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...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... of ISRU materials for Lunar Villages and Mars bases is unlikely to be prohibited by current international law. The USA’s Space Act of 2015 attempts to encourage the peaceful commercial use of materials beyond Earth and countries such as Belgium have...
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...
March 2026
From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management
.... This sovereign capability provides a strong foundation that can now be expanded and strengthened, with the proposed EU Space Act providing one pathway to do so, if US services become less accessible or more costly. For non-EU states such as the...
