June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... of mission design. Instead, the focal point must be on the challenges and opportunities associated with international cooperation and the creation of an accessible digital data library to support global space debris monitoring. At present, there...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... the Westphalian concept of nation states on Earth before reaching out to space. It makes political and legislative sense to cooperate rather than transfer earthly competition and conflict to outer space. It also makes economic sense in equal, if not...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... when various space agencies worldwide are now conceiving global projects that cannot be achieved without international cooperation. Soyuz on the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome Indeed, last summer, ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Worner...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...policy makers. There is no process for international interdisciplinary collaboration on planetary defence. If there were a better process for cooperation, then new and more viable international space law and policy might become possible. This diagram...
03 October 2021
European-Russian Space Cooperation
... new book, in the shadow of Russian-American competition, cooperation between Russia and the third space power, Europe, is ... 20 years. While there, Lovell secured a cooperation agreement between Jodrell and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory....
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... science programme missions, bi- and multi-lateral cooperation with international partners and preparatory technology developments. ..., JAXA and Roscosmos. One of the most prominent cooperative projects is the NASA airborne observatory SOFIA. In this...