June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... such as Mars, where COSPAR guidelines are extremely onerous in terms of the level of protection required.15 Such legislation would, however lay an important foundation for projects in the future that sought to permanently alter the characteristics...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... and the RPAS involved therein follow the standard aviation process. Cat’s cradle This engineering and legislative ‘cat’s cradle’ will be properly untangled once industry delivers the technical standards and products for specific...
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...
