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June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...needs to put its own house in order before spending time, effort and considerable resources on space exploration. Space activity now permeates all manner of commercial, scientific and military endeavours in a way that did...state activity and commercial activity will need to be reconciled with the need to respect the fragile space environment if space activity is to be sustainable for future generations. Thanks are due to Dr. Michael Macaulay of ...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
...months and years. However, there remain some differences related to the anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty and UNISPACE+50 compared to previous UNISPACE conferences. If new regulatory mechanisms, agreements or ... focuses on contemporary trends and dynamics in the global space sector. He is chairman of an NGO Slovak Space Policy Association, a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council representing Slovakia and regularly participates at ...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...new and more cost-effective robotics missions, advanced navigation and precision manoeuvring in space, improved space situational systems, lower cost satellite manufacturing techniques and improved power systems including ... bodies, and States shall facilitate and encourage international co-operation in such investigation.’ Article II ‘Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of ...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
...policy issues, it is useful to briefly examine the focus of business plans based on space resources utilisation (space mining). Commercial business plans in this area focus on characterising, accessing, extracting, and ... prohibited. An interpretation of this type would have obvious negative impact on business plans focused on space resources utilisation, and by extension the security of investments in those plans. However, opinion is consolidating...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...defence can be found by defining the defence of planet Earth - because, in the face of a global space threat, all of our ‘intra-planetary geopolitical squabbles’ will simply disappear. We are locked into a truly terrifying... phase of space pollution as the space debris problem changes from being passive to aggressive In seeking ways to protect Earth from military...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...used as a weapon simply by being directed at another spacecraft. Neither do weapons need to be based in space to present a threat to orbiting operational satellites. Ground-based weapons can also be used, as the 2007 Chinese... some capacity in this field. The deployment of such weapons requires a parallel space surveillance capability to be able to monitor space objects and estimate the position of the target satellite with a sufficient degree of...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... ideas, the Cold War battle for rocket technology peaked in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik. Despite American confidence in its knowledge production and superior liberal capitalist ideas, the Soviet Union...and well. Most space activity in contemporary society is based around the design, launch, maintenance and running of satellites in Earth orbit. Indeed, the importance of satellites has increased extensively since Sputnik made its name ...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... capacities increased, the USSR and the USA became capable of sending the first satellites such as Sputnik into space in 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before ... Joly-Battaglini is the cofounder and CEO of Mymicrogravity, prior to which he worked for Airbus Defence and Space in France and Germany where he started in a business development team linked to microgravity activities. He studied physics...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... and inviting them to contribute their artwork to a suit that is going to be worn by an astronaut in space! Gordon Andrews (ISS Programme Comms), Nicole Stott (Artist/ Astronaut), Ian Cion (MD Anderson Cancer Center Arts... our trip to Moscow, I recently watched a video on YouTube of the handshake that took place in space as part of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz mission. This incredible international collaboration and celebration of connectivity took place...
