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...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... applications”. By comparison, this proposed definition can be contrasted with the definition of ‘commercial’ space activities in the US National Space Policy, issued in 2010 under the Obama administration: “the term ‘commercial’, for the purposes...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... they are doing and where. It is worth keeping in mind what the Accords are about: civil space activities. Security operations in space have their own rules, and don’t often raise the same novel challenges posed by human...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
..., drafted at the height of the Cold War when space activity was the preserve of two superpowers, the United States ...ownership of these principles. The changing of behaviours in space activity and the move towards an underpinning value-system based on...
