The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth
By Thomas Cheney
A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man’s home in Florida. NASA later confirmed that the object had...
The new attack surface: from space to smartphone
By Jamie Munro
Imagine having seamless mobile broadband access anywhere on Earth, from the most remote deserts and oceans to disaster zones, all without...
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The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth
By Thomas Cheney
A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man’s home in Florida. NASA later confirmed that the object had...
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The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth
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With multiple milestones met for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), the U.S. Army’s modernization program for missile defense, the Army now plans to...
The new attack surface: from space to smartphone
By Jamie Munro
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Defence Implications of Augmented and Virtual Reality
Dr Robert J Bunker
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) represent cross-dimensional components of advanced—aka 5th dimensional—battlespace. They can be viewed as core disruptive technologies that...
What will happen in the first space hostage crisis?
By JD Cole, Marc Feldman, and Hugh Taylor
Hostage taking for profit is as old as humanity. More than 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar was...
Is the United States doing enough to engage with China on space policy?
By Mariam Kvaratskhelia
While Beijing has accused the United States of turning outer space into “a weapon and a battlefield,” it has no less a...
The age of space skepticism and a growing revolt against elites
Over the past decade, a new form of skepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be based exclusively in the...
Networking vehicles on the future battlefield
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are teaming with industry to develop capabilities for future armored combat vehicles for fast networking-on-the-move, cyber security, situational...
Electronic warfare on the ground
U.S. Army cyber warfare experts are rediscovering electronic warfare (EW) for ground operations, as centralized command authorities combine cyber and EW operations into a...
No minerals, no missiles: the supply chain crisis impacting defence
The modern battlefield is not only shaped by advanced weaponry and sophisticated technology, but also by the critical minerals that make these innovations possible.
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Germany can co-finance European nuclear deterrence
By Karl-Heinz Kamp
Europe has recognized the dramatic nature of the situation and developed ideas to strengthen the British and French nuclear deterrent. Both European nuclear powers...
Prospects for orbital data centers
By Lawrence Furnival
In the near future, orbital data centers could prove to be an important new revenue stream for launch providers and cloud services....
Guarding against cyberattacks in space
by Patrick Lin
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications...
Could optical computing be poised for mainstream aerospace and defense information processing?
Optical computing has been "the next big thing" now for decades. This enabling technology holds so much potential because it offers huge advances in data...
The overlap between the space and longevity industries
By Dylan Taylor
As the nascent space sector takes off, commercialization and space tourism are expected to grow increasingly prominent. To prepare for long-term spaceflight,...

