December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
...programme can establish a platform in which to share new ideas on common and parallel development of both ground and space activities, exploring possible new markets and services for common benefits. Such a platform will need to successfully overcome...
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...
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...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... - education has significant influence on future generations, and the ethical code for space activities will also be addressed. Settlement in space - settlers in space are a strategic arm of the Earth’s population, with all that it entails, including...
