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May 3, 2021 KEN: Every day we share what’s called the EIB High Note, and today’s EIB High Note is the nighttime splashdown for NASA. Now yesterday, the four-astronaut crew of SpaceX, the Dragon Resilience, returned safely from the international station. They were up there for 168 days. At about 3 a.m., they landed in the Gulf of Mexico. This was the first nighttime return to earth for NASA since Apollo 8, which was the first mission to orbit the Moon in 1968. Like millions of you, Rush was fascinated by space exploration. Today’s EIB High Note is Rush recalling the time he met the astro...

NationofChange Space weaponization “cannot be walked back” “It’s time for arms control planning to address the issues raised by this drift toward militarization of space.” The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization of space issue. His background includes being an International Affairs Specialist for the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and a Military Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs. He is familiar with war first-hand: he was a company commander in Vietnam. He holds a doctorat...

Advertisement As one of the world’s most technologically advanced societies, Japan is as dependent upon access to space as any country in the world. Much like the United States and Western Europe, the Japanese economy requires spaced-based communications technology to knit together the fabric of its industrial base. Indeed, by some estimates Japan has the fourth most orbital satellites in the world. Although the Japanese Self-Defense Forces do not operate in the same geographic scope as their U.S. or European counterparts, they still require satellite technology for communications and surve...

Share this article CULVER CITY, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Space Association (NSSA) was honored to host a celebration of the life, legacy and career of the late General Thomas S. Moorman with a virtual memorial service on April 14, 2021. The service was attended by several hundred nationwide, including several former Air Force Secretaries, Air Force Chiefs and Vice Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Space Command Commanders, and Intelligence Community Senior Executives, as well as a wide range of current and former executives within the space industry. The two-hou...

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 21, 2021 at 10:55 AM Gen. David (DT) Thompson WASHINGTON: The Space Force is working to expand acquisition of commercial space services from satellite communications to include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and analysis, officials say. “Comms, data relay, remote sensing, and even ISR and some other things — [these] capabilities are increasingly available in the commercial market,” Space Force deputy Lt. Gen. DT Thompson told the 2021 C4ISR Conference today. Thus, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) head Lt. Gen. JT Thompson (no r...