July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
...may withdraw the authorisation. In such cases, the Minister may order measures to avoid any security or environmental risks, including deorbiting the space object. The sanctions for violation of the law range from a fine to imprisonment of up to five...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... misperceptions. This all depends on senior leaders’ conceptions and/or fears of the threats posed by space systems to their countries’ national security or even their own political futures and, of course, the perception of national populations. What...
28 May 2016
Editor-in-chief speaks at international space lawyers’ conference
... technologies and activities, military policies, and the challenges and risks they represent in terms of space security. Presentations by renowned academics and subject-matter experts are addressing the adequacy and inadequacy of current rules...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... the publication of the work by Liou and Johnson there has been considerable interest shown in remediation of the space environment. In particular, significant effort has been invested across the globe in the development of methods to remove objects...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
...in the case of major satellite failure or the impossibility of controlling the satellite from the ground. The European Space Agency’s Envisat, launched on April 2002 and declared inoperative in 2012 due to an unidentified failure, will take up to 150...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... of Russia, Ministry of Defence of Russia, Roscosmos and others, have functional automated control systems that monitor dangerous space objects - and their goal is to discover, analyse and predict the consequences of DCS-related emergencies. The main...
