The Global Network

        Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Menu
  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • History of GN
    • 30 years of peace in space activism
    • Keep Space for Peace Week
      • KSFPW 2022 Event List
      • KS4PW 2022 Report on Events
    • Board of Directors
    • Affiliates
  • ‘Organizing Notes’ Blog
    • Bruce Gagnon
    • ‘This Issue’ TV
  • News/Reports/Issues
    • News and Articles
      • Archived Articles
      • Environmental Effects
        • Toxic Rocket Pollution
        • Plutonium Contamination
      • Archived BMD Articles
    • GN Reports
      • Reports and Newsletters from Aotearoa
    • Nuclear Power in Space
      • Nuclear Incidents in Space
      • Plutonium Contamination
    • Conversion
    • Space Colonisation & Mining
  • Events
  • Resources
    • Materials
    • Newsletters
    • Videos
    • Useful Places/Tools
  • Contact Us
    • Membership
  • Donate

Space Force

Space Force looking to deploy radar satellites to track moving targets on the ground

May 12, 2021
| No Comments
| Satellites, Space Force, Surveillance

By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 12 May 2021 Raymond: The Space Force and the Air Force are “actively working” on concepts for the deployment of GMTI satellites WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force wants to use small radar satellites to track moving objects on the ground and the Space

Read More

E8-C GMTI system, Credit: USAF

Space Force Aims to Take on an Air Force Surveillance Mission

May 12, 2021
| No Comments
| Satellites, Space Force, Surveillance

By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 12 May 2021 Ground Moving Target Indicator satellites would begin to replace decades-old aircraft as the newest service expands its mission set. A few years ago, the Air Force began looking at ways to replace its JSTARS surveillance aircraft, to ensure it could

Read More

Space Force seeks bids for rocket engine testing and space transportation technologies

May 11, 2021
| No Comments
| Rockets, Space Force, SpaceX

By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 11 May 2021 Projects will be co-funded by the government and contractors under “other transactions authority” agreements managed by the Space Enterprise Consortium WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on May 11 issued three requests for industry proposals on technologies that the military will

Read More

House Defense leader: Space Force hasn’t met expectations for speedy tech

May 8, 2021
| No Comments
| Missile Defense, Satellites, Space Force

By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 8 May 2021 WASHINGTON — One of the top lawmakers in charge of the defense budget raised doubts Friday about whether the U.S. Space Force has lived up to its promise to reform the way it purchases space systems. While the nascent service has

Read More

US DoD close to finalizing recommendations for Space Force National Guard

May 7, 2021
| No Comments
| News, Space Force

By Evan Craighead, Published by Space War, 7 May 2021 Washington DC (Sputnik) - The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) called on the US Department of Defense to provide the US Congress with recommendations for a potential Space Force Reserve element. Presently, members of the National Guard are conducting

Read More

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown (left), John Roth, acting secretary of the Air Force and Gen. John Raymond, Space Force chief of space operations, testify in a virtual hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee May 7, 2021. Credit: HAC-D

Defense appropriators ‘disappointed’ with management of Space Force acquisitions

May 7, 2021
| No Comments
| Missile Defense, Satellites, Space Command, Space Force, Spending

By Sandra Erwin, Published by Spacenews, 7 May 2021 Rep. Betty McCollum: 'Too often over the past two decades, space acquisition programs have been delivered late and over budget.' WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has moved quickly to organize its operational units since it was established 16 months ago.

Read More

Proposed Space National Guard Gathers Momentum

May 4, 2021
| No Comments
| News, Space Force, Spending

By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 4 May 2021 A space-focused branch of the Guard would aim to give the Space Force “a surge-to-war capability” in times of conflict. The National Guard will soon deliver recommendations to the defense secretary on how to establish a space-focused component of the

Read More

The Russia/China Space Weaponization Treaty

April 28, 2021
| No Comments
| China, Russia, Space Force, Space Treaties, Space Weapons

By Karl Grossman, Published by CounterPunch 28 April, 2021 “Let’s be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back,” stated retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb in a piece in the The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization of space issue.

Read More

  • 20 of 24
  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • …
  • 24
  • Next »

Working to Keep Space for Peace for 30 years

Mail PO Box 652, Brunswick ME 04011 USA
About the GN

We are an international network of organisations and individuals who are concerned about the militarisation and exploitation of space.

Phone:(207) 844-8187

Email:globalnet@mindspring.com

Facebookwww.facebook.com/space4peace

Useful Links
  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Newsletters
  • Videos
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
Latest Posts
  • Space-to-ground capabilities are the answer to deterring invasion of Taiwan
    January 30, 2023
  • Lockheed Martin DEIMOS Laser Weapon Achieves First Light
    January 25, 2023
  • NASA and DARPA to partner on nuclear thermal propulsion demonstration
    January 24, 2023
The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space