April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...lines indicate (from left): sunset, the end of civil, nautical and astronomical twilights, and the opposite series of... number of visible satellites decreases as twilight advances from civil to nautical, from nautical to astronomical, and from ...
June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
.... These are all vital components for the development of civil society, financial stability and an economy that has to ...under stress. Together with the Committee Chairs, the Asgardian ‘civil service’, and the steady, calm and honest teamwork between ...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... of the field. These agreements established the rules relating to airspace and a whole web of provisions including civil law liability frameworks, managing hijacking and criminality and responsibility for passenger safety. A specialised agency of the...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
...a specialised organisation to promote regulations and standards for commercial uses of space; for instance, the International Civil Aviation Organization’s sphere of influence should extend into space to coordination international SSA and STM. Toward...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... currently happening in a vacuum: a vacuum of law and regulation. Once one ventures beyond Earth, there is no criminal law, no civil law, no rule of law - at least in the context of civilian missions - and this presents some interesting problems for...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
..., and spy satellites. Professional communities refer to the civil and military uses of such technologies as ‘dual use... of the original technological drive was military, with civil and commercial applications developed afterwards. The satellite and ...
