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...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... Poland. Supplementary responsibilities of POLSA are keeping in contact with institutions conducting space activities in the world, monitoring the development of space activities in Poland and the world, or leading initiatives to promote and support...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... developing within Australia for more than a decade - that the legislation administered by the department, namely the Space Activities Act 1998 and its subordinate legislation, is not adapted to providing “the right conditions for entrepreneurs and...
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...
