Analysis, briefings and expert commentary from across the Counterspace community, keeping you in the loop between editions.
The conversation covers key issues in space security today. Why is it challenging to define dual use, and how does this impact governance? What problems…
This piece maps the growing ambiguity at the heart of space security. It traces how dual‑use technologies and routine satellite manoeuvres complicate efforts to judge whether others are acting responsibly or rehearsing interference. It then explores how national experiments such as the United Kingdom’s RPO regulatory sandbox aim to tighten licensing and supervision of commercial operators, while leaving the deeper interstate problem of reading intent largely unresolved.
Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Associate Professor of Astropolitics and Co-Director of the Space Research Centre at Durham University, is a leading expert on spacepower whose work…
Space is commanding more attention than ever, but the sobriety and historical sensibility that the subject demands have not kept pace. We had the opportunity…
Space has long mattered to defence, but its significance now extends far beyond the military use of satellites alone. Modern societies depend on space-enabled systems…
Counterspace launches as a Brussels-based strategic platform for the space security community, bringing together defence, government, industry, investors, academia, startups, and the wider dual-use ecosystem. The inaugural edition takes place 5–6 May 2027.
