January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... Starlink satellites by the end of 2020, it will single-handedly increase the number of operational satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 50 percent. SpaceX has received regulatory authorisation for 12,000 Starlink satellites, and recently sought...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...in Space Law & Policy at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where she is working on the sustainable governance of low Earth orbit. She is also Programme Director and Board Member at the Centre for a Spacefaring Civilization, where she...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
Compared to routine operations in low Earth orbit, the allure of interplanetary exploration is almost ... of law-makers, what applies on land does not yet do so in Earth orbit and beyond. By far the largest number of disputes around the world are ...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...Apollo 8 were the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. ... we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... an increase of 4.79 percent compared to 2017. The fact is that space is already crowded - and it’s getting worse. With multiple low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation launches planned in the coming months and years, the number of satellites...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
.... Upcoming crewed missions will be dramatically different from low-Earth orbital missions in both mission demands and the kind of...Architecture. Olga conducts research and design studies of orbital and surface habitats and settlements in the field ...
