Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, Chair of the National Security Studies Department at the U.S. Naval War College, has published an interesting article titled “China’s Space Ambitions” in Proliferation Papers, available at:
http://www.ifri.org/files/Securite_defense/China_Space_Johnson_Freese.pdf.
[John Sheldon has a very thoughtful editorial in Today’s Space News]
The Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) test in January has produced countless calls for ways and means to strengthen and achieve “space security.” The advocates for space security range from the well-intentioned through to the disingenuous, but all have one thing in common: the state of affairs […]
An interesting effort at Space Debate.org: Expanding the Debate on Space Weaponization.
The Blog is in early development and the quality is spotty, but this could turn into a very useful tool.
Here’s a link to an interesting space elevator technology angle (diamond vs. nanocarbon cables): http://www.thespacereview.com/article/916/1
[It’s been a while since this first appeared in Space News, thought it might be worth dredging up]
No nation relies on space for its security more than the United States — none is even close. Both economically and militarily, loss of space capabilities would prove disastrous. America’s economy, and along with it the world’s, would […]
Here’s an emerging sci-fi technology that’s beginning to shed some of its giggle factor — enough so that a year ago last fall, Arthur C. Clarke felt comfortable saying the following in a London Times column:
The space elevator was the central theme in my 1978 science-fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise (soon to be a Hollywood […]
Saturday’s Science Section of the New York Times had a colorful piece by William Broad on the problem of space debris complicated by the reckless destruction of one of its weather satellites by the Chinese. The gist is that a terrible problem in space navigation is getting catastrophically worse. There is no doubt the Chinese ASAT […]
[A version of this editorial appeared in Space News]
No nation relies on space more than the United States, both for its economic well-being and its military security. For this reason, obliteration of a decrepit weather satellite in a successful Chinese weapon system test on January 11 is especially troubling.
Launching a medium-range ballistic missile from deep […]