September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... may ultimately outweigh the costs of conducting active debris removal. Furthermore, ESA has concluded that delays ...economic development. Key IOS segments such as life extension, debris removal, asset relocation and inspection are expected to mature...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
...January 2013, and derived from the ESA Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment (MASTER) model. To study the effect of...in LEO. We may conclude that international space debris mitigation guidelines are adequate to manage the space environment...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
...the near-Earth space environment with so many satellites and so much debris that nothing can even get through. As things stand we are on...And are there links between climate change and space debris? It’s an excellent parallel and there are definite ...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... innovation. In 2022, I convened the first global Space Debris Summit in London with The Royal Society and His Majesty King... Earth orbit into a traffic jam of satellites and debris, with knock-on effects for telecommunications, climate monitoring and...
March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
... Union (ITU). Meanwhile, the US Federal Communications Commission’s revised deorbit rules, the European Space Agency’s Zero Debris efforts, and the proposed European Union Space Act, a formal EU regulation introduced in June 2025 to harmonise safety...
01 June 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... in a robotic arm International Space Station (ISS) is a stark reminder of the increasing dangers posed to orbiting spacecraft by space debris. Near-term robotics operations on the Space Station were continuing as normal this week while NASA and...
