February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...its activities and lacks a strong enforcement power. The availability of more diversified weapons increases the vulnerability of space-based systems To better appreciate the situation, let’s look at some numbers: Twelve states have demonstrated their...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...this coalesce with those laws that would apply to more traditional forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of missile early warning, missile defence, battlespace awareness, and technical...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... an even larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space. I see this as a consequence of traditional space becoming less influential in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being lessened...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...started at a meeting of the Santa Monica chapter of the Space Tourism Society. I was there giving an update on a ...when the job of many of those employed by governments to go into space is to look around, take pictures and rush home themselves. Dennis ...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...But, after all it gives us in terms of improving the lives of so many people on Earth, is that to be the defining feature of space - as a platform for military conduct? If so, then perhaps the doomsayers may be correct and we had better learn to live...
