June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...lead to another revolution: “some are working on base stations armed with 3D printers intended to service drones from any manufacturer.”8 ... Joint motion for a resolution on the use of armed drones (2014/2567(RSP)), http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... such a massive disc. It was hoped that observations of HL Tau would show some of these gravitational instabilities - spirals arms, massive clumps - but surprisingly, we didn’t see any of these features. We saw a well-defined, almost symmetric disk...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...in some way, and all conflicts involving the nuclear-armed states since 1945 have been constrained in some meaningful ...approach, particularly focused on semi-formal and non-treaty-based arms control. Indeed, such activities can play an important part ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... Moon - to achieve this objective, rather than pursuing missions of questionable benefit, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Given taxpayer investment, NASA should strive to retire risk and, when possible, commercialise programmes. NASA has...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
.... Via the UN General Assembly resolution on ‘The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’ (PAROS) that has been a regular feature... space by itself does not guarantee the prevention of an arms race in outer space…[and that consequently] there is a...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The robotic portion of ARM is targeted for launch in 2021. Located in Goddard’s Robotic Operations Center, the mockup helps engineers understand the...
