10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... £25 billion over the next 20 years. The funding comes as the UK government released the timeline for new legislation which will promote and regulate commercial spaceflight. To help facilitate the government’s ambitions for the UK to hold...
16 January 2018
MP highlights ROOM article during Parliamentary debate
... operators in the UK. Its second reading in the House of Commons on 15 January 2018 paves the way for secondary legislation over the coming months which will contain the real detail for spaceport operators and launch...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... the final version of the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday. Now that the last legislative hurdle has been passed, all that remains is for President Trump to sign the bill into law...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
.... “Space should not be a partisan issue, and I am proud of the across-the-aisle teamwork which made this legislation possible.”
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
....” Situated about 800 kilometres north of Perth on a remote site in outback Western Australia, ASKAP has been constructed in a legislated radio quiet zone, making it one of the most radio quiet locations on Earth. In addition to being a world-leading...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
...will attract both local and international in-orbit servicing space industry partners to apply for licences under UK legislation and regulation. “The removal of hazardous space debris is not only environmentally important but is also a huge commercial...
