June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...; development of the technology required for planetary defence; and the inception of an interdisciplinary approach to global space governance Reorganising space agencies One massive solar storm in the form of a giant coronal mass ejection could knock...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... IX further provides that the study and exploration of space and celestial bodies must be conducted in such a ... deal with any global health concern occurring in space or originating from space. But as the current coronavirus demonstrates, global...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
...how they can translate their terrestrial human rights measures to the unique environment of outer space The relevance of human rights in space can be highlighted through the following hypothetical examples which we may expect to encounter in the near...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... the author Mert Evirgen is a First Class Law Graduate and Space Law PhD researcher working alongside Northumbria University and Northern Space & Security to create the ‘Space Law Games’. His research focuses particularly on matters of liability and...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
...two to four years but a 0.7 kg piece of it crashed through Alejandro Otero’s roof. The Liability Convention states that a space object includes component parts and does not have to be the entirety of an object (Art I LC). As the individual components...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
...Only through such leadership, with all nations working together, will we preserve the space environment for future generations.” Mert Evirgen, of Northern Space Security, also advocates the need for legally binding guidelines in his article Collision...
