The Biden administration is proposing new actions designed to confront the proliferation of space traffic and debris as Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested and contested. The government launched two efforts that it hopes will lead to a safer environment for the nation's military and commercial ...
The Biden administration says it’s ruled out conducting one type of anti-satellite weapon test. While on a visit to her home state, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., formalizing the administration’s prior admonishments of an ASAT test by ...
The White House announced its United States Space Priorities Framework in a document released concurrently with Vice President Kamala Harris' first National Space Council meeting. Listed among five U.S. priorities is to “defend its national security interests from the growing scope and scale of space ...
Many factors combined to slow the creation of an independent armed force for space before it took off this year: politics, higher legislative priorities, military officials trying to protect the piece of the pie they already had. But none proved more challenging than the Air ...