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...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... Recreational spaceflight This discussion has only sought to address two of the more discussed legal elements of human space activity. There are still issues of how to classify and register truly hybrid craft such as single-stage-to-orbit...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... how these principles should be applied in practice - primarily due to the fact that the specifics of modern outer space activities were, of course, not known at the time of writing. These uncertainties in application of the OST raise the possibility...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... goes together with the expansion of the number of downstream users using satellite data for non-space activities. Three main types of downstream users can be clearly identified: Earth Observation (EO) users (including meteorological forecasting...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
...enhance the lofty but extremely important goals of maintaining the safety, stability, security and sustainability of space activities, as well as maximising the benefits for humanity. The CASSIOPeiA (Constant Aperture, Solid-State, Integrated Orbital...
