October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... stage in which there is general recognition of the need for further research. Unfortunately, as with many areas of space policy, this has led to stagnation. On the one hand, the understandable emphasis of private companies on product development and...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... 2006 Goddard symposium: “The Moon has unique significance for all space applications for a reason that to my amazement is hardly ever discussed in popular accounts of space policy. The Moon is the closest source of material that lies far up Earth...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... economic arguments have been central in data sharing policy decisions. Data sales and commercialisation have been attempted... USA. Her research deals with international space policy issues, primarily international cooperation in Earth observing ...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... developments do not reflect a major change in the government’s overall approach to space - a review alone of the Space Activities Act does not constitute policy By 2005, a Space Policy Advisory Group was proposed by Senator Grant Chapman. This group...
19 September 2023
A Research
... peer-reviewed) chapters cover everything from space law and international cooperation to the use of space resources and the militarisation of space – indeed, everything you’d expect from a book on space policy. The overall aim of the text is to “set...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...questions of mission licensing and made changes in national space policy to support the growing space industry. In 2016, the UK initiated a Space Strategy with a focus on topics including in-space robotics and, in 2018, announced its ‘Prosperity from...
