The last couple of weeks have been big ones for space in the US. Vice President Pence chaired the newly re-formed US National Space Council, the peak body for charting US space policy, which had …
Space fans had a couple of big days last week at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide. The government’s announcement of an Australian space agency on the first day of the five-day conference was important …
Sea state The relative lull in the South China Sea disputes has been broken. A small flotilla of Chinese ships is reportedly blocking access to Sandy Cay, a small group of sand bars near Philippine-occupied …
Welcome to the brand-new five-domains update! Except, not really—it’s just been expanded. The update now has five sections, covering all the domains of the military operating environment: sea (‘Sea state’), air (‘Flight path’), land (‘Rapid …
The world of space has entered a new era. Over the past two months, barriers thought unbreakable just five years ago have been shattered. In the US, SpaceX re-landed first-stage boosters of its second-hand Falcon …