May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... validating the government’s appetite for commercial imagery. In terms of international cooperation on space sustainability, the United Nations resolution on ‘norms of behaviour’ represents an opportunity for leading space powers to come together and...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
...observe, in real time, the effects of our new ‘space nation’ culture actively developing In her book, Between Us - How...been noted at various professional space conferences and by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the greater ...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... a Safer World was espoused. In 2006, the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency... Response (UN-SPIDER) was established under the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This ...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... and Interagency Relations Mike Gold highlighted the UAE’s “extremely forward-leaning” policies and participation on the United Nations’ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Regulations enabling a potential spaceport have Virgin Galactic...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
..., the mission responds to the pressing need for biomass observations in support of global treaties such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change initiative for the Reduction of Emissions due to Deforestation and Forest Degradation...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... asteroid or comet strike could create havoc and ruin, on perhaps a planetary scale. After decades of urging, the United Nations has created an International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and even a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG...
