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...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
... blessed with a happy ending. Channelling the war in Ukraine, the authors consider “whether the long-stable space governance regime will fracture into two parallel systems, one led by the US and the other by Russia and...
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...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... we share a ‘common future’. They also said we have a ‘common heritage’ and enshrined this in the Outer Space Treaty and other aspects of space governance, such as the consensus mechanism practiced at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer...
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...
