A budget proposal for the Department of Commerce raises new doubts about the future of a civil space traffic management system under development there.

Britain and the United States have discussed military options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries roughly 20–21% of the world’s daily oil consumption and has become one of the most dangerous chokepoints in global shipping since Iran moved to close it in the escalation following the US-Iran conflict that began in […]

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If China confirms usable water-ice at the lunar south pole before NASA even launches its own prospecting rover, the geopolitical consequences will far outweigh the scientific ones. Whoever first establishes what’s actually in those permanently shadowed craters doesn’t just answer a research question — they set the terms for how lunar resources get claimed, governed, […]

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