January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... way all of the very real threats that come to our planet from space - orbital space debris, issues related to changes to the geomagnetosphere, threats from space weather (i.e. CMEs, solar radiation flares, and depletion of the ozone layer), all...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...to install a payload on the exterior of a satellite. Such payloads could fulfil a wide variety of missions: Earth imaging, communications, space weather monitoring, and more. But they cannot make use of the host satellite’s systems; they must provide...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The second expert group looked at issues of debris and space situational awareness, the third looked at space weather and a final group examined the role of new actors from the perspective of regulation and...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... to the construction site? Sensors could be mounted on the OTVs to collect information about, for example, debris, radiation, space weather and the status of satellites along the path - all with unprecedented position and frequency. Secondly, simply...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... some common rules and standards for commercial space operationsSome The space environment is a harsh operating environment in which spacecraft are subjected to a number of hazards, such as space weather, cosmic rays and meteors. In addition to the...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
...issues include matters related to planetary protection, planetary defence, cybersecurity, space weather, space transportation systems, standardisation of space ports, space traffic management, space travel and tourism, threats to dark and quiet skies...
