June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
.... Alternatively humanity can look for values and try to create a shared understanding that becomes codified through regulation (rather than derived from it). Fundamentally, the different values that underpin state activity and commercial activity...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... scientists and engineers meet and talk together about future initiatives in space, while space lawyers and regulators consult together in totally different sessions. The Montreal Declaration emphasized the need for interdisciplinary consultation and...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
...Earth. Access to space is both imminent and inevitable, so we need to think more broadly about how we properly legislate, regulate and nurture the future of space. Forgive the pun, but the commercialisation of space is currently happening in a vacuum...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... are among the fastest evolving areas of law, particularly within the EU. As prime examples, the EU directives and regulations RoHS and REACh have considerable implications for European space activities (See references 1 and 2). Increasing attention...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
...) and CAA legal experts classify spaceplanes as ‘aircraft’, meaning that the existing body of civil aviation safety regulation would apply to spaceplanes. But at this stage of their development commercial spaceplanes cannot comply with many of these...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... space is used responsibly to allow all operators to produce high quality services with minimal downtime. And those regulations must be enforced to allow operators, both ground and space, to work harmoniously within the ever-increasingly congested...
