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Concerns grow after spate of social media posts showing SpaceX Starlink satellites burning in the sky — we are currently seeing a ‘couple of satellite re-entries a day,’ says respected astrophysicist

October 9, 2025
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| China, Satellites, SpaceX, Starlink

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off carrying 46 Starlink satellites. Credit: Space Launch Delta 45 By Mark Tyson, Published by Tom's Hardware, 9 October 2025 Starlink satellites are designed to completely burn up upon reentry, but every few months there are news reports about space debris impacting Earth. A recent

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A Philadelphia company’s obscured support for killing Palestinians with autonomous flying bombs

October 9, 2025
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| Drones, Israel, Palestine, Surveillance

Image source: Source Security By Jack Pulson, Posted on Substack, 9 October 2025 Philadelphia's Ghost Robotics elevated its exclusive partnership with the Israeli military drone manufacturer RoboTiCan as the company began advertising its usage for bombing indoor Palestinians. The Omer, Israel-based lethal drone manufacturer RoboTiCan's advertisements of its hybrid Rooster

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New Zealanders Get in the Way of the Weaponization of Space

October 8, 2025
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| BlackSky, Drones, Dual and Commercial Use, New Zealand, Protest, Rocket Lab, Spending, Surveillance

By Deborah Williams, Published by World Beyond War, 8 October 2025 Here is breaking news from my city Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. The aerospace industry here started with a simple New Zealand-owned rocket site industry in the North Island named RocketLab operating on Māori land on the Mahia Peninsula.

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‘Thrown backwards into a garden’: Activists allege rough treatment as police make dozens of arrests

October 8, 2025
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| Drones, Dual and Commercial Use, New Zealand, Protest, Uncategorized

Activists block entrances to Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre; FROM VIDEO by Poppy Clark By Poppy Clark and Sandra Arambepola, Published by Stuff, 8 October 2025 Police have made dozens of arrests as protesters tried to stop the National Aerospace Summit at Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre on Wednesday morning.

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn New Glenn’s second stage tank at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL., July 14, 2022. (Photo: Blue Origin)

Blue Origin wins $78.2 million contract to expand satellite processing infrastructure at Cape Canaveral

October 7, 2025
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| Blue Origin, Dual and Commercial Use, Launch sites, Satellites, Space Force, Space Systems Command, Spending

Blue Origin’s New Glenn New Glenn’s second stage tank at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, FL., July 14, 2022. (Photo: Blue Origin) By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 7 October 2025 The contract is a public-private partnership agreement awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command WASHINGTON

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A Peaceful Space Environment For All

October 7, 2025
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Artist's Impression of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: NASA By John Barentine,Principal Consultant and Executive Officer at Dark Sky Consulting and co-founder of Space Environmentaism A Blog for Keep Space for Peace Week, October 2025 Outer space is changing rapidly, especially the space near Earth. Private actors now dominate the human technological

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