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...
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...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... alliance. While existing successful alliances like NATO have nascent space policies, the membership of NATO is not large enough to encompass the array of space actors that will need to be involved in securing this domain and theatre in the future...
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...
26 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
...era to the ‘What Next?’ Space Shuttle era with some damning analysis on the way. “The space program was not high on Nixon’s policy agenda”, says the author with... for thought with reference to the direction of future US space policy. Mark Williamson
