October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... to alleviate such occurrences? Answering these questions is vital for any state that anchors high hopes in outer space. Space Agency One of the challenges is ensuring public legitimacy, as institutions rarely survive without the proper recognition...
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...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...its activities and lacks a strong enforcement power. The availability of more diversified weapons increases the vulnerability of space-based systems To better appreciate the situation, let’s look at some numbers: Twelve states have demonstrated their...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...But, after all it gives us in terms of improving the lives of so many people on Earth, is that to be the defining feature of space - as a platform for military conduct? If so, then perhaps the doomsayers may be correct and we had better learn to live...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...engage in designing and building mega-structures in space and to use space resources to sustain our species. ESA lunar ...author Dr Joseph Pelton is former Dean of the International Space University, Arthur C Clarke Foundation founder, and the first...
