March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... of the top public space debris problems. NASA visualisation of LEO (low-Earth orbit) clutter A number of policy, legal, and regulatory questions will need to be addressed both nationally and internationally to advance workable ADR solutions. Among...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... actual perpetrator. This would be without any prior legal transparency and clarity that (mostly) would have been...there in states with a specific national space law. Therefore, legal clarity and transparency can by themselves even serve as incentives ...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
...satellites to aid in their tracking. It might have similar legal and political problems to actual ADR but it could greatly ...community as a whole should conduct system architecture and legal studies to better understand the issues surrounding active ...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... often referred to as the ‘first space war’. Existing international legal regimes are not designed to cope with a rising number of ... of space traffic management because the existing international legal regime does not address such concerns in anything...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... authority for space activities. Certification will remove legal uncertainties. For example, certification transfers responsibility for...in place the ISRU consortium will have technical, legal and financial standing to create a mining consortium and...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...contribution to the conservation task, but it carries no legal weight. It does not even imply obligations for ...future US lunar operators, let alone any international regulatory agreement. Legally, at present, there are no protections for any of the...
