March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
... to drafting and adopting a binding international treaty to prevent the placement of arms in outer space and the threat or use of force against outer space objects. Such a treaty was first proposed by Russia and China back in 2008. An updated Russian...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... need for ‘further measures’ and for states ‘to refrain from actions contrary’ to the peaceful-use-of-outer-space objective. While this policy direction is clear and important, regrettably from the perspective of practical diplomacy, the PAROS...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... services the company has partnered with the University of Adelaide to develop a nanosatellite-based space object detection system to detect and track space objects and, in April 2017, an Inovor nanosatellite called SUSat - designed and built with...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... would arguably qualify as such distress. Article 5 of the same treaty obliges States with reason to believe that a space object (or its component parts) that has returned to Earth “is of a hazardous or deleterious nature”, and there is an obligation...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... among the various actors. They advocate enhancing the registration of space objects, sharing information on space situational awareness (SSA) and promoting awareness of space sustainability to address the potential hazards arising from debris. The...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
...solar and lunar gravity perturbations, satellites are expected to regularly correct their orbits. Also, as the population of space objects is increasing rapidly, satellites need to perform manoeuvres more often to prevent any risk of collision. These...
