Rebel News: The U.S. Space Force is preparing for a space war beyond the Earth’s orbit as its Chinese and Russian counterparts move to exert their dominance over the final frontier.
According to a report by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the plan is designed to oppose China and Russia’s joint effort at claiming cislunar space — the volume of space outside of Earth’s orbit but within the moon’s gravitational pull, the Washington Times reports. The plan was outlined in a memorandum between the Space Force and NASA, made public this week after China and Russia issued plans for a joint research station to be constructed on the surface of the moon.
Both Russia and China’s space programs are deeply aligned with their military organizations, and the development of a moon base would offer both countries a significant advantage in the race to control cislunar space.
The memo, which is dated to September, extends the U.S. military’s mission beyond near Earth to reach all the 272,000 miles to the moon. The extension of Space Force, which was established by former President Donald Trump, calls upon “guardians” (the Space Force’s official designation for its personnel) to develop greater surveillance assets in what the military calls “space domain awareness” in the event of a space war. more
Jesus wept! There’s so much fucked up with that attempt at a definition of “cislunar space” I couldn’t even begin to read the actual news account.
The Earth’s orbit is once around the Sun every year.
Everything in the universe is withing the Moon’s gravitational pull. Gravitational attraction diminishes by the inverse square of distance, but it never entirely disappears. It just gets too small to worry about for practical considerations.
Cislunar space is the space outside Earth’s atmosphere but inside the Moon’s orbit.
I didn’t have much regard for the Wash. Times, but such regard that I did have just dropped a bit. Don’t they have editors? Or even technologically literate writers?
The US military has about as much credibilty these days as the FBI. Their enemy is you and I.
Cislunar? Is that like cisgender? Haters! The DOD equity czar will make it translunar or homolunar so it is properly inclusive and not trying to breed moonlets all the time…
Approximately 50 years after Apollo 11 when the USA landed a man on the moon, the chink rat-bastards unleashed Covid-19 on the world.
The chink bastard country needs to be wiped from this planet in order for mankind to survive.
THEY ARE EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind is when we end the chinks for good.
Seriously, it’s us or them!
Don’t they mean “The new politically correct Space Force” after having fired one of their brightest officers for the unforgivable sin of being patriotic?
I thought the moon belonged to the U.S.Was I wrong?