March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... that often gets ESA missions funded. “The idea that I’ll support your favourite mission if you support mine is something we really need to get beyond,” he says. But, against a backdrop of political instability for the wider European...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
Building a space colony that will protect and sustain a population of hundreds or even thousands of colonists in an environment that is hostile to human life presents huge technological and economic challenges. One of the greatest challenges for the...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... intellectual and property rights. For example, Planetary Resources, a start-up based in Seattle which is focusing on asteroid mining was instrumental in helping to pass the US Space Act of 2015 which provided for ownership protections of certain...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... in private sector? How to address the future of space exploration visions such as colonisation of other planets or asteroid mining should they become reality? What kind of regulatory model will safeguard unlimited access to and free exploration ...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
... laws regulating such exploitation. This is only a matter for the international community to do. Painting showing an asteroid mining mission to an Earth-approaching asteroid. And we have very clear attempts for such regulation. The Moon Agreement...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., who was photographed in orbit peering at Flight Plans through his spectacles. Recalling events in 2014, McCandless explained: “Mine were bi-focal but the higher power area ran vertically, not horizontally, with the ‘add’ segment...
