July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... Behnken familiarise themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, prior to the Demo-2 flight test. Space law and health governance The United Nations space law treaties do not specifically address matters of public health. Even so, in 1959, the predecessor...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
...who can encourage or even force the implementation of the code under law (i.e. the UN, EU and individual countries). Proposal The implementation of a code of ethics for activity in space is crucial to all humanity before we organise and carry out any...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... both for research and commercial purposes. The wording ‘peaceful exploration of outer space’, it says, is not against mining per se. Aviation and maritime law Aviation law only talks of sovereignty over the airspace of a nation and leaves the...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... have been created that begin to make the shift needed to support the opening of the frontier. From space resources laws to the recent Artemis Accords, some have shown real vision, and yet, as one of the authors...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... New Zealand. As a result, Eytan Tepper (Research Coordinator & Adjunct Professor, Space Governance at Université Laval, New York) and Christopher Whitehead (lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) have proposed applying the...
April 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...(collisional cascading) and it will now require active debris removal to reverse it. At times one has to wonder at the space industry. Kessler and Cour-Palais’s paper on the “Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites: The Creation of a Debris Belt...
