November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
.... About the authors J Lauren Napier is currently an RDF PhD Researcher in Space Governance at Northumbria University where she is focusing on how to maintain a sustainable space governance framework in LEO. She is also a board member of the Just...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
... aimed at developing a viable planetary defence strategy have been suggested and implemented, including the Global Space Governance Study, the Planetary Safeguard System, and URBOCOP – Universal Robotic Battle Cosmic Platform, the latter presented...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...IX of the OST. One possible future approach for space activities - and perhaps the most likely given the increasing recourse to a broader ‘rules of the road’ methodology for space governance - might be the establishment of transparency and confidence...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... ethical underpinnings of space governance. He co-edited the book Frontiers of Space Risk on the variety of risks involved in human space activity. He has recently worked with a consortium of space operators reporting to the UK Space Agency regarding...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
... recognise in their introduction, the “greatest contemporary challenge in space law [which dates largely from the late 1960s] is ... the ‘regulatory responses’ and Part III discusses ‘space governance’. The authors are legal, policy and industry experts...
22 June 2021
Space Debris Peril
... mitigation and Active Debris Removal (ADR). The volume ends with sections on space law, risk assessment and mitigation (including insurance) and space governance aspects. Most chapters end with a list of acronyms, a glossary, further reading and...
