April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... to beat China back to the Moon. That would involve taking on a lot of entrenched interests at NASA and the legislative branches, in particular the Senate. It would also involve continued cooperation from countries that are providing critical...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... high costs prevent certain nations from incorporating space debris mitigation guidelines into their national legislation – as encouraged by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). A lack of comprehensive space traffic management...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... sub-orbital space tourism, orbital and extra-orbital space activity should be considered outside any such legislative framework. Meanwhile, activities in what may be considered outer space are covered by the Outer Space Treaty of 1967...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... space debris has yet to be tackled in an effective manner – there is usually room to pass the buck, as there is no binding legislation in place that would force all space players to track space debris/mitigate the problems it poses. And...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
... issue must begin on an international level. “The current state of affairs is too ambiguous,” they caution. In general space legislation has had a hard time catching up to progress in recent decades. ROOM authors have already argued for a new...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... ability to buy supplies, propellant and materials on location when we get there. Notice, while some are enabled by legislation and contracts, not one of these advances is coming from the government space program itself. Not one...
