Collated by Bruce Gagnon, 18 October 2023 October 5 Protest at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland. Opposing the construction of a rocket launch facility in a pristine environment that would inevitably turn military like all the rest have around the globe. Lockheed Martin is turning up in control of
By Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder Published by Defense One, 17 October 2023 Even the best air defense systems can be overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Because of its unique national security challenges, Israel has a long history of developing highly effective, state-of-the-art defense technologies
By Donovan Lynch, Published by News Center Maine, 25 September 2023 While many in Steuben invite BluShift Aerospace's plans for a rocket hub, others say it will harm fisheries and pollute the Gulf of Maine. STEUBEN, Maine — Blushift Aerospace's effort to build a rocket launching point in Downeast Maine
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
