February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... on a global scale The role of JTC5 - the Joint Technical Committee for space - entails developing a set of coherent standards covering space activities, both for space-based objects and the utilisation of signals (both natural and artificial) for...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... 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...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... 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...
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
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... has long since arrived. Astropolitics refers to the political aspects of any activity in or to do with outer space. No activity escapes politics, not even international cooperation in space science. Who cooperates with whom, why, and on what terms...
