U.S. space defense leaders follow a precise set of priorities in pursuing their goal of space superiority: develop next-generation missile defense technologies, counter threats from…
For years, military leaders warned that space was becoming a contested domain. In the spring of 2026, U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) began preparing for what…
A rising Russian rocket sloughs off what appear, at first, to be the usual pieces of second-stage debris. One Chinese satellite docks with another and rips…
Early on February 24, 2022, before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, a different kind of assault occurred thousands of kilometers above Earth. Satellite modems that…
It’s about 9 meters long, looks like a miniature space shuttle and stayed in space for 2½ years during one of its eight missions. The…
For decades, United States officials spoke about space in careful, almost antiseptic language. Satellites were “assets.” Orbit was a “domain.” Even as the Chinese Communist…
It’s one of Hollywood’s most heart-pounding depictions of fighting in space. With the shield generators aboard the second Death Star finally disabled, pilot Lando Calrissian pushes…
Make it appealing for private industry to bring the latest space innovations to the military and strengthen the nation’s warfighting capability. That’s the thinking behind…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) annual Space Environment Report chronicles the health of Earth’s orbital domains — tracking changes, risks…
AFWERX, the United States Air Force’s innovation arm, is taking steps to deal with a big challenge in space defense…
With their demanding training regimens and tip-of-the-spear mission sets, the United States Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine commandos who…
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has launched the latest in a series of satellites that comprise its proliferated space…
Rendezvous and proximity operations — one satellite sidling up to another — are on the rise and could signal either…
Countering Adversaries Takes on New Urgency
First shots are from cyber
Gaining intelligence advantage
Welcoming new weaponry
Volume 3, Issue 1 | 2026
~ Moriba K. Jah, space entrepreneur, aerospace engineering professor with the University of Texas at Austin,
and self-proclaimed “celestial steward”
