...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...
... 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...
... - 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...
... 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...
... 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...
..., 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...