Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 23, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For both the United States and China, satellite megaconstellation companies require space launch vehicles (SLVs), or rockets, while SLV makers require customers — governments or companies that require their payload to be launched into space. In the United States there are well-known SLV-satellite “ecosystems” in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 21, 2026 Significant gaps in China’s heavily guarded airspace were exposed when, on June 26, a small recreational plane crashed into the 109-story CITIC Tower, Beijing’s tallest building. The solo pilot died, and 13 people were injured by falling debris in the central business district. The incident profoundly impacted the Xi […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 16, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The video showed the big rocket’s first stage in recovery, then a huge crowd of people erupt in cheers — it was all very SpaceX-like — but only this video was of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s (CASC) July 10 first launch and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 9, 2026 The new face of communism in the United States is not like the grim pro-Soviet Left of the twentieth century. Rather it has embedded in the American culture, inspired by the Chinese Communist Party according to security correspondent Bill Gertz. “Communists worldwide led by the People’s Republic of China […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 8, 2026 Is the 20th century ideology of communism threatening to destroy the American dream as the nation celebrates its 250th birthday? After vowing on July 4 not to allow the “menace” of communism to spread like a “cancer” in the United States, Trump on July 5 posted to Truth Social […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While China has been considering the problems of asteroid defense since at least about 2020, there may now be real plans for the construction of a Chinese planetary defense capability — with inherit dual-use dangers. On June 30, Chinese state television CCTV featured an official […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 25, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The demand for commercial manned space activity in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has been demonstrated recently by the success of Long Beach, California-based space station developer VAST having signed up astronaut clients from three European countries just during the month of June 2026. Founded only […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, Jund 19, 2026 At the candlelit closing dinner of the G7 summit at the palace of Versailles, world leaders reflected on the advantages of apocalyptic regimes not having access to weapons of mass destruction which raises the question: Which is worse, a potentially nuclear-armed Islamist leader longing for the end of the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 18, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) revealed in August 2023 that it was working to compile a 100-year plan to populate the Earth’s nearby solar system. Thus, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which specializes in long term plans would require large rockets to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct, June 9, 2026 President Donald Trump on June 5 signed a national-security memorandum aimed at accelerating and securing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications for U.S. military and intelligence purposes. The National Security Presidential Memorandum “reflects a growing view inside the White House that U.S. security agencies are moving […]
