May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... that safety responsibility is not subordinated to operations This article analyses this response in the context of internal safety regulation. The Baseline for analysis is the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) report. The GAO writes: ‘The...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... role in space traffic management, space situational awareness, the prevention of harmful contamination by space objects and regulation of space debris. But the type and depth of information provided under the Registration Convention can vary ...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
We use the term satellites every day, but what does this word really mean? The first use of the term satellites goes back to the discovery of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter. He needed a name to describe these small ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...been augmented with various other international treaties [12] and would seem to offer a ready-made solution to the regulation of space tourism. There are, however, difficulties with simply transposing this to space activity. The nature of sovereignty...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
...designed to fit within and be a part of the surrounding desert landscape. Private firms could see non-regulation of space activities (or certain parts of a space activity) as beneficial as it may lower administrative, technical, and financial burdens...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... facets of space exploration and utilisation. This is largely due to the approach taken by the US government to support and regulate private investment in space under the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, wherein launch standards are based...
