February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... effort through ESA but, of course, the UK will probably have to leave EU space programmes. I think there will eventually be new European space policies without the UK - maybe that is a pity but it will be a fact. How do you react to entrepreneurs...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
... matters and is the primary source of advice to the Australian Government on civil space policy. The role of government as a partner and facilitator in space activities will continue to grow, particularly as we watch the rapid transformation of the...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... to the Army, and the Navy did too. Rumsfeld Commission We want a Space Force that journeys into the mid-21st Century confident in its space policy, defence, research, development, acquisition, operations and planning It is not the first...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
..., and not simply recounting the partisan politics of a legislature that factors space into policy-making. A space policy of any kind is political. Recognising the impacts of space on people, societies and polities, good and bad, is political analysis...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... (2011). Overview of the legal and policy challenges of orbital debris removal. Space Policy, 27(1), pp.38—43 for a discussion on the potential risk to space activity in Earth orbit from a cascade effect of space debris known as the Kessler Syndrome...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... Advisers to the President of the European Commission (2012-14) and worked in the Space Policy Unit at the European Commission from 2009-12. At the European Space Agency he managed human and robotic exploration preparation programmes, including the...
