July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...operates several Sentinel satellites in LEO. If Europe can get its act together on space situational awareness, the United States will no longer be alone in monitoring threats in outer space and the whole world will benefit from it. US Geosynchronous...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... commemorated the 40th anniversary of the revolution that transformed the state into a theocracy - with a parliament but with the ...suspension of sanctions. However, in 2019, the United States unilaterally cancelled the JCPOA (under President Trump) ...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, ...activity in low Earth orbit. Starlab’s habitat module is an inflatable unit and the fully deployed habitat would expand to a huge 340 ...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... space is actually implemented. Arguably, the first phase of this effort is embodied within the current discussion in the United States and Europe on space traffic management (STM), but we need to conceptualise it for the international level and then...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
... attractive place in Europe for those looking to Earth’s orbit and beyond." The UK government is working with the United States to establish the necessary technical and legal safeguards for US space launch vehicle operations from UK launch sites...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... to launch a project called NEOCAM and the B612 Foundation (a private non-profit foundation with headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs) is building its Sentinel spacecraft. Both of these...
