China and the Fight for Orbital Dominance
The growing competition in space between the United States and China is no longer theoretical or confined to science fiction. The recent Financial Times interactive report “Space Weapons”…
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The growing competition in space between the United States and China is no longer theoretical or confined to science fiction. The recent Financial Times interactive report “Space Weapons”…
14 May 2026: Frequent Flash readers are no doubt tracking China’s ongoing efforts to deploy proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) constellations. Chinese civilian and military leadership have taken…
8 April 2026: The 2026 Secure World Foundation Global Counterspace Capabilities Report assesses the continued expansion of counterspace capabilities across 13 countries and highlights the increasing integration of…
8 Apr 2026: LtGen (R) John Shaw (and Friend of the Flash) authored an article on the coming Age of Space Maneuver in Forbes. Excerpts below and you…
12 Mar 2026: China’s National People’s Congress officially adopted the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (15th FYP). The document is intended to guide China’s social…
23 Dec 2025: The US Department of Defense/War released its annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China. The document highlights…
Nov 2025: The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released its 2025 Annual Report to Congress on November 18, 2025, offering 28 bipartisan recommendations to address rising…
15 Jan 2026: In a recent Satellite Markets and Research article , (Friend of the Flash) Blaine Curcio provided an excellent look a the rapidly evolving satellite communications…
Nov 2025: Next month China will approve its 15th Five-Year plan in which it identifies its developmental focus areas for 2026-2030. The new plan states that establishing China…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers 26 Jan 2026: China is accelerating efforts to master reusable rocket technology, a capability critical to lowering launch costs and increasing mission tempo. According…
By Dr. Larissa Beavers The CNA report “ Russian Concepts of Future Warfare Based on Lessons from the Ukraine War ” examines how Russian military elites’ strategic and…
25 Nov 2025: Tahir Azad published an article in Small Wars Journal describing China’s “growing satellite networks, which include navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), communications, and missile…
3 Oct 2025: Stephen Clark of Ars Technica (and friend of the Flash) released an article describing how removing the 50 largest pieces of debris, as identified by…
CASIC released a five-year commercial-space plan covering launch services, satellite constellations, solid-fueled rockets, a reusable spaceplane and the Xingyun IoT constellation.
NASA announced that the United States and seven other nations signed the Artemis Accords, a draft set of rules and norms for exploring the Moon.
10 Aug: In doing research into China's growing pLEO Guowang constellation I kept running across the 3 “High Orbit Internet Satellites” (aka “Hulianwan Gaogui” in the Space-track.org catalog)…
28 Jan 2022: China released a new white paper outlining the centrality of space to the country's “overall national strategy” as well as major plans for the years…
9 Feb 2022: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (revealed the plans in an annual ‘blue book' on space activities. The updated target, coupled with the launch plans…
2 Feb 2022: The Washington Post published an article taking a closer look at China's its first white paper on space-related activities in five years. The author highlights…
24 Feb 2022: Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, unleashed a tweetstorm in response to the threat of US sanctions that could impact the space program.…
10 Feb 2022: At a press conference, Zhao Lijian, spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said China was open to more formal lines of communication with the…
1 Mar 2022: Romania became the 16th country to sign the NASA-led Artemis Accords for cooperation in space exploration - Marius-Ioan Piso, the longtime head of the Romanian…
4 Mar 2022: In response to International Sanctions, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin has withdrawn Russian space support to international missions. - Cooperation between Roscosmos and other…
7 Mar 2022: Bahrain became the 17th country to join the Artemis Accords regarding principles for cooperation in space exploration and expands beyond traditional spacefaring nations. - Mohamed…