The JustSpace Alliance Newsletter: The JustSpace Alliance February 2023 Newsletter justspacealliance.substack.com/p/the-justspac…

Our first newsletter for 2023 includes: the weaponization of Starlink, the troubled history of remote sensing, dark matter, planetary conjunctions, an exciting announcement, an exclusive invitation, and a special gift! justspacealliance.substack.com/p/the-justspac…

Join us for a live Q&A with our co-founder Erika Nesvold on her new book, Off-Earth, on March 16 at 8pm EDT. Hosted by Britt Duffy Adkins of Celestial Citizen. Registration is free with proof of preorder here: forms.gle/UVLLZVyd1dD9oG…

End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

Our May newsletter is out now: we discuss NASA's new naming policy and Moon to Mars architecture, the iSpace lunar lander crash, and, of course, the Starship flight test. justspacealliance.substack.com/p/the-justspac…

A while ago I had the awesome privilege to be on a law review led by (((Alex Gilbert))) about applying NEPA to space missions. We turned that into a white paper, that we now have on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2306.05594 and the full law review is here: environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/44/2/G…

Privately owned space colonies are more likely to be totalitarian nightmares than libertarian utopias | Opinion trib.al/NsU1PUy

Today, more than 4,500 Starlink satellites are in the skies, accounting for more than 50 percent of all active satellites. They have already started changing the complexion of the night sky. nyti.ms/47dZ2Ha

Virgin Galactic's preflight secrecy surrounding passenger identities got me thinking. How much openness do space-tourism companies owe the public? How much privacy should their customers expect? Story: "The Private-Jet Era of Spaceflight Has Arrived" theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Join us for "Interrogating the Commons" a panel at 2023space.iasc-commons.org on Nov 15 at 10am (UTC-7). There's still time to register! #CommonsInSpace JustSpaceAlliance Erika Nesvold @TheSpaceSav Hilding Neilson @nat_geo_theory Xiao-Shan Yap

ICYMI last week: Our last newsletter of 2023 includes a round-up of the latest space news stories, some recommended reading, and links to more calls from groups asking for scientists to speak out against genocide in Palestine: justspacealliance.substack.com/p/the-justspac…

The abstract deadline for JustSpace's Environmental Justice in Space Workshop is Jan 31! We're looking for 10-minute, prerecorded talks about your concerns for the future of the space environment, and/or what we can learn from environmental activists on Earth.