September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
...Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, has been leading a series of round tables on space sustainability, space standards and space policy, to ensure that everyone has a say. With regard to industry, I work on a regular basis through...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
Space sustainability has become a big topic across the space sector in the past decade and seems likely to remain at the core of space development. Here, the author discusses the fundamentals of the subject in relation to building a spacefaring ...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... development of the guidelines, members of UNCOPUOS accepted that it was an on going and organic process, whereby notions of space sustainability develop as both technology and cooperative mechanisms evolve. One only has to look at the success of the...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... and civil society, and published the first iteration of its Best Practices for the Sustainability of Space Operations. The recently-announced Space Sustainability Rating, a collaboration of the World Economic Forum, the MIT Media Lab, the University...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... the overarching goal of preventing the creation of new debris, particularly in low Earth orbit. Ten steps to enhance space sustainability Given the existing legal framework and initiatives to adapt this framework to cope with the 3Cs, it is possible...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...constantly evolving, and more and more venture capitals and investors are looking in the direction of space sustainability. Space technologies keep developing while fast deployments, fast launches, and smaller satellites now mean decreasing costs ...
