04 February 2018
The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space Activities
...mankind’. This view has evolved in recent years, because the space law treaties are increasingly understood to apply to states as opposed to ...As is often the case with discussions of space law, the broaching of a subject generates more questions ...
July 2014
The peaceful use of space
... was instrumental in the development of the five space law treaties and the five sets of principles and declarations ...entities cannot work outside the international framework of space law. Ultimately, states are responsible for the space activities...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...are raising funds to launch commercial CubeSat constellations. Moore’s Law What precisely lies at the heart of this satellite revolution... each time with more sophisticated components (per Moore’s Law) and learn from the mistakes of the past deployment...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... confirm) 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...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...type of enterprise entails. The only established international law that has widespread acceptance is the Outer Space .... These efforts include the McGill University Air and Space Law Institute ‘Global Space Governance Study’ that devotes a chapter...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
..., and at last, after decades of battling bureaucracies, changing laws, investing time and money and creativity, it has begun. ...is the idea that, while a specific framework of laws and restrictions is completely necessary to protect life in the...
