{
  "id": 19341,
  "url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-commercial-space-race",
  "title": "The Commercial Space Race",
  "summary": "A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both countries look to the commercial space sector to help them get ahead in both the space race and defense technologies. We asked five experts: What is a crucial step for the United States to take now to stay ahead in commercial space comp",
  "authors": "Rebekah Reed",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T18:14:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "x-war-on-the-rocks",
  "source_name": "War on the Rocks",
  "source_homepage": "https://warontherocks.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19341",
  "original_url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-commercial-space-race",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}