14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
...argue that such far-reaching principles should have been developed in a multilateral forum through the United Nations or other international organisations, not bilaterally via government-to-government agreements. But, Bridenstine told reporters, that...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...consequences for resource utilisation. Under the United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations cannot acquire land on celestial bodies.... exploitation of space to be registered from their nation. Arguments over who can export and sell commodities...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... underestimates the importance of space to the survival of humanity as a whole. Indeed, at the Legal Sub-Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (where I have had the honour of being part of the Australian...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
..., Astroscale is closely involved in various formal and ad-hoc industry groups as well as international organisations including: United Nations (UN) – Astroscale’s CEO addressed UNISPACE-50 attendees in Vienna, Austria, in June 2018, the first time...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
.... No military bases or weapons of mass destruction shall be put into orbit or anywhere beyond Earth So far the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has adopted Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines as the first ...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... of new initiatives to define and assess sustainable satellite operations. After nearly a decade of intergovernmental negotiations, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) adopted the Guidelines for the Long-term...
