https://spacewatch.global/tag/victoria-samson/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Sun, 24 May 2026 09:26:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/victoria-samson/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/05/spacewatchgl-opinion-boiling-frogs-in-orbit-what-the-csis-swf-2026-threat-briefing-tells-us-about-where-space-security-is-heading/ Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=74133 Torsten Kriening reviews the joint CSIS-Secure World Foundation briefing on the 2026 space threats landscape, where Kari Bingen, Victoria Samson, Kathleen Brett and Clayton Swope walked through dynamic space operations, the limits of two-line elements, and Golden Dome's trillion-dollar threshold question. The most operationally significant development of the past week, however, came from Greg Gillinger's open-source analysis of Russian Cosmos satellites manoeuvring into co-planar orbits with ICEYE-X36. A European problem.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/08/spacewatchgl-summer-listening-series-week-four-space-debris-and-regulations/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:00:42 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50722 Greetings, SpaceWatchers, and welcome to Summer Listening Week Four! Summer is upon us, and as our gaze shifts towards the stars during those warm, clear nights, SpaceWatch.Global brings you its third collection of the Summer Listening Series. Based on the vote by our newsroom, we have mapped out an interstellar journey across five categories. After the Moon, Climate - Space - Earth and Trendsetters, this week is the turn of  “Space Debris and Regulations.”]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/space-cafe-radio-secure-world-foundation-ep-01-tim-maclay/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:00:42 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50268 In this Space Café Radio -  SpaceWatch.Global's Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with Tim Maclay, the chief strategy officer and US general manager at ClearSpace, an in-orbiting service and space debris company founded in 2018. Today's episode is in partnership with the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on the long-term sustainability of outer space and earth orbits, as well as space security and stability considerations.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/space-cafe-radio-at-the-un-oewg-with-dr-jessica-west-and-victoria-samson/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:00:47 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46561 In this Space Café Radio - SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with  Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, and Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director at Secure World Foundation. In this episode, Torsten talked with Jessica and Victoria about the third session of the Open-ended working group on reducing space threats through norms, rules, and principles of responsible behaviors, held in early February 2023 in Geneva.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/11/space-cafe-radio-a-special-on-the-recent-russian-anti-satellite-test/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37592 In this Space Café Radio - Special on the recent Russian Anti-Satellite Test – SpaceWatch.Global contributing editor Dr. Emma Gatti spoke with her guests about "Is Space an asset, or a weapon?" In this special episode of Space Cafè Radio, we explore the political and strategic implications of the 15th of November 2021 Russian ASAT attack.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/01/spacewatchgl-opinion-space-sustainability-trends-2020-2021-and-beyond/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 09:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=29717 https://spacewatch.global/2020/08/secure-world-foundation-releases-new-fact-sheets-on-anti-satellite-testing/ Tue, 25 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=25458&preview=true&preview_id=25458 https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/spacewatch-global-feature-an-executive-summary-of-the-report-on-global-counterspace-capabilities/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:00:22 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21211 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.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/10/spacewatchgl-oped-space-force-vs-space-command-a-primer/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:00:06 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16493 This is “Space Force vs Space Command: A Primer”, originally published Oct 5, 2019 in the ORF Space Alert, Vol VII, Issue 4.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/05/high-level-space-security-officials-and-experts-will-gather-for-5th-pssi-space-security-conference-in-prague/ Wed, 29 May 2019 05:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14360 The Prague Security Studies Institute's (PSSI) 5th invitation-only Space Security Conference will be held in Prague on 9-11 June 2019.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/indian-space-wars-indias-drdo-head-outlines-counterspace-capability-ambitions/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13466 Following its 27 March 2019 direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) missile test that destroyed a target satellite in low-Earth orbit (LEO), the head of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – G. Satheesh Reddy – has outlined to Indian media his organisation's counterspace technology ambitions for the coming years.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/swgl-oped-insight-global-proliferation-counterspace-capabilities-space-sustainability/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 07:00:59 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8323 SpaceWatch.Global is a proud partner of the Secure World Foundation, and a greateful recipient of SWF support. The SWF published a new report on 11 April 2018 titled Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment that provides an exhaustive, comprehensive, incisive, and useful open source guide to global counterspace capabilities and developments, as well as analysis of their implications. Here, the authors of that report, Victoria Samson and Brian Weeden, summarise the study and provide a broader geopolitical context about its importance.]]>