The new space race
Competition between the USA, China and Russia will have consequences for all of us here on Earth. But how is this 21st century space race different to the last one? The next 50 years of space...
Category: Astropolitics
Critical Astropolitics; The Geopolitics of Space Control and the Transformation of State Sovereignty
Explicitly invoking a “Space Pearl Harbor” as a potential disaster the United States must strive to avoid, the 2001 Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space...
The fight for the skies; How governments are battling in the era of Astropolitics
By Matt Ross In his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall detailed the historical and geographical factors that explain Putin’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. Now, he warns, the global race for...
Satellite beams solar power down to Earth, in first-of-a-kind demonstration
Experiment brings credibility to idea of space-based energy Researchers have taken a small but necessary step toward realizing a long-standing dream: harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it...