Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 14, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 14, U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the annual conference of the U.S. Air and Space Association: “Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist. This is why the United States now […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It was revealed by Elon Musk himself to a roomful of thousands adoring space geeks at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico (this analyst was there). Ten years later on Sept. 28, 2026, SpaceX accomplished the first full orbital test of its Starship […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 25, 2026 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. 22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. — Proverbs 25:21-22 If Donald J. Trump had an enemies’ list, Chinese […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 24, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 16, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Daniel Caine told the United States Air and Space Force Association that the U.S. Joint Force should be “prepared to fight” in “cislunar space,” or the region between the Earth and the Moon and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 17, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Oxon Hill, MD — In Sept. 15 remarks before the Air Cyber Space Conference of the United States Air Force Association, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman described aspects of the lunar space race with China and the importance for the U.S. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 10, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher An “international” satellite project and a Sept. 5 revelation in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) indicate that China is moving to contest cislunar space, the strategic zone between the Earth and the Moon. On Sept. 4 state media China Daily revealed the International Cislunar […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 3, 2026 One result of what top U.S. China watcher Miles Yu terms the “dangerous delusion of quiet diplomacy with China” is a new report by a U.S. Air Force center that found hundreds of U.S. universities, research institutions, and corporations have maintained active research ties and exchanges with Chinese military […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 27, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 18 China’s LandSpace Corporation achieved the first first-stage vertical recovery for a reusable space launch vehicle (SLV) produced by a “privately” funded Chinese space company. The LandSpace Zhuque-3 two-stage SLV also achieved China’s first on-land first-stage vertical recovery about 390 kilometers down range, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 21, 2026 By silencing early whistleblowers, disappearing citizen journalists, and restricting data access, the Xi Jinping regime prevented the global community from mounting a timely defense against Covid, critics say. That was more than six years ago, and the data continues to accumulate. The outrage has however been actively discouraged if […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 20, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 5, 2026, a nearly 4-ton upper stage to a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket crashed into the Moon creating an 18-meter-wide crater. More than 60 spacecraft or other man-made objects have crashed into the Moon since 1959, but there is growing concern that lunar traffic […]
