October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects by the United States and other allied States. In the meantime, the intentional destruction of a State’s own satellite(s) in space has emerged as a means of showcasing military space power...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... with low-cost infrastructure subsidised and built by China. Sending Chinese astronauts to the Moon before the United States would send a dramatic signal, implying that governance and technology with Chinese characteristics is a better way to create...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... of about 41.5 degrees. During this period, Starlink satellites launched by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of the United States of America have had two close encounters with the China Space Station. For safety reasons, the ...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... the SpaceX Crew-1 and Crew-2 Dragons, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus-15 resupply ship, all from the United States, and Russia’s Progress 75 and 77 resupply ships and Soyuz MS-18 crew ship. Legislation in place provides that transport...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... increasingly contaminated by space debris and increasingly contested by state and non-state actors alike. As of mid-August 2023, there ...have been conducted since the 1960s, mostly by the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
... to walk on the moon in 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission, inspiring generations of astronauts and subsequently giving the United States the lead in the Space Race The voting result has confirmed that the Russian initiative on preventing...
