May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...provisions enacted over half a century ago. Into this general silence falls the US Space Act which states: “A United States citizen engaged in commercial recovery of an asteroid resource or a space resource under this chapter shall be entitled to any...
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) ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
.... An examination of commercially available data shows that most of these constellations are operated by companies in the United States, but there are also constellation operators in Russia, China and Europe. Telecommunications is the biggest single...
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...
