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...
March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
..., the US Federal Communications Commission’s revised deorbit rules, the European Space Agency’s Zero Debris efforts, and the proposed European Union Space Act, a formal EU regulation introduced in June 2025 to harmonise safety, resilience and...
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...
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...
