21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... venture that we're engaging in is hopefully going to get us into new conversations, into new areas - new areas of law and new areas of how humankind, you know, sort of regulates itself as we go forward," Laporte said. Bridenstine said accelerating...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... fact that a company can launch multiple times a year and each time with more sophisticated components (per Moore’s Law) and learn from the mistakes of the past deployment, and one begins to see the power of this innovation...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
...) the wave. The first method, called inspiral, is calculated using post-Newtonian theory. It uses Newton’s laws, and step-by-step adds in different hypotheses to take into account general relativity. The merger method uses numerical ...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... space treaties we seem to try to cope with things such as ‘codes of conduct’, transparency and confidence-building measures, model space national laws, and international voluntary guidelines such as those associated with orbital space debris. Until...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... no matter how robust - is only one of the drivers of social improvements and sustainability. Laws and regulations matter, but intentionality, culture and collective responsibility drive the progress (or regression) people will experience long before...
18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... Ram Jakhu, Associate Director at the Centre for Research of Air and Space Law and one of our featured authors in our latest print edition. Ram Jakhu and Lena De Winne with the latest print edition of ROOM, IAC 2015...