December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
..., sufficient flexibility in the strategy and framework is needed. Terrestrial industry partners are in many cases not used to cooperating with space industries and in some instances could require that the space sector adopts different approaches...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... it provides the data required by the user. This approach also gives Europe an excellent opportunity for international cooperation with the global scientific community and in the area of technological development. GOCE: Launched in 2009, the Gravity...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... accepted that it was an on going and organic process, whereby notions of space sustainability develop as both technology and cooperative mechanisms evolve. One only has to look at the success of the UN Debris Mitigation Guidelines to see how broad...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... to ask whether urgent global challenges such as climate change and space debris can help drive international cooperation in space. The world has already seen 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming and is well on its way to two degrees...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... air and space activities is so intertwined that the new organisation may not be able to develop without deep cooperation and coordination with the older organisations. It is therefore suggested that in order to meet the immediate and urgent...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
...as the global leader for horizontal launch services. Andrew Turner: International partnerships are invaluable for cooperative spaceport development, providing diverse expertise, shared resources and enhanced innovation. Collaborating with established...