PLA’s combat-focused space program charges U.S. threatening ‘space security’

PLA’s combat-focused space program charges U.S. threatening ‘space security’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese Propaganda Axiom: Always accuse your enemy of the offensive behavior or even crimes that you are committing while refusing to talk/negotiate with your enemy. In 2006 the United States accused China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of testing ground-based laser weapons against U.S. satellites, for […]

Seattle firm has long-term business plan for Lunar profits

Seattle firm has long-term business plan for Lunar profits

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States faces major technical and political challenges in its race with China and Russia to create sustainable manned bases on the Moon. However, it is also assuring that this is not just a geostrategic competition — as important as it is that the […]

More ‘Mischief’ as China plans space launch center In Malaysia

More ‘Mischief’ as China plans space launch center In Malaysia

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Thirty years ago in early 1995, Chinese paramilitary naval forces began a crucial phase in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) objective to impose its control over the South China Sea, clearing the way to secure global hegemony and also, hegemony in space. In those early […]

China’s future heavy space launch vehicle was clearly inspired by SpaceX Starship

China’s future heavy space launch vehicle was clearly inspired by SpaceX Starship

Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 20, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher April 24 was an active day for the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC); It successfully launched its 20th Shenzhou manned space capsule mission atop its 3.35-meter diameter Long March-3F space launch vehicle (SLV). New information that surfaced the same day affirmed that its […]

Less than transparent China leaks manned Moon schedule

Less than transparent China leaks manned Moon schedule

Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Without having to respond to a free press or an inquisitive legislature, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is free to define government transparency as it pleases, usually minimally in order to deny critical insights to adversaries looking to defend themselves from CCP aggression. This is […]

Facing fiscal gravity, NASA weighs options for Mars sample return

Facing fiscal gravity, NASA weighs options for Mars sample return

Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In December 2017, President Donald Trump revived the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) manned mission to the Moon after it had been cancelled by President Barack Obama in 2010. Then, in his Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration speech, Trump lifted NASA’s goals higher by declaring, […]

CIA file goes viral, details alleged fate of Soviet soldiers’ clash with extraterrestrials

CIA file goes viral, details alleged fate of Soviet soldiers’ clash with extraterrestrials

Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 14, 2025 Soviet soldiers encountered a UFO and were reportedly turned into stone by the extraterrestrials, according to a declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA that has gone viral. The CIA acquired the KGB report following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. According to the CIA’s report, Soviet […]

Space Force issues doctrine as basis for U.S. warfighting capabilities in space

Space Force issues doctrine as basis for U.S. warfighting capabilities in space

Special to CosmicTribune.com, April 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s first term establishment of the U.S. Space Force in December 2019 was a long-delayed response to China’s creation of a dual-use manned and unmanned military space capability. But a new Space Force Doctrine Document issued on April 4 now outlines the justification […]

China’s space sector copies SpaceX crew Dragon capsule

China’s space sector copies SpaceX crew Dragon capsule

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s state-owned and government subsidized “private” space sector has taken great liberties in trying to copy the pioneering concepts of Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation, in particular the SpaceX innovation of reusable medium and heavy space launch vehicles (SLVs). Now, one Chinese private space company is […]

To ‘Mars and even far beyond’

To ‘Mars and even far beyond’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It has been a week of momentous space news for the United States, with the March 2 landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost unmanned Moon lander, the March 6 failure of the second Intuitive Machines unmanned moon lander, and the March 6 spectacular failure […]

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