Jeremy Hsu writes in the Christian Science Monitor :
The X-37B, A U.S. Air Force space raises concerns about weapons in space. While its exact purpose remains unclear, it joins a host of new space technology that could usher in a new era of space warfare.
This is from Tom Burghardt, a “researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” He has a pretty interesting article in the Pacific Free Press.
It’s not as if things aren’t bad enough right here on planet earth. What with multiple wars and occupations, an accelerating economic meltdown, corporate malfeasance and environmental catastrophes such [...]
The 2010 version of the Schriever Wargame series–Schriever X, which is actually the sixth iteration, but I quibble–is on, and I am present with uberprofessor Mike Pavelec. Fabulous Las Vegas will have to wait, because this game is for real.
Look for my after action report in a couple of weeks:
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The Space [...]
Now we are really getting things out of context. Really? Iran is Spooked?
From Asia Times, “US Robotic Shuttle Spooks Iran.”
USAF Deputy Undersecretary for Space Programs, Gary Payton, played down any speculation that the X37B is a test platform that could have any weapons applications. See the full response first reported in the Christian Science Monitor.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to comment on the upcoming launch of the USAF’s super-secret X-37B Space Plane.
First reported by Leonard Davies in Space News, it was picked up by MSNBC :
Navy Hits USAF On Satellite Acquisition (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 17 MAR 08)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has told lawmakers it fears being short-changed when cuts are made to over-budget spy satellite programs run by the Air Force.
In unusually blunt testimony, Rear Adm. Kenneth Deutsch, director of warfare integration in the Navy’s communications networks office, raised [...]
Thought this one was worth posting. Looks like General Chilton might be coming around to a warfighter’s view of space. Not a bad thing to have happen to a former Shuttle astronaut now in charge of the nation’s Strategic Command. And Mike Vickers always knows what he is talking about.
The New Art of War By [...]
Jim Oberg has another great take on “Sense, nonsense, and pretense about the destruction of USA 193” in The Space Review.
Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]