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...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... team, as well as for the launch industry as a whole. While the public mostly have warm nostalgia for space activities, as highlighted by the Apollo 50th celebrations last summer, they are increasingly unsure of the need for...
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...
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...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...Russian-built Soyuz rocket from the French and European spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre in December 2020. AI revolution in space Space activities could ultimately be carried out by avatar-robots controlled by humans on Earth or in orbit around the...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... the best way to get out of this imbroglio is to give authority to ICAO to make binding regulations for commercial space activities. About the author Dr Sanat Kaul worked in India’s administrative service in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was...
