October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... control. Related discussions have therefore considered potential use of HAPS vehicles in defence of territorial sovereignty and space-based systems estimated to be worth around $325 billion to the US economy. Such emphases suggest not only that HAPS...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles – it is essential for NATO and its allies to be able to rely upon space-based systems for early observation and detection; this may enable them to identify and attribute activities and launch...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... such as NASA’s NEOCAM and the ill-fated Sentinel project of the B612 Foundation. The space-based systems are, of course, assisted by ground-based observatories. Solar ionic eruption hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere and reshaping the Van Allen...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
...making their protection a paramount concern for state and commercial actors alike. The vulnerability of space-based systems is characterised by physical remoteness, inherent signal delay, radiation exposure and the increasingly contested geopolitical...
