The Downlink [Sep 10, 22] Classified Deliberations: Chinese and Russian Weapons Systems Using Space, Options to Counter Them
The Pentagon on Friday released a readout of a close-hold classified meeting of the Defense…
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The Downlink [Sep 03, 22] Engineering Economies of Scale on Earth To Be First
While NASA tests its Space Launch System to usher in a new age of human…
The DownLink [Aug 28, ’22] Artemis I & SLS – Not Your Usual Pre-Launch Coverage
NASA is billing Monday’s $4.1b Artemis I mission launch, a test of the Space Launch…
The DownLink [Aug 21, ’22] Space-Based Solar Power – ESA Is Primed To Do More Than Admire The Problem
The European Space Agency’s Director General Josef Aschbacher this week announced on LinkedIn that the…
The DownLink [Aug 14, ’22] Space-Based Solar Power and the U.K.’s Bet That Science Fiction May Become Science-Fact
Is this sci-fi? Or could there be a space-based solution to securing reliable, renewable, and…
The DownLink [Aug 07, ’22] More Than Norms, Perhaps Space Needs Rules
Will norms of space behavior be enough to protect the $469 billion-dollar and growing space economy, the government-funded exploration and science programs, and the critical defense assets in orbit? Perhaps what’s needed is a bit stronger and binding. Like rules. Laura Winter speaks with Kevin O’Connell, the former Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce, under the Trump Administration; Mir Sadat, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and an Adjunct Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute; and Julia Siegel, the assistant director of the Forward Defense practice in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Together they discuss Sadat and Seigel’s policy paper, “Space traffic management: Time for action”, which you can read here: www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-rese…e-for-action/.
The DownLink [Jul 31, ’22] What’s Behind Russia’s Departure from the International Space Station
Sure. It’s easy to simply pin Russia’s announcement that it is quitting the International Space…
The DownLink [Jul 24, ’22] When is a Space Company the Right Fit for a Community?
Space companies bring high-paying high-tech jobs and create revenue for local businesses, and municipal and…
The DownLink [Jul 17, ’22] Commercial Space Is Hitting Economic Headwinds
Macroeconomic forces are just as inescapable as gravity. The commercial space sector is not immune…
The DownLink [Jul 10, ’22] Look At The Numbers. Are We Serious About Space?
The U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond said Sunday that China “enjoys the same space capabilities and the same advantages that we currently enjoy.” That sounds a lot like parity. Congress is including inflation in its calculus, but what about what’s needed for deterrence in the space domain? To take a closer look at the numbers and what they mean, Laura Winter is joined by Peter Garretson, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, coauthor of “Scramble for the Skies The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space”, and the host of AFPC’s Space Strategy Podcast; and Christopher Stone who is a senior fellow for space studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and the author of “Reversing the Tao: A Framework for Credible Space Deterrence”.