July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... which are binding upon Luxembourg do not make operators internationally liable for damage caused by space objects on the Earth, in air space or in outer space; instead, it is the States that launch or procure the launch that are potentially liable...
October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
...000 by 2035, the risk of catastrophic collisions is no longer theoretical. The Act mandates improved tracking of space objects and stricter end-of-life disposal standards, aligning EU policy with international norms. Safety is an increasingly urgent...
09 September 2020
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth, deploys unknown object before deorbiting
... correspondent Andrew Jones, the spacecraft released an unknown object before deorbiting. The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship was registered in the catalog of space objects under the international designation of 2020-063 and number 46389. The...
19 July 2017
Mayak satellite set to shine the brightest
... two important scientific goals; to be used as a reference to verify the calculations of the apparent stellar magnitude of space objects, along with providing information about the air density at high altitude. Plus it is also testing an aerodynamic...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... system (DAS). DAS structure and operation The data analysis system for combined monitoring of near-Earth space objects and early warning notification is a unified system of software tools developed on the basis of scientific methodology and systems...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... Treaty declares that any State that has registered a space object shall retain legal and de facto jurisdiction and control over that object. As a piece of space debris is considered a ‘space object’ for legal purposes, even if the State were to lose...
