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August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...By the end of this century, we will probably only visit a handful with larger spacecraft like NEAR Shoemaker, or Japan’s Hayabusa. But nanosats could be sent in large numbers to examine hundreds of asteroids close up within a generation,... MarCO (Mars Cube One) spacecraft as the first interplanetary cubesats, intended as pathfinders for the space science community. Two MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to launch on the same rocket as InSight in May ...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... application programmes that serve governmental policies. It has transferred the responsibility of space policy-making from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEXT), whose policy focus is on R&D, to the Cabinet ...for its customers. About the author Kazuto Suzuki is a member of Space Security Task Force and Sub-committee on Space Industry of National Space Policy Committee of Japan. He has served as a member of the Panel of Experts ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... considering the administration of justice in outer space; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give unlimited authority to ... have visited the ISS. For further details see Sundhal, M. (2009). The duty to rescue space tourists and return private spacecraft. Journal of Space Law, 35, pp.163-200 at p. 164, fn 2. 6 Dinerman, (n1) 7 The OST was ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... investing some of their fortunes in private space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow, founder of...on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the future. SpaceShipOne nestled safely beneath her mothership, the White ...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... exhibited at the hospital, to exhibiting our art through partnerships with the Museum of Health and Medical Science and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, to animation made in collaboration with our patients and families ...to think about their own journey in a new way. I decided that a space suit would be a profound symbol of how we can work together to integrate the best of science and art to create a form of protection. With this in mind, I knew...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... author Milan Mijovic is a founder and the President of the Serbian Office for Space Sciences, Research and Development (SERBSPACE). He is a Space law Ph.D. student and an Air and Space Law Researcher at Union University Law School in Belgrade, Serbia. After several...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
...-known and new fibre artists have stretched their creative muscles to draw the viewer in to the world of science, romance, history and fantasy. You can see all of the ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ quilts here: https... to the Moon and when we make those first steps on Mars we will be wearing space suits. As we’ve seen, space suits designed for use in space have inspired space suit art, but they have also inspired fashion designers to think differently...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...is a prudent, efficient and strong global governance - including a robust space governance system. By global space governance we mean a collection of space-related international binding agreements and non-binding guidelines (and codes of conduct...broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... must find new outlets for constructive and practical decisionmaking and conflict resolution Existing space legal structures, including liability, must be reconsidered to catch up with the ...space policy and regulatory issues. About the author Dr Scott Madry is the Executive Director of the Global Space Institute, research associate professor of archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and is the President of Informatics...
