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...
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...
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...
