[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.