Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 23, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As long as the nation can afford it, redundancy in spacecraft adds to the assurance that the United States can build a presence on the Moon sufficient to deter predations from the Chinese Communist Party’s hegemonic ambitions to control the Earth-Moon System. So, despite a […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 22, 2023 MONDAY, MAY 22 ■ The waxing crescent Moon shines lower right of Venus this evening, as shown below. The widening trio of Mars, Pollux, and Castor floats above them. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 ■ Spot Mars a little below the Moon this evening, as shown. Arcturus, which most people have surely seen […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In geosynchronous orbit (GEO) China and the United States are revealing “sharp elbows” or potential combat capabilities that reflect the very high priority both place on war-winning access to low Earth orbit (LEO) and GEO, and just as important, to deny such access to the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 13, 2023 May is the month when the Milky Way is altogether missing from the evening sky, for those of us living in the latitudes of the continental United States. That’s because the Milky Way now lies all the way around the horizon in a circle, and the North Galactic Pole […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 9, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Tiangong space station continues to evolve, raising concerns that China’s dual-use civil/military People’s Liberation Army (PLA) controlled space program is covertly developing military capabilities for its space station. On Dec. 6, 2022, the Chinese publication “Spacecraft Engineering” noted that the Chinese space station could […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is escalating its effort to bring a New Cold War divide to the moon by creating an organization with members, the International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO), as part of the 2001 China-Russia International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). China’s goal is to trump […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 28, 2023 Tiny spherical beads of silicate glass on the moon’s surface, formed when asteroids slammed into the moon and by ancient volcanic activity, contain water, claim researchers. A Chinese Chang’e 5 rover that spent two weeks on the moon in 2020 drilled into the lunar surface and returned 3.7 pounds […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 30, 2023 WORDS OF LIFE Revelations 12 1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 5, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Aug. 4, 2022, with South Korea’s first Moon mission: the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, called Danuri. Later missions will include an orbiter, lander, and rover. Danuri, from the Korean words dal and nurida, means “enjoy the Moon” and its […]
FPI / May 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On May 5, China’s People Liberation Army Daily (PLAD), which runs the website China Military Online, published a detailed attack on Elon Musk’s growing Starlink constellation. This follows nearly a year of occasional protests after the now 2,200 satellite constellation threatened China’s new manned space station […]
