September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... areas that demonstrate the way sustainability is being tackled: space surveillance and tracking, standards of policy, international collaboration and technology? Yes, that sums it up well. We need space surveillance and tracking in order to identify...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... National Space Strategy, published in 2021, explicitly supports HSF involvement and positions Artemis as a pathway to greater international collaboration. With a mix of ESA-led initiatives, lunar ambitions and private-sector momentum, the UK’s human...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... existing treaty-based space law is either realistic or fit for purpose. Seemingly anachronistic ideals of peaceful international collaboration in the interests of all humanity have become strained by increasing militarisation and conduct in pursuit...
November 2025
Unlocking the secrets of Europa
... flyby in 2026, this time of Earth, will give the spacecraft the energy it needs to reach Jupiter. International collaboration The quest to explore Europa is a global endeavour. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission complements the European Space Agency...
12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... (12 July), beginning at 16:30 CEST. Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane rocket. For more information see...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... for use of the ISS for scientific and technological research and development, commercial activity, and international collaboration. Private astronaut experiences could range from private citizen expeditions to government-enabled scientific research...
