... a new multilateral negotiation based on its text. Finally, I believe that the Russian-initiated resolution on ‘No First Placement of Space Weapons’ adopted at the UN General Assembly for the first time in 2014 and again in 2015, represents another...
...its activities and lacks a strong enforcement power. The availability of more diversified weapons increases the vulnerability of space-based systems To better appreciate the situation, let’s look at some numbers: Twelve states have demonstrated their...
...this coalesce with those laws that would apply to more traditional forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of missile early warning, missile defence, battlespace awareness, and technical...
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
...started at a meeting of the Santa Monica chapter of the Space Tourism Society. I was there giving an update on a ...when the job of many of those employed by governments to go into space is to look around, take pictures and rush home themselves. Dennis ...
...But, after all it gives us in terms of improving the lives of so many people on Earth, is that to be the defining feature of space - as a platform for military conduct? If so, then perhaps the doomsayers may be correct and we had better learn to live...