August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
..., ultimately lead to the increasing maturity of automation as it applies to mission planning and operations. What used to be exclusively manual activities (the planning and operations of space activities) are now enhanced and streamlined through the...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... Today, norms around space security are considered lax: this also applies to those around cybersecurity. The Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) was launched in 2016 through a civil society initiative...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is also Project Director of the MILAMOS (McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space), and author of numerous books and papers. The author...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... of collision avoidance using artificial intelligence because as constellations grow to hundreds and thousands of satellites, manually avoiding collisions “will become impossible”. Although the interference probability is never equal to zero, the...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering space flight ‘First Orbit’, and wrote the best-selling Haynes owner’s workshop manual on Apollo 11. Riley has a PhD in planetary science from Imperial College and is a Visiting Professor of Science & Media at the...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... Law, and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also the Managing Editor of McGill Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS).