Tag: Space

(USA/Space) Space Force says new anti-jamming upgrade coming in 2022 (Defense News)

The Space and Missile Systems Center completed three virtual tests of a new anti-jamming capability for satellite communications in the final months of 2020,...

(USA/NASA/Space) NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to start searching for life on Mars (MIT Technology Review)

Neel V. Patel If the rover makes a safe landing at Jezero crater, it will begin one of the most ambitious missions NASA has ever...

(USA/Space) Space Operations Command taps LinQuest for support (Defense News)

Nathan Strout Space Operations Command awarded a nearly decade-long $200 million contract for advisory and assistance services to LinQuest, the Department of Defense announced Feb....

(USA/Space) L3Harris leaped from tracking weather to tracking missiles, cracking a competitive field (Defense News)

Nathan Strout In January 2017, one of the government’s newest weather satellites picked up the most bizarre signal: a wildfire moving at breakneck speeds across...

(USA/Space) Don’t Downgrade Space (Defense One)

Dan Tomanelli Early indications from the Oval Office suggest that the Biden administration places less importance on space policy than did the Trump administration. This...

(Space/Mars/International Competition) Will Mars become an object of international competition? (Brookings)

Darrell M. West February has been a big month for Mars exploration. We already have seen the United Arab Emirates and China successfully place orbiters around Mars, while the...

(Europe/Space) La conquête spatiale dans le viseur de l’Europe (Portal de l’Intelligence Economique)

Emeryck Edon Le 11 septembre 2020, l’Armée de l’Air a été renommée Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace, non sans raison, considérant l’enjeu que représente...

(USA/Space) A Pentagon strategy for elevating the space mission (Brookings)

Michael Sinclair and Mir Sadat Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faces a host of challenges that are rapidly outpacing fiscal calendars, election cycles and even the best laid military plans...

(USA/Space) To Infinity and Beyond: Civil and Commercial Space Policy in the Biden Administration (CSIS)

Kaitlyn Johnson https://www.csis.org/analysis/infinity-and-beyond-civil-and-commercial-space-policy-biden-administration

(Space) Space race: UAE, US and Chinese missions prepare to explore Mars (Al Jazeera)

David Child https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/2/8/space-race-uae-us-and-chinese-missions-prepare-to-explore-mars

(Civilization/Space) Civilization’s Swift Move Toward Outer Space (Fair Observer)

By Peter Isackson https://www.fairobserver.com/culture/peter-isackson-daily-devils-dictionary-space-colonization-conquest-jeff-bezos-moon-elon-musk-mars-jonathan-swift-satire-16671/

(USA/China) The US and China Must Cooperate in Space (Anne-Marie Slaughter, Emily Lawrence, Project-Syndicate)

Although the United States and China will likely remain at odds on many issues, President Joe Biden’s administration must also recognize those areas where...

(China/Space) China’s Ambitions in Space: The Sky’s the Limit (Marc Julienne, IFRI)

From the dawn of China’s space program in the mid-1950s to the ability to build, launch and operate satellites in low Earth and geosynchronous...

(India) Avoid privileging public sector over private sector in space (Kartik Bommakanti, ORF)

The Modi government made a significant decision in May 2020 to permit private sector participation in the space industry. The key to realising the...

(Russia) Russia’s Space Policy: The Path of Decline? (Florian Vidal, IFRI)

With the advent of New Space, Russia is engaged in a race against time to preserve one of its major industrial assets. Russia’s Space Policy:...

USA – How AI Will Help the U.S. to Mars and Beyond (Michael Limotta, Nextgov)

Artificial intelligence and automation will play key roles in ensuring future astronauts on Mars can safely perform their missions. https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2020/12/how-ai-will-help-us-mars-and-beyond/170935/