To coincide with the opening of a three-month window for the first space launch from UK soil, a new detailed report from Space Watch UK ‘Waste of Space: The Environmental Cost of Human Activities in Space’ examines the environmental harm from growing activity in space. While for decades the small numbers of space launches meant […]

  With drones rapidly proliferating around the globe, military planners pushing ahead with incorporating AI into military systems, and a number of states now seeing space as a war-fighting domain Space Watch UK and Drone Wars are holding  an online conference to inform and build our campaigning to challenge these developments. The day will include […]

Space Watch UK has produced a simple 4-page A4 resource explaining the militarisation of space.  Aimed as a free giveaway for local groups, the primer gives an overview of what is happening, outlines the main UK military space programmes, has a detailed UK map of current military space sites, and sets out why we oppose […]

Over the past decade, both the US and UK governments have designated space as a key focus as military operations increasingly rely on space-based assets for command and control, surveillance, targeting, missile warning and secure communications with forces deployed overseas. In 2019 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) declared that space should be seen as “a […]