October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...accumulating in Earth orbit (I’ve heard numerous people say that debris mitigation was the next buzz-word to arouse investors in space ...efforts in that direction. On the topic of space debris, Planet and Spire, the two largest commercial CubeSat ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... forward. Given that multi-disciplinary and international groups are now creating guidelines such as the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines or the Hague Resources Building Blocks, such engagement could provide fruitful headway towards agreement. The...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... to pass the buck, as there is no binding legislation in place that would force all space players to track space debris/mitigate the problems it poses. And although scientists insist that WT1190F poses no threat to anyone on the ground, its...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... Earth So far the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has adopted Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines as the first step of establishing a new regulatory regime of the long-term sustainability in space. At present...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... orbital environments. Clean Space is also tackling space debris mitigation and remediation, to ensure highly-trafficked orbits remain ...2023, will be the world’s first large-scale space debris removal mission, to capture and deorbit an entire ESA-...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
...that they gravitate towards individual symposia (on space propulsion, space debris or space history, for example), but this tends to... of conference sessions and exhibits. The need for space debris mitigation in low Earth orbit now seems to be a ‘given...
