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October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... in such a way that gives countries affirmative duties to employ space technology to mitigate human suffering. The situation is likely to be exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change as it leads to the displacement of people and communities... & regulation. He has been a contributor to several aviation and space law focused journals, is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, is the Chair of the Legal Technical Committee with the ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... effectively come to grips with some of humanity’s most pressing existential threats, namely nuclear weapons and climate change. As a result, on 26 January 2017 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - which informs... expand from traditional applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... can lead to service degradation or, more rarely, to complete satellite failure. Awareness of the effects of space weather on terrestrial infrastructure – known as geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) - is lower, because examples are few and ...skills, systems and resources that impact the community. The infrequent nature of severe space weather events that impact terrestrial infrastructures complicates the fostering of a community’s resilience strategy ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... System (AIS) and Internet of Things (IoT) satellites. These include Commsat, Linksure, ADA Space, Space OK, Laserfleet, Changguang Satellite Co. Ltd., Zhuhai Orbita, ZeroG Lab and Head Aerospace. International market...orbit. Other mission areas and technology areas of interest include Space Domain Awareness, GPS and weather satellites, and data exploitation. Space Domain Awareness: rapidly detect, warn, characterise, attribute and predict...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... groups many thousands of miles away without long-range satellite communications; space-based surveillance to detect approaching threats; weather satellite forecasting of sea states and cloud cover over potential targets; ... their Hohmann transfer orbits, so a hidden ASAT would not require much additional fuel to attack many different space targets. And it is unlikely that any nation would be willing to manoeuvre their ‘inspector satellites’ to ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...model building. It is therefore no great surprise that Lego has embarked on its own small space programme. Entering space Space is increasingly an integral part of our culture… It is therefore no great surprise that ... writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... of ‘the mankind provisions’ has thus reached an impasse and, according to former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, Prof Joanne Gabrynowitz, it is “now primarily a political problem and... therefore, only subject to ...a political solution. Without supportive political action to develop the law of space, space lawyers are reduced to the 20th century version of arguing the number of angels that can sit ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...tether close to Earth including the atmosphere is especially demanding. It passes through significant wind pressure, weather phenomena such as lightning, condensation, icing, etc., and atomic oxygen (AO) that is highly detrimental..., vol. 152, p. 123–126, 2018. 22 J. Pearson and E. Levin, “Lunar Space Elevator Design in Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development,” Star Inc., 2005. 23 M. Lades, “Mars Lift Update,” in IAC18, Proceedings,...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...implications for international relations Likewise, India’s space programme, as inspired by Vikram Sarabhai, was devoted to economic and social purposes such as Earth observation, weather warning and communications. Over time, ...an old Beidou navigation satellite. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible A more recent development is trailing ...
