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Articles tagged: planetary protection

  • curation facility, ESA, JAXA, NASA, roscosmos, samples September 2017 Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material

    ... to be devoid of any potential present or past form of life. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) [1] defines five planetary protection categories with subcategories dependent on the target of the mission and the type of mission (fly-by, orbiter...

    • curation facility
    • ESA
    • JAXA
    • NASA
    • roscosmos
    • samples
    Authors: Aurore Hutzler     Ludovic Ferrière    
  • Cassini, Enceladus, plumes October 2018 Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole

    ... for hosting microbial life in the solar system One of the most challenging problems of astrobiological planetary exploration is planetary protection, i.e. the need to not contaminate any possible habitable environments with microbial life from Earth...

    • Cassini
    • Enceladus
    • plumes
    Authors: Kostas Konstantinidis    
  • global commons, Outer Space Treaty, space debris, space law, UN COPUOS October 2024 International space law - the beginning of the end?

    ... space debris, numerous other issues will need to be addressed. Such issues include matters related to planetary protection, planetary defence, cybersecurity, space weather, space transportation systems, standardisation of space ports, space traffic...

    • global commons
    • Outer Space Treaty
    • space debris
    • space law
    • UN COPUOS
    Authors: Nishith Mishra     Ram Jakhu    
  • Elon Musk, mars, SpaceX, special report January 2017 Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect

    ... Space Treaty, any Martian colonists would be regarded as “squatters, or pirates”. Other commentators raised questions of planetary protection, fearing speculative worst-case scenarios in which terrestrial micro-organisms caused a mass extinction...

    • Elon Musk
    • mars
    • SpaceX
    • special report
    Authors: Stephen Ashworth    
  • Article, astrobiology, extremophiles, microbiology, SkCube September 2016 Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist

    ..., rovers and spacecraft are prepared prior to being launched into space. It is in these rooms that the greatest planetary protection efforts are put in place in order to make sure that only a very minimal amount of microorganisms and other...

    • Article
    • astrobiology
    • extremophiles
    • microbiology
    • SkCube
    Authors: Michaela Musilova    
  • active debris removal, ADR, space domain awareness, Space situational awareness, space sustainability, space traffic management April 2025 Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness

    ... framework to guide sustainable efforts in space is laborious. Guidelines such as the Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) Planetary Protection Policy are non-binding, because nations and private entities have different priorities, making consensus...

    • active debris removal
    • ADR
    • space domain awareness
    • Space situational awareness
    • space sustainability
    • space traffic management
    Authors: Marcel Debczynski     Marco Rocchetto     Viktoria Urban    
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