...do much more. With the advancement of robotics, in particular medical robotics, technologies that used to be found only in science fiction may soon become a reality in the space industry. The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has a program...
In November 2015 the United States, passed the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (HR 2262), which includes Title IV - ‘Space Resource Exploration and Utilization’. Section 402 adds Section 51303 to the US space law code. A United States...
... effort is underway in the United States to begin using space in ways that have heretofore been the stuff of science fiction. Whatever the immediate ramifications of the new law may be, one thing is nearly certain - that these issues...
...; who should be assigned as the investigatory authority and who should administer any resulting punishment? Whilst popular science fiction tends to give unlimited authority to the mission commander, this is problematic for two reasons. The first...
We are in the midst of a transformational era in the history of spaceflight. What was once an activity purely limited to governments and national space agencies is now experiencing a flourish of innovation led by entrepreneurial private sector ...
... market development scenarios are useful tools to forecast possible impacts on the EO landscape and the following three ‘science-fiction’ scenarios are ‘extreme’ options. Scenario 1: Solid revenues from the VHR data for the intelligence community...