March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... environmental impacts associated with goods and services throughout the entire life cycle, from the resource mining to its disposal/recycle. The use of life cycle thinking (analysing a product from cradle to grave) avoids burden...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... our solar system is rich with resources that can be used to displace some of the most toxic means of mining resources on the Earth. These resources, such as industrial quantities of Platinum Group metals, available from the Moon...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... first certification for BVLOS flights. Danish Aviation Systems16 are experts in drones for agriculture, land surveying, mining and research. They have developed the first drone for firefighters in Denmark with both HD and infrared...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., retrofit, and servicing, possible active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial...
February 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
... and lemon. And, finally, the sweets for coffee. “The sweets were designed with a dear friend of mine, who’s actually a world class chocolate master,” recalls Schmidt. “We came up with this idea to do a space rock because...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... be addressed in terms of national legislation. New legislation in the US - known as the ‘Space Act of 2015’ - is focused on the space mining of asteroids rather than diverting dangerous space rocks from hitting Earth. With the US enacting this type...
