FPI / May 2, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher April 24 was an active day for the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC); It successfully launched its 20th Shenzhou manned space capsule mission atop its 3.35-meter diameter Long March-3F space launch vehicle (SLV). New information that surfaced the same day affirmed that its future […]
FPI / April 25, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Without having to respond to a free press or an inquisitive legislature, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is free to define government transparency as it pleases, usually minimally in order to deny critical insights to adversaries looking to defend themselves from CCP aggression. This is case […]
FPI / April 18, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In December 2017, President Donald Trump revived the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) manned mission to the Moon after it had been cancelled by President Barack Obama in 2010. Then, in his Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration speech, Trump lifted NASA’s goals higher by declaring, “And […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News April 17, 2025 A team of astronomers say they have discovered the “strongest indication yet” for extraterrestrial life. Repeated analyses of the atmosphere of the planet known as K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light years from Earth, have found a high concentration of a molecule that, on […]
FPI / April 11, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s first term establishment of the U.S. Space Force in December 2019 was a long-delayed response to China’s creation of a dual-use manned and unmanned military space capability. But a new Space Force Doctrine Document issued on April 4 now outlines the justification for […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News April 11, 2025 The commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland has been relieved of duty after she sent an email to all personnel at the base after Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent visit distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s national security policy on […]
FPI / April 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland highlighted one of the U.S.’s lesser known but increasingly vital military facilities. Situated on Greeland’s remote northwest coast and positioned just 750 miles (1,200 km) north of the Arctic Circle and less than 1,000 miles […]
FPI / March 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For decades it has been the fervent dream of Western Liberals that mankind keep wars on Earth, and that for the benefit of humanity, only pursue peaceful cooperation in space. From the 1990s onward, many of these liberals, especially in the Obama Administration, thought that cooperation […]
FPI / March 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s state-owned and government subsidized “private” space sector has taken great liberties in trying to copy the pioneering concepts of Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation, in particular the SpaceX innovation of reusable medium and heavy space launch vehicles (SLVs). Now, one Chinese private space company is copying […]
FPI / March 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It has been a week of momentous space news for the United States, with the March 2 landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost unmanned Moon lander, the March 6 failure of the second Intuitive Machines unmanned moon lander, and the March 6 spectacular failure of […]
