Intel

Consider this proven formula for private sector business success in space: 1) Find a motivated, charismatic leader; 2) Develop a family of modular and reusable space launch vehicles (SLVs) to reduce production/launch costs and generate public and private sector business; and 3) Set your sights on sending people and cargo to the Moon and Mars to motivate increasing government support. Read More.

The seriousness of China’s buildup to its first manned Moon mission, perhaps before 2030, was emphasized by three recent revelations: A new Lunar manned spacesuit; a new facility to simulate low gravity lunar landings; and a proposal for “cyclotron” low-cost launch of payloads from the Moon to the Earth. Read More.

U.S. Space Force Commander Gen. B. Chance Saltzman used his Sept. 17 keynote address to the 2024 Air, Space, Cyber Symposium of the United States Air Force Association to highlight U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s imperative that the Space Force prepare for “Great Power Competition” and build a “resilient and effective space order of battle.” Read More.

An article in the June 2024 issue of the Chinese journal Aerospace China offers a review of China’s growing commercial space sector focusing on space launcher and mega satellite constellation makers, but it offers fewer insights into potential commercial manned space efforts. Read More.

A recent report reveals that one or more Western governments are concerned that China is in the process of proliferating satellite data services and satellite technology to Iran, that could eventually enable Iran to achieve precision targeting against Israel and then against global targets, for its future long range nuclear and non-nuclear warhead armed missiles. Read More.

As the Chinese government was basking in the glory of its athletes’ 40-gold medal performance at the July 26 to Aug. 11 Paris 2024 Olympic games, touting its “civilization,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was crushing the same in Venezuela, endorsing Dictator Nicholas Maduro’s stolen July 28 election. Read More.

A curious article from the 2023 volume of China’s Journal of Deep Space Exploration (JDSE) appears to compare the merits of two modes of transport to the Moon, direct ascent with a super heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) versus a relay system using a small space station located at the Earth-Moon Lagrangian Point L1 (EM-L1). Read More.

In strikes just days apart, Israel's military says it eliminated one of the planners of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the top commander of the Hizbullah terrorist army. Read More.

As the Biden administration draws near its close, so too does Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping’s window of opportunity for annexing Taiwan, analysts say. Read More.

Any chats by White House officials and close U.S. allies about Joe Biden’s condition in vulnerable communications over the past four years were “about 100%” intercepted by foreign spies. Read More.

Iran’s regime is at its weakest point in nearly half a century having been stung by its brutal crackdown on internal dissent, an economy in shambles, and the death of its president. Continued appeasement of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism has only made matters worse, spiraling the Middle East into a new era of instability, the leader of the world’s largest Iranian dissident organization said. Read More.

For the better part of four decades, U.S. intelligence agencies failed to address the emerging threat from communist China and, now, the U.S. is “not prepared intellectually, ideologically, organizationally, nor militarily” to confront that threat, (Ret.) Navy Capt. James Fanell said in congressional testimony on June 26. Read More.

In the year 2010 North Korea was correctly a pariah state, isolated by layers of sanctions from the United States, the United Nations and other democracies, while its attempts at missile proliferation were intercepted on the high seas. Read More.

In the run-up to the June 18 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the two countries had exchanged more than two dozen high-level government, parliamentary, and other delegations since July 2023, including 18 this year. Read More.

The United States Intelligence Community comes under the executive branch headed by the president. And yet two pivotal Republican presidents in recent American history found themselves in a death struggle with their own spy chiefs. Read More.