The Battle for Eurasia
China, Russia, and their autocratic friends are leading another epic clash over the world’s largest landmass.
Space is set to become the new Wild West.
By building spaceports overseas, Beijing wants to flout the current rules, and write its own.
The first lunar era was defined by geopolitics. The winners of the next will be those who can triumph in economic competition and rule-making.
Outer Space Security & Governance
If regulation of space weapons is coming, Putin wants to be ahead of the pack.
Billionaire rocket launches and ongoing cyberattacks reveal that, without norms governing conflict, there could be chaos.
Falling rocket debris, space junk crowding the skies, and unregulated resource competition make this the hour of space diplomacy.
SPACs are creating a space bubble that will eventually come crashing back to Earth along with cosmic junk launched during the current frenzy.
It could build entire industries, create new jobs, green the economy—and unite the country behind a common purpose.
For more than 20 years, an obscure U.S. law concealed satellite imagery of Israel’s activities in the occupied territories. Because of an abrupt reversal, satellite technology can now be used to defend Palestinians’ human rights.
The Defense Department hasn’t done enough to secure satellites and prepare for greater militarization of space, experts say, as it rolls out a new strategy for the domain.
The Pentagon is concerned that Moscow is seeking to militarize space with a significant anti-satellite test.
The newly reestablished U.S. Space Command will focus on preventing, not fighting, a conflict in space.
Getting off this planet is more important than hypothetical Martian bacteria.
Arrests in Hong Kong, a proroguing prime minister, and criticism of World Bank funding in Xinjiang.
The United States officially resurrects U.S. Space Command, but the fight for a Space Force is not yet done.
The private sector can give the United States a much-needed rocket boost.
The solutions to climate change lie far, far away.
The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.
Michael Waltz, Congress’s first Green Beret, talks about the new Space Force and America’s budding commercial launch industry.