Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 31, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 28, two days after the United States beseeched China to help stop Iranian-fueled warfare against Israel and Western shipping in the Middle East, Iran became the first Arab state to launch three satellites into space from one rocket, on its Simorgh (Phoenix) liquid-fueled […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 24, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the burgeoning and cutthroat world of China’s “private” space launch sector, the motto of pioneering private company Landspace should be, “if you can’t beat them, join them.” In 2016 this “private,” or not state-owned but still subservient to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) company, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 17, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States requires a strategy to establish a clear lead over China in the race to dominate the Moon; The Jan. 9 announcement that the Artemis-3 next U.S. manned Moon mission is delayed to September 2026 puts the democracies in a dead heat with […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 10, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A major Chinese aerospace journal has “suggested” a date for China’s first manned Moon landing while on Jan. 8, the United States launched the Perigrine-1 commercial robotic Moon lander built by the Astrobotic Corporation, due to reach the Moon in February. The December 2023 issue […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 3, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The year 2023 was significant for China’s space program on a number of levels, starting with the largest number of space launches — 65 — one more than 2022, while 17 were from new “commercial” space companies (CAS Space, Galactic Energy, Landspace, Space Pioneer, Expace, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 20, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s expected 3rd mission for its new small space plane was launched on Dec. 12, and on Dec. 15 China launched its largest optical intelligence satellite, Yaogan-41. Meanwhile, the expected 7th launch for the United States Space Force’s X-37B for Dec. 11 was postponed to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 6, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China may have a new command dedicated to combat in “Near Space,” which is usually defined as between 20 kilometers and 100 kilometers in altitude, or just below Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This is significant because for decades, the United States and China have researched […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 29, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher North Korea’s Nov. 21 third launch (first successful after earlier launches on May 30 and Aug. 23) of its Chollima-1 space launch vehicle (SLV) marks the beginning of the Kim family dictatorship’s space power era. North Korea has become the second terror state to achieve […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 22, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It’s been a tough week for SpaceX and Elon Musk, but they are getting some rare sympathy from China. At 8 a.m. EST on Nov. 18, from the SpaceX launchpad at Boca Chica, the second Starship two-stage heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) — the largest […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 15, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Look out Elon Musk, your “cheese” is about to be moved by the beginning of nuclear space power, and defense prime Lockheed Martin is making serious investments in the development of this technology. Paraphrasing Spencer Johnson’s 1998 classic millennial business book Who Moved My Cheese, […]
