October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... the use and exploitation of ISRU materials for Lunar Villages and Mars bases is unlikely to be prohibited by current international law. The USA’s Space Act of 2015 attempts to encourage the peaceful commercial use of materials beyond Earth and...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
...for future space generations [see ‘Space debris conundrum for international law makers’, Ward Munters, Leuven Centre for Global Governance .... RemoveDebris satellite launch from the International Space Station in 2018. Business considerations...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... A high level of standardisation and unification in complex technical systems helps move to serial production According to current international law, once an SC finished active work in low orbit, it must be removed from orbit in no more than 25 years...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
.... Introduced by the UN in 1974, the Convention is based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is regarded as the basic international law of space, and requires that all objects launched into space must be registered “to the greatest extent feasible...
