Much of the public debate about space militarization has involved organizational structures: Should the United States create a separate (i.e. sixth) military service, or elevate the mission now carried out by the US Air Force Space Command, making it into another unified combatant command?
Much of the public debate about space militarization has involved organizational structures: Should the United States create a separate (i.e. sixth) military service, or elevate the mission now carried out by the US Air Force Space Command, making it into another unified combatant command?
The United States military would not need to wait around for a launch vehicle to be available or a launch window to open. "We developed a cost-effective design by moving the engines forward on the launch vehicle," Steve Johnston, Boeing's director of advanced space exploration, said in a ...
"Space, air, cyber, those are truly different domains." Space is becoming a battlefront in a broader competition among world powers, he said, making it more of an imperative to give space forces a bigger voice. [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Concepts Ever] The military services should ...
But since the creation of the Space Force last year, President Joe Biden has been elected, and the urgency to join the military race into space with China has been noticeably lacking at the White House. In fact, despite still having an advantage, if not outright dominance, in space technolo...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 workhorse rocket has secured a new US military launch contract worth $150 million, closing out a spectacularly successful year. Announced by the Department of Defence’s (DoD) Space Development Agency (SDA) on December 31st, the contract stipulates that SpaceX will launch as...
in shaping the military's use of space and evaluates the utility of the evolution of airpower doctrine and organizations as an analogy for the development of space power. The book would also cover recent events such as the use of space for precision bombing and network-centric warfare in ...
Space Force Military Branch Due to President Trump’s months of recommendation of a new free-standing Military Division, on August 9th 2018, our Vice President Pence introduced a plan to initiate the sixth branch in the U.S Military as a “SPACE FORCE” as soon as 2020. White House officia...
According to international law, the illegality of an unmanned aircraft entering another country's airspace without authorization can be exempted in the event of force majeure, danger or emergency evasion, Zhu pointed out. By contrast, the US is conducting real military reconnaissance on China using...
If President Donald Trump's Space Force idea actually comes to fruition, it won't be the first military force aiming for space. Not by a long shot. In fact, the idea of installing a military presence in space is as old as the space age, and the United St