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...
May 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...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... cannon was installed to fend off prospective attackers. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible. On the American side, the growth of military...
21 July 2016
New Space Law Vacancy At McGill University
... the last ten years from a well-known university and at least five-year 2 full-time experience in Space Law teaching, research and/or work. The ideal candidate must have a great track record of original research, a high...
14 March 2021
Advanced Introduction to Space Law
...mentioned the main space law treaties, the author introduces a novel schematic which organises the structure of space law, and the contents..., political and commercial realms” to make sure that space law does not “lag behind too far”. Sage advice ...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
.... Put succinctly, most of the key reference sources in space law are getting a bit long in the tooth and, while...astronaut I never expected to be interested in, let alone involved in, space law,” he admits. “But that was back when I was the payload...
