Beijing is not simply preparing for a summit. It is constructing something more deliberate: a multi-front leverage architecture — a coordinated system of diplomatic, economic, and security pressures, synchronized across three continents, designed to ensure that when President Donald Trump arrives in China next month, the terms of negotiation have already been shaped in Beijing’s […]

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Three Earth observation satellites, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with European partners, and due to launch later this year, have completed their functional and environmental tests and are ready to travel to the European spaceport in French Guiana. But first, journalists were invited to have one last look.

For the first time, a branch of the U.S. military has publicly declared that its current force cannot survive the fight it expects to face — and has laid out, in 172 pages of granular detail, exactly what it intends to build instead. Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations, has […]

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Aethero is preparing to deploy its most powerful computing payload yet this fall, aiming to bring data center-style processing to orbit and expand the scale of AI workloads that can be handled in space.

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan had six weeks to distill all of human civilization onto a gold-plated record launched into interstellar space. The choices they made — what to include, what to leave out, and the hidden love story encoded in the disc — reveal more about how humanity sees itself than any alien might ever learn from it.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Commercial satellite operator PlanetiQ will develop and launch spacecraft equipped with next-generation instruments to gather terrestrial and space weather data with a $15 million U.S.

The fruit of years of U.S. counter-narcotics policy in the Eastern Pacific is coming under renewed scrutiny — and the legal questions surrounding the use of military force against suspected drug trafficking vessels are not going away. For decades, U.S. Southern Command, the Coast Guard, and allied naval forces have conducted interdiction operations targeting drug-laden […]

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NASA could lose contact with the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station by the end of this decade. The satellites that keep those missions connected to the ground are dying, and the spacecraft themselves cannot be retrofitted with new radios. If the agency doesn’t secure a replacement communications system before its aging Tracking […]

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Gen. Chance Saltzman has laid out the most detailed case yet for why the U.S. Space Force needs to fundamentally reinvent itself, releasing two strategy documents that describe a future where space conflict looks nothing like what the Pentagon has traditionally planned for. The documents, titled Future Operating Environment 2040 and Objective Force 2040, present […]

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Officials say the Space Development Agency’s ‘go fast’ model will live on under new portfolio-based organization