June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...As with much of the OST, this provision has been criticized for tacitly permitting a substantial range of other military activity. See Blair Stephenson Kuplic (2014), ‘The Weaponization of Outer Space: Preventing an Extraterrestrial Arms Race.” North...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...some can be flown indoors. The first UAS were military. However, the civil market is burgeoning and the technology...Israel were the largest manufacturers because of their long history of military RPAS development. However, in the near term, large RPAS ...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...and, in 1973, the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) was introduced by the US Air Force as a tool for military operations. The system used around 30 satellites at an altitude of about 20,000 km and a local receiver to locate a vehicle’s position...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... and defence systems of satellites was quickly pointed out as being strategically unsustainable. The interweaving of civil and military systems had become such that each hostility could lead to a cascade as in the era of nuclear deterrence. This...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
..., highly accurate navigation data is being made available for the first time via a civilian rather than military authority. About the interviewee Britta Schade has a Masters Degree in geosciences. She studied natural sciences in Cologne...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... Moon (Scientific Publishing, 1937) by Akkan Pseudoman (pseudonym for Edwin Northrup). Post-war push The German military’s interest in the activities of its rocketeers and in particular the potential for rockets to be used as missiles, was extremely...
