Loss of Starlink access is disrupting Russian artillery operations in Ukraine, reducing the effectiveness of Moscow’s core combat power.
Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries have detected Russia developing a "zone-effect" anti-satellite weapon aimed at Elon Musk's Starlink network, which could scatter hundreds of thousands of ...
The United States probably cannot break Russia off from China in the military technology sector. But it can recognize that there are tensions between the two, and do its best to grow them.
Russia has quietly taken a science fiction staple and turned it into a legal blueprint, securing a patent for a rotating orbital outpost that would create artificial gravity for crews. The design ...
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it expects a damaged launchpad critical to International Space Station operations to be fixed by the end of February. “Launch readiness: end of February 2026,” ...
Russia's Nov. 15, 2021 destructive ASAT test created thousands of pieces of orbital debris. Credit: COMSPOC/CSSI Volumetric Analysis, with rendering by AGI, an ANSYS Company WASHINGTON — The United ...
For several years now, in discussing plans for its human spaceflight program beyond the International Space Station, Russian officials would proudly bring up the Russian Orbital Station, or ROS. The ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is due to retire soon, plunging into the South Pacific Ocean after being dragged down through Earth’s atmosphere. But perhaps not all of the space station will be ...
Officials recently sounded the alarm over Russia intercepting communications from European satellites. But this isn’t a new problem. Ever since the initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, two Russian ...
A Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft prepares to launch to the International Space Station with Expedition 52 astronauts at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 28, 2017, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Credit: Joel Kowsky ...
US sanctions on Russia’s space industry triggered a rapid restructuring, focused on domestic production, Chinese cooperation, and new partners across the Global South. Few observers expected Western ...
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