April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
...and, without a frictionless or fairly frictionless interaction with the relevant authorities, spaceport developments will be slowed. It is CST’s opinion that, based on the evidence to date, the front-runners are the proposed sites from Norway, Sweden...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...regulators will scrutinise those artistic and advertising ventures with at least one eye on international and public opinion. Those seeking definitive answers on this will be disappointed. There is no help is coming from traditional, black-letter law...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
...space sustainability, but we need to avoid ‘space greenwashing’. In my opinion, it’s time for for less talk and more science, more solutions.... agreements are also non-binding and, in my opinion, obsolete. The solutions for space traffic management are...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... benefits, both at home and abroad, can be considerable. "The Chinese view this as a useful exercise in swaying popular opinion inside the country in favour of this particular regime", Launius says. "This is a way to make the people in the...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... a self-sufficient system set that is an independent SC, meant to be combined with other such blocks. In our opinion, one of the results of developing modules and standardisation of satellite systems together with the distribution of a single network...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
... (URSC). After a rigorous medical and psychological selection process that took into account the participants’ own opinions about their desired team, six women aged between 25 and 34 were chosen for the experiment. The...
