... and expand globally in the coming years. There are serious and feasible plans for a range of proposed space activities, from launching constellations of thousands of small satellites and operation of transportation systems for safe and convenient...
... for successful colonisation. Values and principles Technological advancements and the lowering cost of space activities associated with the Space 2.0 revolution will give rise to novel and unanticipated human rights concerns, existent in an era...
... 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...
... charged particles. Even if such radiation cannot directly reach humans on Earth, it can harm humans involved in orbital space activities and can also disturb the areas through which high frequency radio communication travels. During a solar...
... 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...