As the US Space Force nears its third birthday, John Amble is joined by Dr. Moriba Jah on this episode to explore just how crowded the space domain is—especially with the surprising amount of detritus created over more than six decades of the Space Age. Dr. Jah is an aerospace engineer who has worked for NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is now an associate professor at the University of Texas, where he monitors space and works to track thousands of objects—a number that continues to grow—orbiting Earth.
In the era of big data, the minds of human analysts are no match for the processing power of computers fed with terabytes of...
This episode features a conversation with Ken Pollack, a military analyst and the author of Armies of Sand, a book that grapples with the...
In an era of renewed great power competition, what are the risks of that competition migrating to the Arctic region and Antarctica? How might...