March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... first satellites or commercial companies adding new capability to a large constellation. In an environment that features commercial space activity like never before, improved engagement with the private sector will be key in enabling the success...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... to find ways to improve a situation, one first has to know about it and a reliable assessment of the environmental impact of space activities has never been carried out. So one of the first challenges was to establish methods and yardsticks for...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
.... Thus, limitations on high-resolution data distribution are gradually being lifted, and licensing procedures for space activity are being simplified. Finally, university teams that eventually become microsatellite businesses are not very common...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... forth in the present Treaty’. Nothing is said about the essence, scope, boundaries of and requirements for private space activities. However, the said Article VI also stipulates that states shall authorise and continuously supervise non-governmental...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
...as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Continued maintenance of these stations has contributed to the evolution of Australia’s role in international space activities. The 1960s were also defi ned by the Australian government’s ratifi cation of the 1967 Outer...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... compliance with the provision of planetary protection under Article IX. Importantly, state responsibility for national space activities performed by non-governmental entities (including private research institutes and the private industry sector...
