July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... Moon but failed to find the necessary funding. He also persuaded the military to allow him to develop a heavy-lift launcher with various exotic military space missions in mind (anti-satellite weapons, for example) but this had only...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
...only worse. It leaves the Air Force ‘in the cockpit’ to drive military space, which is the self-same position our nation has been in since..., it has not always been a “good steward of military space” during the 60-plus years since it was created. Those...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...power. Prof S Chandrashekar of the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangaluru, India, argues that China’s military space programme emphasises an “anti-access, area denial” strategy, using increasingly sophisticated observation satellites and...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... since 1947. US allies and partners also stood up new military space organisations, such as the French Space Command and United Kingdom Space Command. NATO preceded both by announcing in 2019 that space is an operational domain and stood up the NATO...
09 April 2019
US space chiefs justify ambitious exploration plans
... leaders Tuesday offered justification for their ambitious plans to reorganise the nation’s civil and military space efforts and to accelerate exploration programmes, including the new goal announced in recent weeks to land American astronauts on ...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... other allied States. In the meantime, the intentional destruction of a State’s own satellite(s) in space has emerged as a means of showcasing military space power and capabilities. All of these trends jeopardise the long-term sustainability of outer...
