By Dave Webb, Posted by Yorkshire CND, 19 July 2021 The willingness of the UK to host another US military space facility seems like another ill-informed and short-sighted move in Boris Johnson’s vision of Britain remaining a significant force in the world. Although the proposed high powered radar installation is
By George Kerevan, Published by the National, 19 July 2021 IT is a product of Scotland’s subordinate status that when the great powers clash it is Caledonia that instantly becomes the proxy front line. Sixty years ago, on March 3, 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the US
By Mattha Busby, Published by the Guardian, 17 July 2021 RAF chief says system to track objects up to 22,000 miles from Earth is ‘incredibly important’ An American space force plan to develop a global monitoring system to track objects up to 22,000 miles from Earth could establish radar stations
By Jonathan Beale, Published by BBC News, 16 July 2021 The US wants to locate a giant new radar system in the UK to track objects in deep space. The US Space Force is developing the global system to identify potential "targets" up to 36,000km away, in areas of deep
By Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 14 July 2021 London UK (SPX) - One of the biggest challenges facing the space sector is orbital congestion and space debris. There are currently around 3,000 working satellites in orbit, and an estimated 130 million other pieces of debris, including old satellites,
By Dani Garavelli, Published by The Sctosman, 20 June 2021 Sutherland “space crofters” Dorothy Pritchard and Wilma Robertson are standing on the Mhoine - a peat bog stretching from Loch Eriboll to the Kyle of Tongue - and talking about rockets. Situated on the western periphery of the Flow Country,
By Haroon Siddique, Published by The Guardian, 25 Mat 2021 Human rights judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing revelations The UK spy agency GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy and the regime for collection of data was unlawful,
By UK Government, Published 24 May 2021 Satellites and rockets could launch from UK soil in 2022, with spaceports planned for Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. government paves the way for commercial space launches from UK soil with new regulationsplanned spaceport sites across Great Britain to create hundreds of jobs as
