October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... includes cargo transportation, passenger travel and defence uses. Over the last one hundred plus years, regulations and government organisations like the US Federal Aviation Administration and UN International Civil Aviation Organization have played...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... and much more sophisticated modelling of the orbital debris population. Today it’s basically a free-for-all. We’re trying to regulate a 21st century space industry with tools and techniques that were developed in the 1960s based on international...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty’. States typically respond to this obligation through national regulations, laws and licensing regimes. The space resources provisions in the US Act did not establish any elements...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
... these resources is about to become feasible). But one thing remains clear: any unilateral legislation for the regulation of the exploitation of outer space resources lacks the respective jurisdiction of a state. It is therefore null and void. About...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... the device and the extra weight present at launch. Then there is passivation. Satellites are required by international regulations to permanently deplete or in some way make safe all forms of stored energy — both propulsive and electrical — in order...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... commercial satellites (and to that end commercial CubeSats) were recently removed from the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list in the US, any component with military origins (some of which seem completely benign) can still...
