March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty’. States typically respond to this obligation through national regulations, laws and licensing regimes. The space resources provisions in the US Act did not establish any elements...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
... these resources is about to become feasible). But one thing remains clear: any unilateral legislation for the regulation of the exploitation of outer space resources lacks the respective jurisdiction of a state. It is therefore null and void. About...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... of funding, I believe the reason that commercial spaceflight has been so successful in the US is primarily because of the regulations and the regulators. In this regard, the US has set, if not the benchmark, then at least a very good example of how...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... that slavery must be prohibited. And many countries have in place stringent domestic anti-slavery laws and regulations addressing slavery crimes in-country as well as slavery-tainted imported goods. Yet slavery persists on a large scale. Recent...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... the device and the extra weight present at launch. Then there is passivation. Satellites are required by international regulations to permanently deplete or in some way make safe all forms of stored energy — both propulsive and electrical — in order...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... commercial satellites (and to that end commercial CubeSats) were recently removed from the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list in the US, any component with military origins (some of which seem completely benign) can still...
