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Articles tagged: Planetary protection policy

  • Christopher Newman, COSPAR, Planetary protection policy, space ethics June 2015 The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond

    ...A consensus has emerged via the Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) and the Planetary Protection policy 12 regarding the different levels of protection to be afforded to planets themselves and to any samples returned to Earth. Broadly speaking, the...

    • Christopher Newman
    • COSPAR
    • Planetary protection policy
    • space ethics
    Authors: Christopher J. Newman    
  • brines, Life on Mars, Mars Weather Research and Forecasting (MarsWRF) general circulation model (GCM), Planetary Protection policies, Special Regions 11 May 2020 Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study

    ...argue the authors and as such it means these brines cannot be classified as ‘Special Regions’ according to Planetary Protection policies, as they cannot sustain terrestrial life. Special Regions on Mars are defined as environments able to host liquid...

    • brines
    • Life on Mars
    • Mars Weather Research and Forecasting (MarsWRF) general circulation model (GCM)
    • Planetary Protection policies
    • Special Regions
  • legal personhood, Return to the Moon, rights of nature concept, space law April 2021 Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments

    ...have become used to seeing the Moon as a dead rock, while the Committee on Space Research’s Planetary Protection Policy has no requirement to protect the Moon as there is no life there. But with proposed missions planned to establish a more permanent...

    • legal personhood
    • Return to the Moon
    • rights of nature concept
    • space law
    Authors: Alice Gorman     Thomas Gooch    
  • COSPAR, planetary protection, space contamination, space debris, UN COPUOS June 2019 The challenge of planetary protection

    ... to the Moon and to most of the asteroids. Nor do any planetary protection constraints apply to missions in Earth orbit. Similarly, the COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy does not seek to protect solar system bodies for their own sake, does not...

    • COSPAR
    • planetary protection
    • space contamination
    • space debris
    • UN COPUOS
    Authors: Athena Coustenis     Gerhard Kminek     Niklas Hedman    
  • active debris removal, ADR, space domain awareness, Space situational awareness, space sustainability, space traffic management April 2025 Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness

    ... framework to guide sustainable efforts in space is laborious. Guidelines such as the Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) Planetary Protection Policy are non-binding, because nations and private entities have different priorities, making consensus...

    • active debris removal
    • ADR
    • space domain awareness
    • Space situational awareness
    • space sustainability
    • space traffic management
    Authors: Marcel Debczynski     Marco Rocchetto     Viktoria Urban    
  • Global health management, illness in space, space law and health governance July 2020 Pandemic in space – are we ready?

    ...on how to respond to a viral contagion that may affect a wider population. The closest may be the Planetary Protection Policy of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), although this instrument is restricted to interplanetary biological and organic...

    • Global health management
    • illness in space
    • space law and health governance
    Authors: David Kuan-Wei Chen    
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