Outer space

There is no secure communication for our armed forces without satellites in space.

— Pistorius said this during a visit to the rocket manufacturer Isar Aerospace in Ottobrunn near Munich.

By demonstrating we can quickly and cost-effectively extend [Swift's] lifetime, we're creating a blueprint for servicing spacecraft that were never designed for on-orbit maintenance.

— Ghonhee Lee, CEO of Katalyst Space Technologies, in a statement

It’s not the dress, which was a bore, it’s the face. It is the face.

— Megyn Kelly, television host, during coverage of Lauren Sánchez’s Met Gala appearance, stating that the problem was Sánchez’s face, not the dress.

Space superiority is a measure of the national vision for the future and willpower, and the technologies that Americans develop to achieve this superiority significantly contribute to the strength, security, and prosperity of the nation.

— President Donald Trump stated in the decree regarding the new American space policy.

We must, and this is the core task, also have and expand the capability for deterrence and defense in space. And there too, deterrence must be credible.

— Boris Pistorius during the presentation of the strategy paper on space security.