New UN forum seeks busting space traffic cooperation barriers
US officials say they hope the talks spur greater transparency from China in particular about satellite operations.
DoD needs to clarify Space Force roles and missions: Mitchell workshop
The new report cautions the Space Force against an "over reliance" on commercial capabilities and worries that Space Force is not concentrating enough on the need to win future space conflicts not simply "endure" attacks.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Lots of ‘buzz’ but no ‘compelling’ military value for cislunar space: CSIS
A new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies details a number of serious obstacles to cislunar operations, from a lack of robust business cases to the literal fabric of time.
France, Germany join US space warfighting plan ‘Olympic Defender’
SPACECOM's releases today characterize Operation Olympic Defender as "a multinational effort that focuses to optimize space operations, improve mission assurance, enhance resilience of space-based systems, synchronize efforts to strengthen deterrence against hostile actors and reduce the spread of debris orbiting the Earth."
Despite conventional wisdom, space arms control verification possible: Aerospace Corporation
"This paper ... provides a framework that could help ensure that verification challenges are not used as a convenient excuse for giving up on space arms control as an option," writes author Mick Gleason.
Space Force faces ‘bellicose’ PLA willing to risk escalation: RAND
The RAND study warns that due to "inflated threat perceptions" about US intentions, Chinese leaders tend to "interpret U.S.-led efforts to establish crisis communication mechanisms or broader space norms as tools to control China's behavior."
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
European Defense Fund invests in ‘Bodyguard’ satellite development to ‘counteract’ orbital threats
The project is designed "to increase Europe’s independence and superiority in space," the EDF's two-page fact sheet says.
For space, two steps forward, one step back: 2023 in review
The Space Force has made some visible progress in its "pivot" towards resiliency, but acquisition reform remains a hard slog.
UN takes ‘parallel’ paths on space security amid geopolitical rift
One new working group, led by the UK and US, will focus on norms; the other, led by Russia and China, will draft legal treaty.
Germany inks Artemis Accords, citing ‘security impact’ in space
Germany is not the first European country to join, but as a political and economic center of the continent, Berlin's move could convince several others to follow suit.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Russia spikes UN effort on norms to reduce space threats
Only a small number of nations, including Venezuela, Iran and China, supported Russia's objections, especially its rejection of responsible behavior as a foundation for norms.
Norms plus counterspace weapons: RAND recommends holistic strategy to deter space attack
"The prospects for complete success in deterrence of hostile attacks on space assets, particularly reversible, nondestructive attacks, are limited," the RAND study cautions.
SILENTBARKER ‘watchdog’ to be ‘exponential’ leap in DoD monitoring of Chinese, Russian sats
As the Space Force prepares to launch highly classified space domain awareness satellites, China calls foul on purported close approaches to its sats by existing US birds.
EU embraces Biden administration’s limited ASAT test ban as UN meeting looms
The EU move, which comes in the run up to the final meeting of the UN working group to prevent space threats at the end of the month, brings the number of countries supporting the limited ASAT testing ban up to 35.