March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... impact and likelihood. Amid more commonly known natural hazards, space weather is now recognised as a key natural hazard of the... while its indirect impact is correlated to the fact that space weather can heat the upper atmosphere and cause it to ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... interested in politics. Sorry, Asgardian Parliamentarians, but most of them will be ‘just about managing’ on their home planet or space station. This is, in fact, an unintentional subtext of Star Wars, revealed by the fact that almost all the non...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... scene and not merely watching it anymore. The reality of space travel could be overwhelming. Earth out the window is never ... and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... abandoning of the international institutions that remained, until the mid-1970s, the global centre for space diplomacy. For space-related affairs, the most important of such institutions is the UN (United Nations), particularly its Committee on the...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
... exploitation’ has something of a negative hue predisposing opinions on the subject. Similarly, neither ‘use of outer space’ or ‘space exploration’ encompass any commercial motive, as they refer to generic and rather scientific purposes. So far, the...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... of Mississippi School of Law, and his courses at the University of North Dakota include space law, history of the space age, space politics & policy, space & the environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several...
