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April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast region rode the economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force provided Cape ...ago. And state-wide, Florida’s aerospace industry is being recognised by companies as the kind of business and living environment that the next generation aerospace development and manufacturing companies need to thrive in. The...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
...his short story Reason, described a space station that harvests energy in space and wirelessly transmits it to Earth. Peter Glaser picked this up again at the height of the race to space, in the journal Science, titled ‘Power from the ...more akin to warehouse or logistics ‘pick and pack’ With such a large asset in space there are new possible business opportunities that could be capitalised upon. The first one would be instrumenting the OTVs - what...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... environment, and remote sensing law & 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 American Institute of Aeronautics...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... Vice President of Blue Origin, which aims to become a major player in the future space launch business. In this article - based on his keynote lecture at the Seradata Space Conference in London in June - he provides a personal perspective on the company, where ... that will help us to develop and certify the vehicle and develop a launch site on a west coast Air Force base. The maiden launch of New Glenn is targeted for 2021. The key to achieving ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) marked the formal weaponization of military space. Although the shuttle never flew from the west coast, there were military payloads or dedicated military shuttle missions, estimated at...) unmistakeably reflected the US government and media portrayal of early space as ‘peaceful purposes’. The Space Shuttle had its own dedicated west coast military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base. Full spectrum There has...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...of the crew. References 1 Dinerman, T., 2016 Could be the year Space Tourism takes off Observer Business and Tech 22 September 2015. http://observer.com/2015/09/2016-could-be-the-year... and Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space Tourism - Parallel Synergies between Air and Space Law? German Journal of Air and Space Law p.184-202 11 Abeyratne, (n 10) at p....
22 June 2021
Space Tourism Business: The Foundations
..., he quite reasonably points out that “as an element in the sustained economic recovery”, the space tourism business has “great prospects for generating good jobs and revenues”. Apart from that, commercial aviation began...monochrome photos, along with charts and graphs. No-one really knows when, or whether, space tourism will become a viable business. Like space power satellites, in–orbit manufacturing and a return of explorers to the Moon, it has...
October 2020
Open Source Space
...satellites and open source thinking is creating a springboard for the development of a community-based approach For space businesses to be sustainable, the enabling technology needs to be performant and large enough to support payloads that... and robustness - rather than CubeSats, will be required to enable many of the sustainable space and space-enabled businesses of the future. This was the catalyst for the initiation of the Open Source Satellite...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...assess damage. Market evolution While coverage for communications satellites is still the mainstay of the space insurance business, the past five decades has seen a degree of diversification. Arguably most notable are ... to focus on insurable risks in applications that underwriters believe will generate premium income – because space insurance is first and foremost a business. But if the past year or so has taught us anything, it is that we cannot...
