January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...enabled precision warfare technologies, and the strategies which exploit or counter such technologies, depend in large part on early warning, communications and guidance systems located in Earth orbit. Yet China and Russia, as the prime proliferators...
July 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
... US uses additional sensors for target detection and tracking, including the Space Tracking and Surveillance System; early warning radars in California, Alaska, the United Kingdom and Greenland; and very capable sea-based X-Band radar...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of missile early warning, missile defence, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence mission areas. Of course, it is always easy to ask...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
...enable small satellite launch from Cornwall in the early 2020s. This investment remains subject to business case...in space between the Earth and the Sun, this would give early warnings to allow industry and space operators to take corrective action to ...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... for vigilance Sectors that rely on space technology now include climate and natural disaster monitoring, early warning systems, global broadcasting, meteorology, navigation, reconnaissance, remote sensing, surveillance and the advancement of science...
December 2014
Finding NEO
Looking at the surface of our Earth, we can see scars of ancient impacts from asteroids in places like Barringer crater in Arizona or Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan. Within the past 100 years, the Earth has seen a meteorite explode in the air over ...
