October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... at the national level, in new licensing, in satellite manufacturing, and in insurance contracts. In some cases, national legislation implements additional regulations for debris prevention. The France Space Operation Act requires all national and...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... identified a wide range of potential obstacles but also recommended ways to overcome them. One issue that current legislation does not fully address is the name ‘spaceplanes’. Both UK Department for Transport (DfT) and CAA legal...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... science, sociology, systems engineering, mathematics and the like. But at what point in law school did a contemporary legislator become exposed to the actual difficulties of finding and tracking a satellite with a telescope? Where does an astronomer...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... failure. Of course, Europe without its ‘borders’ but with its plethora of nationalities, institutions, organisations, laws and legislators has still not achieved the ultimate goal of its mission, so eloquently proposed by Schumann and the other...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... and technical knowledge to create preventive systems - so-called planetary defence mechanisms. Yet they do not have the legislative mandate nor the funding to truly cope with the cosmic hazards that are becoming much more...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... the various efforts of new commercial space companies towards this common goal. In addition, the project needs legislative and financial support from governments around the world. Large-scale space habitation will require international...
