WORLD: Space

July 25, 2025
Commerce Cuts Space Traffic Management Program  By Shaun Waterman  The first Trump administration moved to relieve the Space Force of its burden to monitor and warn civilian space operators about potential space traffic hazards. But now, just as the Commerce...

Letters

Feb. 7, 2025
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Small satellites lend themselves to many more applications than simply low-Earth orbit resilience.  Russian and Chinese offensive spacepower ambitions are making headlines and are intent on erasing the vital advantage the United States has in space. U.S. defense leadership now...
Unlike the race to the Moon between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s, this new space race involves dozens of countries, dynamic geopolitical tensions, and technical capabilities associated with sustained presence.

WORLD: Space

Aug. 31, 2023
WORLD-Space: Biden says Space Command to stay in Colorado; Space Force gets Targeting Squadron; Space Force Legacy Guardian Recognition Act.