September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...capabilities to satisfy government requirements. Leadership and vision My vision for space policy is one that maintains the United States as the preeminent spacefaring nation, supports our allies and improves the livelihood of people around the world...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... which produced the rules now governing the emergence of any space mining activities arising from the United States. Commercial rules The Competitiveness Act modified four areas (‘Titles’) of space activity in the US. [4] Firstly, it made significant...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...regarding specific capabilities, but the following propositions can be made. To further its interests in space security, the United States should: build a future space architecture that is prepared for war - and particularly for limitable war develop...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... domain in potential conflict. These actions have not gone unanswered. The US military re-established United States Space Command, and the United States Space Force became the first new US military service since 1947. US allies and partners...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...come along and mine it as well? Who will decide whether there will be ‘interference’ when, as stated before at least in the United States, no federal agency has been delegated that jurisdiction by statute? Without further legislation, those decisions...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... to grant the government relief since Nancy was a bona fide purchaser at a court-sanctioned auction requested by the United States. Accordingly, the government could not deprive Nancy of title to the bag or the intertwined Moon dust. Nancy...