Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Combat zones where United States and Chinese military forces are regularly “eyeball to eyeball” include the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea in defense of Japan, the South China Sea in defense of the Philippines, and increasingly in space, where the U.S. and China are […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 16, 2025 Spiritual Food* 1 John 2 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher What part of America’s “race” with China back to the Moon is most important? • That the U.S. demonstrate strong leadership of the democratic coalition of space faring nations by meeting its 2027 plans to return, beating China ‘s plan to get there before 2030? […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Monday, September 29 First Quarter Moon occurs at 7:54 P.M. EDT, offering North American observers a chance to spot the so-called Maginus sunrise ray. Now in Sagittarius, the Moon remains above the horizon until close to midnight, offering several hours to watch the ray’s progress […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ■ Fall begins today in the Northern Hemisphere at the moment of the equinox, 2:19 p.m. EDT (11:19 a.m. PDT). This is when the center of the Sun crosses Earth’s equator, and equivalently the celestial equator, in its six-month journey south from solstice […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 20, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 28, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JULY 27 ■ Use the low crescent Moon to guide you to Mars and Denebola in the fading twilight this evening, as shown below. At dusk across four days, the waxing crescent Moon moves from lower right of Mars to much closer lower right of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 11, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the colorful political alliance of President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk was historic in its scope and had a clear impact on the early space policy of Trump’s second term, their first week of June 2025 titanic political bust-up must […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s first asteroid sample return mission on May 29, 2024, is set to begin a much larger program of asteroid exploration-exploitation to assist military-space ambitions. The program would also assist longer range Chinese ambitions to create outposts into the Solar System. On May 29, from […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 26, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, MAY 26 ■ Catch the brightest asteroid, 4 Vesta, before it fades further. It’s nicely placed high in the south-southeast after the sky is fully dark (at least two hours after sunset now) in a moonless dark sky. It’s almost a month past opposition but still about […]
