The 'Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space' (also known as the 'Global Network' or the 'GN') is an international network of organisations and individuals who are concerned about the militarisation and exploitation of space. When the US Space Force was established in 2019 President Trump said that it marked “a big moment”
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Every October the GN calls for global actions to support "Keep Space for Peace Week"
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POsted By Bruce Gagnon, Posted on Organizing Notes, 24 February 2024 Your visit to ROK (South Korea) is also encouraging to us in Japan. I'm following and will spread about Pusan or others.Yesterday, I went and listened to the talk regarding the rapidly ongoing military buildup not only in Okinawa
An artist's impression of the TIMED spacecraft scanning Earth in orbit. (Image credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribbenu003c/strongu003e) By Ben Turner, Published by Live Science, 28 February 2024 NASA's TIMED satellite narrowly avoided hitting a defunct Russian satellite in the early hours of the morning. An active NASA spacecraft has survived a
By Peter Howson, Published by Jacobin, 23 February 2024 Texas start-up Intuitive Machines has achieved the first moon landing by a private firm. It’s dumping rich people’s detritus on the lunar surface — a grim sign of how the superrich plan to plant their flag beyond our own planet. Amid
By Bruce Gagnon, Posted in Organizing Notes, 23 February 2024 Yesterday we took a train and then a car to arrive in the afternoon to Gunsan. Last night I spoke to a group of about 40 people held at a peace center that was founded to fight against US base
By Bruce Gagnon, Posted in Organizing Notes, 22 February, 2024 Today we drove about an hour from our hotel to the other side of Busan to see a beautiful spot where the ROK government is planning to build a runway on top of the bay. They plan to take half
SpaceX's Starship/Super Heavy vehicle to perform the first 2024 orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX By Eric Berger, Published by arsTechnica, 22 February 2024 As SpaceX nears its first Starship launch of 2024—possibly as soon as within three weeks—from its Starbase facility
Bruce with two translators Joyak-gol and Sung-Hee. Soon-jeong at the podium moderated By Bruce Gagnon, Posted on Organizing Notes, 21 February 2024 After a very long 15 hour flight from Boston to Seoul I was escorted by long-time Global Network member Choi Sung-Hee to the domestic airport via train and
Illustration of ERS-2 in space. The precise timing and location of its re-entry were difficult to predict. Photograph: ESA/PA By Hannah Devlin, Published by The Guardian, 21 February 2024 ERS-2 breaks up into pieces and plummets into the ocean after reentering Earth’s atmosphere An uncontrolled satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
