Last week, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) released the much-anticipated "Commercial Space Strategy"—the first such strategy released by the USSF—which commits to realigning funding and prioritizing …
New US-Russian crew heads to space station
A SpaceX rocket with three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has begun its trip to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida. The mission will last six months. Space is one of the few …
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Iran-Linked UNC1549 Hackers Target Middle East Aerospace & Defense Sectors
UNC1549, an Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed, with medium confidence, to cyber attacks in the Middle East, including Israel and the U.A.E. targeting defense, aerospace, and aviation …
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US says Russia developing ‘troubling’ space-based anti-satellite weapon
Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon that is “troubling” but poses no immediate threat, the White House has said. National security spokesman John Kirby confirmed the weapon was …
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The Space Economy in 2024
The near term opportunities and risks of the space economy and Space Force, innovation, and national security were discussed at length at OODAcon 2023. We return here to the two panels from the …
US warned allies about Russian space, nuclear capabilities, source says
Representative Mike Turner, Republican chair of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, publicly called for the declassification of intelligence regarding a "serious national …
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What is the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer?
For many company's in the commercial space sector, "Low earth orbit (LEO) is the initial crucial step", observed Space Tango CEO Sita Sonty in a panel at OODAcon 2023, "Our company’s business model is …
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Team designs robots to help with human habitation in space
In the coming decades, NASA plans to send human crews back to the moon, build a space station in lunar orbit, establish a permanent base on the lunar surface, and—hopefully—send astronauts to …
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NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction
Bad news if you want to move to the moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as always) is thinking ahead, and has just shown off a self-assembling robotic structure that …
It’s 2024. Time to Have Attribution Standards in Cyberspace
A recent article raised the question if North Kora was actually the perpetrator of the cyber attacks against Sony Pictures in December 2014. Despite the difficulties typically …
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