October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... ready to consolidate its strengths, confront its weaknesses and articulate a cohesive vision for the future of space. Between the EU Space Act and ESA’s Strategy 2040, Europe is aligning its regulatory, industrial and strategic levers to remain...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... lines were blurred regarding this issue but in 2015 the world welcomed a new piece of legislation, the US Space Act of 2015. Has this finally addressed the question regarding ownership rights on resources? Time for change Bearing...
25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
...Helping in this search is NASA and the two have signed a Space Act Agreement to cooperate on the mission known as “Project Blue.” Its...Project Blue to take direct images of exoplanets from space has been developed through NASA-funded programs. Having ...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... in his Foreword, describing the sector as entering a “season of reckoning.” With the European Space Act newly tabled and the fifth European Space Forum in Brussels framing debates, Simpson warns of the dangers of “sleepwalking into orbital anarchy...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... 5063. This bill was known as the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities in Deep Space Act, 113th Congress, 2nd Session (ASTEROIDs Act). 4 This is the short title of the Act passed in to law on November 25th, 2015, which began...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... like the VOC’s board of directors dictated colonial and Imperial policy. The Space Act specifically encourage space mining, the partial acquisition of territory in space, and states that an American citizen is entitled to any resource they are able...
