October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
..., and holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with Monash. Outside of work, he participates in Model United Nations debating conferences and is an active member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His post-graduate...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
...surface-based instruments on a global basis and expressed the need to facilitate international exchange of climate data. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), negotiated at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, called on parties...
July 2018
A moment in space and time
...many Earth states as possible. Admission of Asgardia into international organisations of Earth and ultimately in the United Nations (UN). Opening continental Embassies of Asgardia. A population comprisng of the two percent of the most creative people...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... and convincing evidence is now emerging that increases the urgency for humankind to leave the ‘cradle’. The United Nations Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, released in March 2019, states that “the biomass of wild...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... hazards arising from debris. The body responsible for the development of space law on an international level is the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). In order to establish the content of the LTSG, in 2010 the...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... Age, in 1957, when it established a Minitrack station to follow the American Vanguard satellite, and in 1958 co-founded the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS). Iran’s space stand at the Kish Airshow in the Persian...