May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... to as the ‘first space war’. Existing international legal regimes are not designed to cope with a rising number of cubesats flying in loose formation some 500 km above Earth - a more institutional form of space traffic management might now...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... activities in space, the potential of our cluttering up Earth orbit with space junk, or the advent of cubesats, megasatellite constellations, hypersonic transport, stratospheric and celestial body pollution or robotic freighters - and many other...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
.... After launch on an Orbital ATK rocket to the ISS, Asgardia-1 will be deployed from the External Cygnus NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer, mounted on the outside of the Cygnus spacecraft. The satellite will be deployed from Cygnus after the...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... number of available spacecraft, we can get a rate for the period. From 2007 to 2016 the LEO non-cubesat active fleet grew from 344 to 602 spacecraft. For simplicity, let’s consider the fleet size flat...
