August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... century, Polish scientists cooperated with the USSR in space initiatives such as the Interkosmos programme. The first Polish...ones are coordinating and leading discussions between the space industry and space law and policy in order to increase Poland...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... a new multilateral negotiation based on its text. Finally, I believe that the Russian-initiated resolution on ‘No First Placement of Space Weapons’ adopted at the UN General Assembly for the first time in 2014 and again in 2015, represents another...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...its activities and lacks a strong enforcement power. The availability of more diversified weapons increases the vulnerability of space-based systems To better appreciate the situation, let’s look at some numbers: Twelve states have demonstrated their...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...this coalesce with those laws that would apply to more traditional forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of missile early warning, missile defence, battlespace awareness, and technical...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...But, after all it gives us in terms of improving the lives of so many people on Earth, is that to be the defining feature of space - as a platform for military conduct? If so, then perhaps the doomsayers may be correct and we had better learn to live...
