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The one major development in the China ASAT saga in the last 24 hours was news that China officially admitted that it carried out the test, although it claims that it is still interested in the “peaceful development of outer space” and that the nation “has never, and will never, participate in any form of […] This weekend provided more opportunity for commentary about China’s ASAT test earlier this month, but also very little news. China continues to remain silent about the test, and that silence is the subject of much speculation in the US, the New York Times reports this morning. Some Americans officials, such as National Security Adviser Stephen […] While the US and a number of other countries are condemning the test of an ASAT weapon by the Chinese, Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov is taking a very different tack, claiming that the test actually did not take place. “I have heard such rather unsubstantiated reports, and I am afraid they are unfounded,” RIA […] The news first announced Wednesday night that China tested an ASAT weapon last week, destroying a satellite, became one of the biggest stories internationally yesterday. The report was confirmed by a National Security Council spokesman yesterday morning, and by the end of the day the US and other countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, and South […] Remember all the debate in the weeks and months following the release of the new national space policy that the US was opening the door to the weaponization of space—and perhaps imperiling the security of its own space assets—by appearing to go down the road of space weaponization? Now comes work from Aviation Week that […] For those of you interested in the new national space policy and its implications for national security, the Marshall Institute is hosting an event Monday morning, January 22nd, titled “Forum on National Security Space – Space Issues in 2007″. The three-hour hour event, held at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, is intended to “examine […] The Russian news agency RIA Novosti published an interesting commentary about US-Russia space cooperation earlier this week, one that indicates that at least some in Russia have an arguably warped perspective of US policy and intentions. The essay, by Novosti’s political commentator Andrei Kislyakov, claims that the national space policy released by the US last […] It’s been a little over three months since the Bush Administration quietly released the new national space policy. While the initial, somewhat delayed reaction to the policy (caused by the nature in which the policy was released) has died down, people are still talking about it, one way or another, even now. For example, Robert […] The University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center released the latest in its series of studies on public support for government spending today. (The full report is available here.) The report, which comes out every two years, is based on opinion polling where people are asked whether current spending for a wide array of government […] One of the hallmarks of British space policy for years has been its opposition to human spaceflight, preferring to devote its funding, including its contributions to ESA programs, to robotic Earth and space sciences missions. However, The Times of London reports that a major shift in policy may be in the works. Malcolm Wicks, the […] |
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