March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... to elaborate new mechanisms to encourage growth of the space industry and, on the other, the urgent necessity to ensure safety and unhindered performance of activities in outer space to preserve outer space as accessible for all mankind. The current...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... between the diplomatic, political and legal nature of COPUOS with economics, business and industry related ambitions of private and commercial space community is not an easy task and constitutes a significant barrier in efforts to create new, better...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... do this, however, we need to enable the construction of a cislunar infrastructure and space enterprise as, despite the ‘billionaire cavalry’ (as Rick Tumlinson of Deep Space Industries likes to call them) of Musk, Bezos, Branson, et al, they cannot...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... the world’s new space powers. Indeed, a recent review, entitled ‘State of the space industrial base, 2024’ [New Space Nexus, 2025] considered...reprisal, seized foreign assets of the Great Wall Industry Company which arranged the deal. Since then, ...