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Pakistani rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) during a daily parade at the Pakistan-India joint check-post at Wagah border. Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press Media Production Corp.

August 5, 2026

India and Pakistan’s 79‑year rivalry has made the dangerous move into space

M Waqas Haider, Lancaster University

India and Pakistan fought a war in 2025 that was wholly dependent on space technology.

November 4, 2024

Australia is axing a $7bn military satellite project, leaving defence comms potentially vulnerable

David Tuffley, Griffith University

Reports claim the government is cancelling the JP9102 project by Lockheed Martin, meant to deliver an “uncrackable” comms network for the Australian military.

Radio observatories like the Green Bank Telescope are in radio quiet zones that protect them from interference. NRAO/AUI/NSF

March 3, 2023

Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new technologies could head off the problem

Christopher Gordon De Pree, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Christopher R. Anderson, United States Naval Academy, and Mariya Zheleva, University at Albany, State University of New York

Many telescopes use the radio spectrum to learn about the cosmos. Just as human development leads to more light pollution, increasing numbers of satellites are leading to more radio interference.

The now defunct Infrared Astronomical Telescope was one of the satellites involved in the near-collision. NASA/JPL

January 30, 2020

Two satellites just avoided a head‑on smash. How close did they come to disaster?

Gregory Cohen, Western Sydney University

Two defunct satellites passed within metres of one another, prompting renewed focus on the dangers of space debris. But with many satellites treated as military secrets, how do we track the hazards?

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