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...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... after Helios, the Pleiades system was designed as a full dual system, able to provide imagery to both commercial/civil and military users with appropriate security and priority rules. In parallel, in the mid-90s, France and...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... intelligence in the universe? Although many imagine that the news would be disruptive, possibly to the extent of threatening civil order and provoking a crisis for organised religion, there is little reason to think this is true. In 1996, there...
