Mars? Yes, but Elon Musk now prioritizes the Moon

Mars? Yes, but Elon Musk now prioritizes the Moon

Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For over a decade SpaceX founder and leader Elon Musk has placed an emphatic corporate priority on developing the means — spaceships and associated habitation technology — to build permanent human settlements on Mars. As the 4-astronaut Artemis-II circumlunar mission prepares for its 10-day journey […]

Rocket Lab advances with low-cost, innovative ‘Neutron’ SLV

Rocket Lab advances with low-cost, innovative ‘Neutron’ SLV

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 […]

China announces discovery of carbon nanotubes on 2024 mission to far side of Moon

China announces discovery of carbon nanotubes on 2024 mission to far side of Moon

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 22, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the potential to greatly increase the utility and value of building a permanent presence on the Moon, on Jan. 20, 2026 Chinese state media lit up with the news that Chinese scientists had discovered naturally occurring carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in lunar regolith samples returned […]

‘Tragic consequences’: Korean study and immunologist’s third prediction on Covid vaccine

‘Tragic consequences’: Korean study and immunologist’s third prediction on Covid vaccine

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 22, 2026 In December 2021, months after the rollout of the Covid mRNA injections, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a highly published German microbiologist and immunologist of Thai descent, predicted three tragic consequences. First: Viruses previously suppressed in the bodies of those who received the shots would re-surge in some individuals. A consequent […]

In demand by world’s most powerful nations: The ice patch Greenland

In demand by world’s most powerful nations: The ice patch Greenland

Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 18, 2026 President Donald Trump on Jan. 17, 2026, escalated his campaign to “acquire” Greenland on behalf of the national security of the United States and its allies. He put on notice Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland after reports that several NATO nations had […]

China’s underground Moon base ambitions include lava tubes for habitation

China’s underground Moon base ambitions include lava tubes for habitation

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 […]

2025 China military report highlights space advances

2025 China military report highlights space advances

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 […]

Does China launch signal investment in its version of ‘Golden Dome’?

Does China launch signal investment in its version of ‘Golden Dome’?

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Dec. 9 launch of its TJS-22, or Tongshin Jishu Shiyan, a designator for a series of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) missile early warning (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT) and communication satellites — which could actually be the PLA’s 12th EW satellite — indicates a growing […]

China subsidies power its new space launch vehicle era

China subsidies power its new space launch vehicle era

Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 10, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 3, 2025, the first of at least 15 Chinese companies developing reusable space launch vehicles (RSLVs) conducted its first RSLV test launch, beginning a future wave of Chinese RSLV testing and boosting the growth of China’s subsidized “private” SLV sector — vice its […]

Starlink’s threat to CCP’s Taiwan obsession and PLA submarine lasers idea

Starlink’s threat to CCP’s Taiwan obsession and PLA submarine lasers idea

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 […]