By Thomas Claburn, Published by The Register, 2 June 2022 US think tank sees growing interest in counterspace capabilities In a report published earlier this week, the Secure World Foundation, a space-oriented NGO, warned that in the past few years there's been a surge of interest in offensive counterspace weapons
Published by RT, 23 April 2022 Dmitry Rogozin has argued that destruction of a spacecraft by a foreign power could lead to an armed conflict An attack against a spacecraft could usher in the next global war, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's national space agency Roscosmos, said on Saturday.
Published by Sputnik News, 20 April 2020 Vice President Kamala Harris announced on 19 April Washington's commitment to a ban on anti-satellite missile testing (ASAT) while visiting Vandenberg Space Force Base and called upon others to jump on the US bandwagon. What's behind the Biden administration's space initiative? "I would
By Michael Sheetz, Published by CNBC, 18 April 2022 Key Points The United States government has committed to ending the practice of anti-satellite missile tests, Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday.Plans for the move were set late last year, after the Russian military destroyed a defunct satellite with an anti-satellite
By Melissa de Zwart, Published by Newsroom, 13 April 2022 International agreement on a peace treaty for outer space has been lacking for decades. A new working group is attempting a different path, writes Melissa de Zwart in part three of a series on space in the shadow of war The use of
By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 7 March 2022 It's a form of pollution, after all. With increasing regularity, Earth's oceans are the drop zones for incoming leftovers from space. For decades, Russian Progress resupply spacecraft loaded with tons of waste from the International Space Station (ISS) have been intentionally
By Daria Bedenko, Published by Moon Daily, 15 February 2022 London , UK (Sputnik) - The protection of the Moon is clearly stated in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) - an international document that prohibits any state to appropriate the space rock or other celestial bodies. Researchers from the
By Karl Grossman, Presented at the Space Tourism: Legal Dimensions Conference, 29 January 2022 The push to turn space into a war zone could spell goodbye to space tourism. The space tourism drive that is underway, led by billionaires Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin company, Richard Branson and his
