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...
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...
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...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... with other appropriate international, regional and local institutions and the private sector. Every aspect of each space activity or space-related issue need not be regulated by binding international treaties, but it is equally true that every such...
