Over the last fifteen years there has been a resurgence of anti-satellite (ASAT) testing in space by multiple countries. During the Cold War between 1960 and 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted dozens of tests of both direct ascent and co-orbital ASAT weapons, some of which destroyed satellites and created hundreds of pieces of orbital debris.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk Recap: Christopher Johnson on Lunar Exploration Governance
In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Christopher Johnson, Space Law Advisor at the Secure World Foundation talked about issues of developing the next phase of governance for space activities.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspective: Did Russia Test a Weapon in Space? – Part 2
As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Project Plougshares, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is Part 2 of “Did Russia Test a Weapon in Space? What the question and the answer tell us about the security of outer space”, originally published 30 July 2020 in Ploughshares Spotlight, July 2020.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspective: Did Russia Test a Weapon in Space? – Part 1
As part of the partnership between SpaceWatch.Global and Project Plougshares, we have been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is Part 1 of “Did Russia Test a Weapon in Space? What the question and the answer tell us about the security of outer space”, originally published 30 July 2020 in Ploughshares Spotlight, July 2020.
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café Special with Serbian Case for Space On 23 July 2020
Join SpaceWatch.Global and Serbian Case for Space for a conversation on"Cyber security and how to protect outer space".
Read More »Register Today For Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes With Christopher Johnson” On 4 August 2020
Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Christopher Johnson, Space Law Advisor at the Secure World Foundation.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Public Health Is On Our Minds. Here’s How It Applies To Outer Space.
By Jessica West The number of threats to the security of outer space is growing. Reports on global counter-space capabilities released at the end of March by the Secure World Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicate that the range of capabilities that can interfere with and …
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Feature: Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities Report – An Excerpt
SpaceWatch.Global is proud to republish this excerpt from the 2020 edition of Secure World Foundation's Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment, edited by Dr. Brian Weeden and Ms. Victoria Samson.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Dr. Brian Weeden” On 21 April 2020
This Space Café WebTalk will feature Dr. Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.
Read More »US Think Tanks Release Annual Counterspace And Space Threats Studies
Two leading US think tanks – the Secure World Foundation (SWF) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – simultaneously released their respective annual studies on global counterspace capabilities and space threats on Monday, 30 March 2020.
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