatic negotiations. That is also why it is likely that the United States and its allies will face increasingly sophisticated ballistic missiles in the near future. This will only...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... any resource they are able to remove from an asteroid. In seeking to facilitate a pro-growth environment in space, the United States’ government is walking a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...responsive 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...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... of about 41.5 degrees. During this period, Starlink satellites launched by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of the United States of America have had two close encounters with the China Space Station. For safety reasons, the ...
