An amusing article that examines the growing number of space-messaging efforts. These projects allow the public to send a personal message either on a cd-rom on an interplanetary space probe or beamed out digitally using a radio telescope.

A robot that can refuel and service America's spy satellites while they are in orbit is being developed by Department of Defense researchers. The new system could extend a satellite's life many times over, as it would no longer drop out of orbit and burn up once its fuel was all used.

Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin argued that corporate interests rather than valid security concerns are behind U.S. plans to deploy a national missile defense system.

The Air Force is currently planning to test a constellation of earth-orbiting space lasers in 2012. The space based lasers would be used to destroy ballistic missiles and enemy satellites.

The Pentagon's planned National Missile Defense (NMD) system to knock out enemy missiles from rogue nations is fundamentally flawed because it could be easily thwarted, according to a panel of independent senior physicists and engineers.

Peter Glaser argues that humanity should meet its future energy needs with space solar power.

A new report from the energy think-tank 'Resources for the Future' concludes that space solar power will not be competitive with conventional energy for the near future but should be pursued as a means of meeting space power needs.

An interview with Gene McCall of the Air Force Space Command on the future of the U.S. space warfare effort.

Several U.S. companies are racing to be the first private venture to land on the moon.

9 out of every 10 'fireballs', or small asteroids that break through the earth's atmosphere, go unnoticed except by military satellites in the DSP network. Military and civillian experts argue that the defense department should make this data available to the public in a systematic and timely fashion to avoid potential nuclear miscalculations.