April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... Countries new to spaceflight will likely either have introduced or be in the process of introducing regulations to govern space activity which will need to dovetail with existing regulations. All of these licenses and consents must be integrated and...
17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... working with launch companies based across the world," he adds. Reusability to promote and or encourage more sustainable space activities is one of the current hot topics in both the UK and global launch sectors. While not strictly...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... our interactions at institutional level with great seriousness, as well as carrying out advanced, inspiring and educational European space activities - rather than engaging in quarrels over details about who has the power in whichever area. There...
July 2014
The peaceful use of space
... Private entities cannot work outside the international framework of space law. Ultimately, states are responsible for the space activities of their nationals as private space activities are subject to authorisation and continuous supervision, as per...
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...
