July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... is we stay on Earth forever, and some eventual extinction event wipes us out. The alternative is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species, which I hope you agree that is the right way to go.” This is Musk’s primary...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
...operations in cislunar space between Earth and Moon, it is increasingly critical to establish a common set of principles to govern the civil exploration and use of outer space. International space agencies that join NASA in the Artemis programme will...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...Liberation Army (PLA). National strategies such as Military-Civil Fusion leverages civilian and commercial space research and development...applications. The opaque ties between the commercial and civil sectors to the People’s Liberation Army fuels ...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... warning period, in order to enable the design and launch of several deflection mitigation missions, and equally for civil protection arrangements to be made. Participants in the rehearsal exercise for hypothetical asteroid 2015 PDC had to deal with...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... space governance system that addresses current and emerging concerns; HEREBY resolves by consensus to: Call upon civil society, academics, governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to consider establishing a Working Group to prepare...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...often, space policy is considered in silos - national security, civil, and commercial. Policies are crafted without much thought to how ...risks or costs are too high for commercial enterprise, our civil agencies, like NASA, must lead. NASA is an ...
