Special to WorldTribune, September 13, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, September 8, 2026 By Richard Fisher An “international” satellite project and a Sept. 5 revelation in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) indicate that China is moving to contest cislunar space, the strategic zone between the Earth and the Moon. On Sept. 4 state media […]
Special to WorldTribune, August 30, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, August 25, 2026 By Richard Fisher On Aug. 18 China’s LandSpace Corporation achieved the first first-stage vertical recovery for a reusable space launch vehicle (SLV) produced by a “privately” funded Chinese space company. The LandSpace Zhuque-3 two-stage SLV also achieved China’s first on-land first-stage vertical […]
Special to WorldTribune, August 14, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, August 11, 2026 By Richard Fisher For 20 years the New Zealand origin, now Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab corporation has developed innovative small space launch vehicles, growing into a space launch service provider and satellite developer, serving commercial and military markets in the United […]
Special to WorldTribune, August 2, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, July 28, 2026 By Richard Fisher The Philippines has ambitions to develop both a national space capability and a new military space force; Both should be opportunities for the Philippines and the United States to strengthen their alliance cooperation. During his July 27 State of […]
Special to WorldTribune, July 26, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, July 21, 2026 By Richard Fisher For both the United States and China, satellite megaconstellation companies require space launch vehicles (SLVs), or rockets, while SLV makers require customers — governments or companies that require their payload to be launched into space. In the United States […]
Special to WorldTribune, July 19, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, July 14, 2026 By Richard Fisher The video showed the big rocket’s first stage in recovery, then a huge crowd of people erupt in cheers — it was all very SpaceX-like — but only this video was of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation’s […]
Special to WorldTribune, July 5, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, June 30, 2026 By Richard Fisher While China has been considering the problems of asteroid defense since at least about 2020, there may now be real plans for the construction of a Chinese planetary defense capability — with inherit dual-use dangers. On June 30, Chinese […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 21, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, June 16, 2026 By Richard Fisher The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) revealed in August 2023 that it was working to compile a 100-year plan to populate the Earth’s nearby solar system. Thus, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which specializes in long term […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 12, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, June 9, 2026 By Richard Fisher The 54-year record of NASA- European Space Agency (ESA) cooperation is impressive, covering Skylab, the Hubble Space Telescope and its successor the Webb Space Telescope, and 26 individual Europeans have flown on NASA missions; 20 on Space Shuttle flights, […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 7, 2026 Real World News Geostrategy-Direct, June 2, 2026 By Richard Fisher While it appeared to be a significant setback, the May 28 spectacular explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn reusable space launch vehicle (SLV) may not result in a huge delay in the Moon Base building plans of the National […]
