February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... is innovative because it acknowledges that the traditional boundaries between the different space sectors - security, commercial and civil - are no longer as definitive or limiting as they once were. Uniting effort Going forward, common issues and...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
..., we are becoming more and more vulnerable to cosmic hazards. The bottom line is that we, as a rapidly growing global civilization, are more and more at risk. Solar storms, asteroid and comet strikes, and orbital debris problems...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... (35,786 km) down to very low Earth orbits (~200 to 2000 km). About half of these are telecommunications satellites, 25% are civil and military remote sensing and weather satellites, and 8% are for navigation. The rest are research...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... our activities in space as somehow quarantined into separate ‘pigeon-holes’. Each type of space activity - be it military, or civil, or commercial, or scientific, or ‘dual/multi use’ - has an impact on other space activities. They are not strange...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... USA, the Federal Aviation Administration is encouraging entrepreneurial passenger suborbital spaceflights and the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority recently published a ground-breaking report, ‘UK Government Review of Commercial Spaceplane Certification...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
...in forthcoming months. There is the potential to create a solid foundation for multilateral discussions with inputs from the civil, commercial and military space sectors, with the participation of existing space powers as well as emerging actors from...
