October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... global challenges we are facing, and my term of office allows me the opportunity to help shape the future of global space activities. Taking over the presidency of the IAF, it was my firm intention and my obligation - together with the experienced...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... competition rather than military struggle (as exhibited by the continuous proliferation of industrial, infrastructural and commercial space activity), the belief that the US is so far ahead in terms of military capabilities and advanced technologies...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... orbital population will undoubtedly have a profound effect on the way in which future space activity is conducted Whilst space itself may be ‘big’, the useful space around the Earth is finite, and orbits desirable for satellite operations are even...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...… and, of course, debris mitigation. It is clear from this that IOS includes a full range of already well-understood space activities, as well as those that are completely new and which will have to be taken into account in the risk...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
As Douglas Adams notes in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. Really big.” Although humanity’s space aspirations may be great, most of our space activities in the short term are going to take place in the relatively tiny near-Earth ...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... environment is increasingly “Congested, Contested and Competitive”. Although it was always recognised that commercial space activities contributed to the “three Cs”, the implicit focus from a US military perspective has always been on the extent...
