22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... Galactic” or “the Company”), a vertically integrated aerospace company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... the launch. Consequently, some countries - including the UK - introduced such a cap alongside its amendment of the UK Outer Space Act in 2015, which imposed a €60 million limit on the amount that spaceflight companies are required to indemnify the...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
...the UKspace In-orbit services and manufacturing (IOSM) working group. Space junk is a big problem. Since the first satellite was...government. Last week, the UK Space Agency issued space licences under the UK Outer Space Act for both the ELSA-d servicer...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
.... The dramatic story of Hayabusa was made into several films in Japan. From satellites to deep space In 2008, Japan enacted the Fundamental Space Act, and has formulated plans based on it since 2009. In the 2013 plan, six fundamental...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... be addressed in terms of national legislation. New legislation in the US - known as the ‘Space Act of 2015’ - is focused on the space mining of asteroids rather than diverting dangerous space rocks from hitting Earth. With the US enacting this type...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... and obtainable possible courses of action, through such means as: Looking to ‘new model’ national space laws (such as the French Operations Space Act and its mandated observance of the 25 year de-orbit rule) Examining codes of conduct and new...
