August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... the appropriate State Party to the Treaty. In order to effectively supervise their own national activity, space-active states have enacted national space laws to establish a regulatory framework and it is through this regulatory process that states...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...and led by the Presidency Cabinet, will allow for more effective interaction by the stakeholders related to space activities and provide the space sector with another level of commitment from policy development and investment. At an operational level...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... assets, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and the International Space Station (ISS) and its crew. Further, they could hinder future space activities through a collision cascade effect known as the Kessler syndrome, whereby debris...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
...example, by requiring more shielding or to conduct evasive manoeuvres - and they threaten the long-term benefits of space activities. Interconnected satellite communications networks. Debris removal Today, there are about a million human-made objects...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... is returned to Earth within an approximately 25-year timeframe. Addressing the 2024 Management and Sustainability of Outer Space Activities conference in Lisbon, Portugal, the Director of UNOOSA, Aarti Holla-Maini, stated: “Unlike the gradual...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...-century but also on the collective path forward into the future. This article highlights space debris, a specific aspect of growth in space activities that affects everyone who derives benefit from the final frontier. It will attempt to elucidate...
