June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... climate change and identifying exploitative practices or optimising agriculture and farming. The possibility of a ‘second home’ should the Earth become inhospitable or overpopulated is also often mentioned by space exploration advocates. Some could...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... are science missions. In a sense, scientific missions can be seen as a type of space activity to which we are inclined to assign a higher moral value than commercial space exploitation, carried out for what could be considered more trivial purposes...
28 May 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli proposes armed space platform to defend planet Earth - URBOCOP
...law makers. At some point the first murder of a person, either from space or in space, will take place. “If, or rather when, this happens - will a... as we move into a new era of space exploitation and exploration we will need steadfast and robust laws...
27 May 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli proposes armed space platform to defend planet Earth - URBOCOP
...law makers. At some point the first murder of a person, either from space or in space, will take place. “If, or rather when, this happens - will a... as we move into a new era of space exploitation and exploration we will need steadfast and robust laws...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
...a workshop and end-user interviews, was performed to identify the most promising energy sub-sectors and space exploitation possibilities. Already-available or planned EO products and missions (such as those within the ongoing Copernicus programme and...
