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Artist's concept of a solar panel array on Mars. Credit: Redwire

Accelerating investment in the final frontier: leveraging administrative approvals to bolster commercial space development

by Mike Gold May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

Space food on display at the National Museum of China. Credit: Shujianyang via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0

Space cuisine and the foundation of new space culture

by Zachary "Gene" Botkin May 14, 2025May 5, 2025

Illustration of NASA's Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.

by Mary Anne Limbach May 13, 2025May 7, 2025

Computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Credit: NASA

Space debris crisis: the national security threat we’re ignoring

by Ken Eppens May 13, 2025May 6, 2025

Countering China’s space stalkers: helping turn Competitive Endurance from theory into practice

by Brian G. Chow May 12, 2025May 8, 2025

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks at the Air and Space Forces Association 2024 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich

Accelerating the path for commercial space integration (and implementation) remains a DoD and national security priority

by Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch May 12, 2025May 2, 2025

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA STSCI

Trump assaults American space science

by Robert Zubrin May 9, 2025May 6, 2025

A satellite image of Europe. Credit: European Defence Agency.

Startups need a clear path to working with the European Defence Agency

by Robert Brüll May 9, 2025April 28, 2025

Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error.

From the Magazine

The best way to prepare humans for Mars? The moon.

by Erik Antonsen, Jennifer Rochlis, Bruce Jakosky and Scott Hubbard May 8, 2025May 12, 2025

Iceye Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery of NATO HQ in Brussels, Belgium. Credit: Iceye

Beyond Golden Dome: why effective missile defense begins far left of launch

by Eric Jensen May 8, 2025May 7, 2025

Stellar Dispatch

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Defense Satellites to redefine Global Earth Observation Strategy

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