October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...to shine a spotlight on congressional discourse, annual budgets, fictional representations, the narratives promoted by leading commercial space companies, space law and social media, to tease apart answers to the questions posed above. Sometimes this...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...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...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...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...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...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...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...engage in designing and building mega-structures in space and to use space resources to sustain our species. ESA lunar ...author Dr Joseph Pelton is former Dean of the International Space University, Arthur C Clarke Foundation founder, and the first...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... which are binding upon Luxembourg do not make operators internationally liable for damage caused by space objects on the Earth, in air space or in outer space; instead, it is the States that launch or procure the launch that are potentially liable...
