January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... 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...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...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...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... an even larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space. I see this as a consequence of traditional space becoming less influential in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being lessened...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...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 ...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and was until 2015 a research associate at Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...that of other government economic policy instruments in achieving commercialisation policy goals for government-led space programmes. As part of US Space Policy Directive-1, the President of the United States set two objectives: “the return of humans...
