September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
...maritime law. Here, Professor Kai-Uwe Schrogl, President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), assesses the current state of play and addresses the challenges faced by the international law-making community to create a system to support...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... to Orion to Gateway, human landing systems, ground systems, communications, spacesuits and more - its staggering. First at the Moon, and then at Mars,” says NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy. “But we're NASA, and we're rising to the challenge."
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...backing) consisting of secondary smallsats attaching themselves to a primary launch mission. The challenge lies in the fact that the larger the LV, the ability to divide up the launch costs between multiple smallsat rideshares increases, thus driving...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... and freezing temperatures is NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission, which took up the challenge to study Mercury from orbit between March 2011 and April 2015. Although Mercury can appear as a very...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...Anthropocene Epoch, a period within which human activity shapes the Earth’s geology and the so-called ecosphere. This new global-change dynamic prompts questions. Can humans survive the challenge of climate change and continued population growth? Can...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), actively engaged in addressing the challenge of space debris. The emphasis of the discussions is on debris mitigation and minimisation of objects...
