Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 5, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration maneuvers to block the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) quest for hegemony on Earth — attacking its proxies Iran and Venezuela while arming Taiwan — in January 2026 is its becoming clear that the United States and China are also locked in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 29, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the twenty years since its founding in June 2006, New Zealand-born space engineer and entrepreneur Sir Peter Beck has turned his Rocket Lab company into a world-class competitive and innovative space launch provider, meeting civil and military requirements for economical medium-lift capability. An American […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan.4,2026, Chinese state media reported that a group of 28 Chinese astronauts had conducted a training program in which smaller groups of astronauts would spend six days and five nights training in underground caves in the Chongqing Municipality in Southwest China. The purpose was […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 11, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, January 11 The strange, metallic asteroid 16 Psyche is moving through Taurus the Bull this month. Tonight it is particularly easy to find as it slides north of the bright star Aldebaran. Cataloged as Alpha Tauri, red giant Aldebaran shines at an easy-to-spot magnitude […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 1, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 24, 2025, the United States Department of War issued its annual report to Congress on “China Military Power Report” (CMPR), that since 2000 has constituted the most credible description of China’s growing military produced by any government, especially that of China. The 2025 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Travel southeast from Capella to capture Auriga’s targets. The chart zooms in on the Happy Face asterism. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Sunday, December 28 Let’s keep the holiday joy going with a smile among the stars — tonight we’re tracking down the so-called Happy Face […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, December 14 The Geminid meteor shower peaks today with a waning Moon in the sky. Widely regarded as the best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids will produce more than 100 meteors per hour during its peak. Although you may not see quite […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 30, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, November 30 Titan reappears from an occultation behind Saturn this evening beginning at 6 P.M. EST, a short-lived event visible for those with dark skies in the eastern half of the U.S. Those on the East Coast will have the easiest time; observers across […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 27, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China hates the innovative Starlink broadband (Internet) satellite mega-constellation of the SpaceX Corporation because it offers countries and peoples that China could attack and conquer, the means to access the global Internet with its attendant abilities to communicate, access information and to control the “Internet […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Nov. 13, 2025, the first U.S. billionaire to found a space launch and service company — Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin Company (founded in 2000) — became the second company in history to achieve the first-stage recovery of its large New Glenn space […]
