DefenceTalkForty years after US president Ronald Reagan stunned the nation and world with his “Star Wars” plan to take nuclear competition into outer space, a new battle of the satellites has emerged in the stratosphere. Largely because it far outpaced technology at the time, very little became of Reagan’s March 23, 1983 declaration that the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/reagans-star-wars-at-40-battle-of-the-satellites-79964/

DefenceTalkUS Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten’s statement that Russia and China will soon pose a threat to American spacecraft resembles nothing so much as an attempt to justify the militarization of space by the Pentagon, Russian military expert Konstantin Sivkov told RIA Novosti. The US continues to take steps toward the militarization of space, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-could-reset-star-wars-at-full-throttle-toward-militarization-of-space-68944/

DefenceTalkCooperation with private firms will benefit the US space industry but cannot replace cooperation with Russia. Washington risks seeing its space projects hit hard if it abandons cooperation with Moscow, Bloomberg says. NASA has been actively promoting commercial projects to develop new-generation space rockets, supply vehicles and spaceships capable of carrying astronauts to low-Earth orbits […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-may-lose-star-wars-to-russia-59792/