March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
...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...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
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...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... 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...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; 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...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
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 ...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... 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...
