Sana Pashankar

2 weeks ago | torontosun.com | Bruce Einhorn |Sana Pashankar

America’s foes are racing to develop strategic footholds in space, from China’s satellite ‘dogfighting’ operations to Russia’s development of nuclear anti-satellite weapons, but the Space Force’s supporters say the youngest and smallest U.S. military branch hasn’t received the money it needs to counter those threats in the new military space age.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Bruce Einhorn |Sana Pashankar

President Donald Trump at a White House ceremony displaying the Space Force’s new flag in 2020. (Bloomberg) -- Five years after its formation during President Donald Trump’s first administration prompted jokes about the Star Trek-style logo and inspired a Netflix Inc. sitcom with Steve Carell, the US Space Force is still looking for respect.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Sana Pashankar

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2024. (Bloomberg) -- NASA is delaying the earliest potential next flight of Boeing Co.’s troubled Starliner spacecraft to 2026, pushing back a key milestone for a vehicle meant to serve as an alternative to the Dragon spacecraft owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The agency had previously said that Starliner’s next flight to the International Space Station could occur as early as the end of this year.

3 weeks ago | americanmilitarynews.com | Loren Grush |Sana Pashankar

Elon Musk seemingly backed down from a threat to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft that ferries cargo and people to the International Space Station for the U.S., made during an escalation of a spat between the billionaire and President Donald Trump. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is the company’s primary vehicle for sending astronauts and cargo to orbit.

3 weeks ago | bloomberglinea.com | Loren Grush |Courtney McBride |Sana Pashankar

Bloomberg — La dramática disputa del jueves entre Elon Musk y Donald Trump ha ido más allá del vitriolo en Internet para tener repercusiones en la vida real: la amenaza de cortar una parte vital del programa espacial estadounidense. Musk dijo que desmantelará la nave espacial Dragon de SpaceX, que transporta carga y personas a la Estación Espacial Internacional para EE.UU.