March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... of the US Act, legislative action in other countries and the increasing activities of space resources-focused commercial enterprises creates a window - and a need - for additional action to define a regulatory scheme that reduces the political...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... easily linked to other practices: if one sees economical processes primarily as economical practices such as bargaining, negotiating, setting up enterprises, checking balances and so forth then not only the comparison but also the interplay of such...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... Galactic, etc. have embraced disruptive new space technology and reinvented the innovative nature of outer space enterprise. It could now be the turn of space agencies to show their innovative side and take the lead in planetary...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
..., very saline or extremely acidic conditions? It was because extremophiles had long surpassed what the crew of Starship Enterprise regularly boasts about in Star Trek - that they go where no one has gone before. A famous astrobiologist and...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... to manufacture and launch small satellites from its own soil but has existing commercial and research enterprises actively involved in key areas - Equatorial Launch Australia, UNSW’s Space Engineering Faculty developing small satellites, Gilmour...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... has to support private investment and entrepreneurship, in particular through start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and carry out the SME-friendly policy adopted by the Industrial Policy Committee (IPC) so as to favour...