This Space Café Canada will feature astronomer Aaron Boley and legal expert Michael Byers, Co-Directors of the Outer Space Institute at the University of British Columbia, in conversation with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares and a friend of SpaceWatch.Global.

Collision course: anti-satellite weapon testing and the crisis of space debris

The testing of kinetic ASAT weapons in space isn’t new, but the growing density of satellites and even humans in orbit drastically changes the risk of catastrophic collisions from space debris, making a bad idea even worse.