October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... time, the renewal of great-power competition has expanded military competition within space, as US competitors China and Russia... The treaty bans weapons of mass destruction, prevents military activity on celestial bodies, and charts peaceful uses for...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... billed as a civilian Earth observation system, but was militarily codenamed Jianbing-3 and was China’s first [2000] military high-resolution, digital, remote sensing satellite. Ziyuan III is China’s first high-resolution civilian stereoscopic Earth...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... to the “three Cs”, the implicit focus from a US military perspective has always been on the extent to which other nations...challenge US supremacy in space. It is true that the military threats to space have indeed increased as India, Russia, and...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... People’s Republic of China has emerged as an ambitious space power and it is on track to become the dominant economic and military force by 2045, surpassing Russia by 2030 Make no mistake, today, China’s space programme is one of the fastest growing...
21 May 2018
UK proposes ambitious national defence space strategy
... to over 600. With an increasing amount of the UK's military systems now dependent on space technology, he said Britain must ...am determined to ensure that the RAF's leadership of military space operations transforms our ability to address the growing ...
20 February 2019
Trump signs directive to initiate his Space Force
.... It will require coordination and cooperation with other spacefaring nations. That means diplomacy.” Although establishing a new military branch ultimately requires legislation from Congress, if the Space Force was created as part of the Air Force...
