A groan-inducing article at The Diplomat asks the intentionally provocative question ‘Is the U.S. Starting an Asian Space Race?” The answer, although you would never gather it from the article’s tone and presentation, is a resounding ‘no.’ The article uses the X-37, the re-usable space platform that looks like a quarter-scale space shuttle and launched [...]
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The U.S. Starting Asia Space War? Please…
Posted: August 6, 2010 in China, David Axe, EU, National Space Policy, Russia, Space Policy, Space Surveillance, The Diplomat, U.S. Space Policy, X-37Tags: China, Russia
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STSS Readies for Launch
Posted: August 20, 2009 in delta II, Missile Defense, Space Surveillance, STSSThe Delta II booster for STSS, the Space Tracking and Surveillance System, is on the pad and processing towards a 15 Sep launch. Processing can now proceed as the Air Force Delta II for the recent GPS II R-21(M) satellite was on an adjacent pad. With that mission having departed on the morning of 17 [...]
Space Traffic and The Growing Space Surveillance Mission
Posted: July 8, 2009 in Air Force Space Command, conjunction assessments, space fence, Space SurveillanceAir Force Space Command is responding to the on-orbit collision of a dead but still orbiting Russian Cosmos satellite and a functional Iridium satellite back in February 2009. The response includes plussing-up the number of operators working conjunction analysis from five to nine. Eventually AFSPC is looking at a 24-person staff to perform this mission [...]
