China recovers Moon rocks, advances reusable launchers
Geostrategy-Direct, June 25, 2024 By Richard Fisher In the last week China has advanced its ambitions for Moon control and space control via two operations: first on June 26 (more…)
China signals manned Moon advances with SLV engine test
Geostrategy-Direct, June 18, 2024 By Richard Fisher China has presented evidence that its manned Moon program is real, not just an endless collection of journal articles, power point briefings (more…)
On 4th Starship flight, SpaceX significantly sustained communications through reentry
Geostrategy-Direct, June 11, 2024 By Richard Fisher For its fourth flight — in less than a year — on June 6, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship epitomized what the SpaceX (more…)
Chang’e-6 sample-return mission advances China’s program for Moon control
Geostrategy-Direct, June 4, 2024 By Richard Fisher The Chinese and American “new race” to the Moon was advanced by two major developments in the first week of June 2024. (more…)
China deploys North Korean space coercion at China-Japan-South Korea summit
Geostrategy-Direct, May 28, 2024 By Richard Fisher China’s play was a classic exercise in coercion straight out of a 1930s gangland movie: Pay me and I will make sure (more…)
Oops: U.S. to build ‘offensive’ space military capabilities after Biden arms control fail
Geostrategy-Direct, May 21, 2024 By Richard Fisher In an April 18, 2022 speech at Vandenburg Space Force Base, a key space launch facility for the U.S. Department of Defense, (more…)
Tracking its Angara A5 SLV and Russia’s space ambitions
Geostrategy-Direct, May 14, 2024 By Richard Fisher Despite its many self-inflicted crises and its increasing political-economic subordination to China, Russia is still striving for a superpower level space program (more…)
China’s Chang’e-6 simulates future manned Moon missions
Geostrategy-Direct, May 7, 2024 By Richard Fisher On April 17 before the U.S. House of Representative Committee on Appropriations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) director Bill Nelson expressed (more…)
Can Elon Musk survive the U.S.-China existential competition?
Geostrategy-Direct, April 30, 2024 By Richard Fisher Elon Musk’s “surprise” April 28 visit to China to meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, blowing off a meeting with Indian Prime (more…)