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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I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Posted: May 24, 2010 in Air Force, Air Force Space Capabilities, Air Force Space Command, Offensive Space Operations, Space Weaponization?, X-37Tags: Air Force Space Command
The New York Times article on the X-37 contains two very weak assertions. How about this one: “The craft’s payload bay is the size of a pickup truck bed, suggesting that it can not only expose experiments to the void of outer space but also deploy and retrieve small satellites.” (emphasis added) I guess you [...]
X-37B Launch
Posted: April 23, 2010 in Air Force, Atlantis, Atlas, Centaur, NASA, Space Launch, Space Shuttle, Uncategorized, USAF, X-37Yes, the USAF X-37 space mission has launched. Go Atlas, go Centaur, go X-37. Is this all supposed to coincide with Earth Day? After all, the X-37 is a reusable vehicle…of course, in theory, so is the shuttle. Speaking of the shuttle, lost in the noise is the fact that the space shuttle Atlantis has [...]
Ground Control To Major Bomb
Posted: April 21, 2010 in Space Plane, Space Weaponization?, Uncategorized, USAF, X-37Feel free to laugh your guts out or at least to chuckle knowingly at this article in the CSM Air Force to launch X-37 space plane: Precursor to war in orbit? For example: “For the first time, the service will launch the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, a brand new, unmanned spacecraft to demonstrate the military’s ability [...]
