By Debra Werner, Published by Space News, 9 April 2024 COLORADO SPRINGS – U.S. Space Command seeks to expand international collaboration by inviting Germany, France and New Zealand to join Operation Olympic Defender. Olympic Defender, a U.S.-led initiative to jointly strengthen defenses and deter hostility, already includes England, Australia and
By Andrew Falle, Ewan Wright, Published by The Conversation, 7 November 2023 As the number of satellites in orbit increase, so will the possibilities of space debris. There are currently 8,000 satellites in orbit, but hundreds of thousands more are being proposed. In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning
By Tory Shepherd, Published by the Guardian, 28 November 2022 Attacks on satellites could take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, and affect military operations, panel at space conference says It would no longer be “life as we know it” if a space war destroyed the satellites that the
By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 2 September 2022 Spaceport America and other private space launch facilities worldwide have a new entrant to the market: Canada, which aims to fly 'green' rockets in 2023. Spaceport America is getting a Canadian competitor. A private Canadian rocket facility aims to send clean-tech
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 3 July 2022 WASHINGTON — The government of New Zealand has formally joined a U.S.-led ban on testing of destructive direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) weapons in an effort to build momentum for a global prohibition on such tests. In a July 1 speech at the
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 22 February 2022 The new military accord signed by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the US presages joint stance on future space norms. WASHINGTON: In a first public statement of intent, the US and its five closest military
By Sean Silcoff, Published by The Globa and Mail, 10 December 2021 The Canadian company is jockeying with SpaceX, Amazon and Telesat for room in orbit for tens of thousands of new machines. Critics say the space race could come at a cost on Earth A Canadian space startup has
By Joyce Nelson, Published by The Canada FIles, 20 September 2021 During the 2021 federal election campaign, there has been almost no emphasis or discussion in the media on the Liberal government’s plan to spend more than $553 billion on the military over the next 20 years, including the awarding
