February 6, 2025
Stop Tech Wars: Online Conference Sat 22 Feb

  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 […]

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February 6, 2025
New Resource: A Primer on the Militarisation of Space:

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 […]

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September 12, 2023
Online Webinar: 'Scotland Says Keep Space for Peace'

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 […]

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January 9, 2023
Why we oppose today's planned UK space launch

Tonight’s planned space launch from Newquay ‘spaceport’ is the latest step in a new era of expansion into space by the military with the UK wholeheartedly joining a space arms race which will inevitably lead to greater risk of instability and conflict. Space is rapidly becoming a key domain for military operations as modern wars […]

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