Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 28 in Islamabad, Pakistan and China signed an agreement for China to begin assisting Pakistan with the selection and training of Pakistani astronauts to visit China’s manned space station. Treated with fanfare by the state media in both countries, the agreement, witnessed by […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 26, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration and new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Issacman review and reassess the Artemis Moon Program and determine the best way to pursue President Donald Trump’s additional priority to put Americans on Mars, it is also important to keep […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A December 2024 discovery of a new large asteroid heading our way — even though it has a 99 percent chance of missing the Earth — is nevertheless providing an excuse for China to assemble a “Planetary Defense Force” that could justify China’s building of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 oath to “…plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars” has not gone unnoticed in Russia — and very likely also in China. On Feb. 7 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin touted Russia’s longstanding Mars ambitions even though his space […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Securing and defending American access to both the Moon and Mars are crucial to the future security of the United States and its democratic allies. Even though during his first term, Trump revived the U.S. manned Moon program in his Executive Order of Dec. 11, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the way toward fulfilling a campaign promise and beginning a shift of the global strategic balance of power back toward the United States — to include putting defensive U.S. weapons in space — on Jan. 27 President Donald J. Trump signed his executive order […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A deadly space competition between China and the United States was demonstrated by Jan.12 article in the unofficial Chinese state media South China Morning Post (SCMP) on how Chinese engineers are developing the means to target U.S. satellite mega-constellations. The SCMP article was likely coercive […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For its first satellite launch for 2025, China decided to demonstrate the dual-use nature of its space program, by launching its Shi Jian (Experimental)-25 satellite, ostensibly to test satellite refueling, but which can also perfect satellite interception, capture and destruction skills for the new Aerospace […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 1, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In Dec. 2024 China has revealed that it is making advances that could enable its domination of “Near Space,” which could go far to ensure that China can dominate military conflicts on Earth. Like the United States, China has long viewed the region known as […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 18, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Though not a Cabinet position, the leader of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a political prominence greater than most Cabinet members, as this person is responsible for American leadership into the “final frontier,” with competency requirements that straddle the realms of […]
