January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...removed, has been edited and amended for standalone publication. About the author Dr Bleddyn Bowen is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, an expert in strategy, space warfare and the military uses of outer space, and...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... for much legal discussion in the IISL sessions of the IAC. Idiosyncrasies For all its idiosyncrasies, the International Astronautical Congress remains, arguably, the world’s most diverse and multidisciplinary space conference In fact, it was in one...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... to complex issues of registration and state responsibility and liability in the course of space activities. The main task of international space law since its inception was to ensure free, unimpeded and nondiscriminatory access of mankind into space...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... satellite to reach orbit, Dongfanghong-1, on 24 April 1970, a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer from countries such as the Soviet...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... and other important legal issues related to debris and active debris removal, various States, legal scholars, international organisations and non-governmental organisations have called for a new, binding treaty on space debris, or for clarifying...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... joined the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Corps in January 2000 and made his first spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2002 in support of the Odissea mission. He served as a flight engineer and conducted 23 experiments in life...
