Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 18, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Oct. 15, 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of China’s first manned spaceflight, the Shenzhou-5 mission that saw former People’s Liberation Army Air Force Shenyang J-6 fighter pilot Yang Liwei orbit the Earth 14 times in 21 hours before landing. But for a Chinese Communist Party […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Sometimes the second, sometimes the first richest man on Earth according to open reports, Elon Musk owns about 54 percent of SpaceX Corporation stock, which works out to about $17.2 billion and 13 percent of his Tesla electric car company, which works out to about […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 2019 China’s leading space corporation, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), was behind a proposal to create “an Earth-Moon economic zone by 2050” that could generate $10 trillion. But according to a report in the Chinese publication China Space News, in late […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 13 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, China used a Long March-3B space launch vehicle to loft into geosynchronous orbit (GEO) its first massive LuDiTanCe 04 or Land Exploration-4 01, now the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 22, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 19, Russia’s Luna-25 unmanned Moon exploration vehicle crashed into the Moon and was destroyed, dashing what was to be the first element of the China-Russia International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), raising the stakes for China’s unmanned Moon probes to begin to populate the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States plans its manned return to the Moon, in 2025 or 2026, to be followed by China’s astronauts in 2029. One key to their respective abilities to build lunar facilities as the basis for dominating choice strategic locations on the Moon will be […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher To its credit, the Biden Administration is using space diplomacy on Earth to upset China’s plans for global and space hegemony. On July 27, as Chinese Politburo Member Li Hongzhong was celebrating China’s proliferation of nuclear weapons to North Korea as a star guest in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 25, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher According to the U.S. Department of Defense, China maintains over 500 surveillance, intelligence, early warning, navigation and communication satellites around the Earth — the second largest satellite fleet after the United States. But several Chinese satellite programs are underway that will boost these numbers as […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On May 30 the State Department issued its Strategic Framework for Space Policy, a first of its kind document intended to guide State Department diplomatic efforts in support of United States space programs. Of special concern is the National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Artemis […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 7, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On May 25, South Korea launched its third Korean Space Launch Vehicle-II “Nuri” (World) that successful deployed eight satellites. On May 30, North Korea’s first attempt to launch its new Chollima-1 space launch vehicle ended in failure. In addition to reflecting that the competition between […]
