Published by The BBC, 8 September 2023 An asteroid that Nasa crashed a special spacecraft into to knock it off course, is now behaving in a weird way. The spacecraft named Dart successfully smashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in September last year - it was part of an experiment to
U.S. Air Force crews set up satellite communications equipment at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Credit: U.S. Air Force By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 7 September 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force should overhaul its current approach to procuring commercial satellite communications services, the RAND Corp. recommends in a
By Gordon Corera, Published by the BBC, 6 September 2023 Ukraine cyber-operators are being deployed on the front lines of the war, duelling close-up with their Russian counterparts in a new kind of high-tech battle. "We have people who are directly involved in combat," says Illia Vitiuk, the head of
Concept art from defense company Lockheed Martin depicts a potential application of directed-energy weapons against unmanned systems. (Photo provided/Lockheed Martin) By Colin Demarest, Published by DefenseNews, 28 August 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. commander in the Indo-Pacific is interested in more widely experimenting with and deploying directed-energy weapons designed to
By Wen Zhou, Published by ICRC, 15 August 2023 Despite the long-term desire of the international community to explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, space systems have been employed for military purposes since the dawn of the space era. As the role of these systems in military operations
The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space is involved in a legal action against the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to pressure them to create rules/guidelines for the launching of satellites in space. Lower Earth orbit (LEO) is becoming dangerously crowded and NASA scientists are concerned about growing
Latest Developments on War in Space Held on-line 15 July 2023 Speakers: Panel discussion moderator and meeting host Bruce Gagnon serves as Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (GN). He lives in Brunswick, Maine. Bruce helped create the GN in 1992. His book, called
L3Harris received a $125 million contract to upgradespace force counter-communications By Christopher McFadden, Published by Interesting Education, 20 June 2023 According to Space Force officials, L3Harris' planned upgrade of the former's Counter Communications System, Meadowlands, is overdue. A planned portable electronic jamming device to combat Chinese and Russian space-based tech
