... These include engineering and manufacturing of upstream components and platforms, development of ground segment equipment, and exploitation of space data and signals for downstream applications. The Slovenian space industry primarily comprises start...
... atmosphere-monitoring missions in the Earth observation programme. It entrusts EUMETSAT with the continued operation and exploitation of the existing Copernicus Sentinel-3 and -6 ocean-monitoring missions, the up-coming Sentinel-4 and -5 atmosphere...
... implies a population ethic, but it is not only concerned with the question of future overpopulation in space and the exploitation of space resources, but with the very initial conditions of life in space. These conditions may indeed be unbearable...
... internet revolution, the ‘free & open” data policy has been the ultimate accelerator in guaranteeing the maximum exploitation of ESA data. ESA also distributes satellite data from international partner agencies, so called Third Party Missions...
... Registration Convention of 1976 The Moon Treaty of 1979. The latter, with the objective of limiting unrestricted commercial exploitation after defining the Moon and its natural resources as “the common heritage of all mankind”, failed to be ratified...
...a century into the space age, commercial drivers are beginning to supplant military and geopolitical considerations in the exploitation of near-Earth space. How should we adapt our traditional institutions to benefit from and encourage this evolution...