March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
..., to become a reality, the space passenger transport industry needs to mature, raising its reliability and safety to airline standards and reducing the ticket price to orbit by at least two orders of magnitude. Clearly, this is the goal of SpaceX...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... ‘Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities’. The difficulty is that all the existing standards are soft-law instruments, lacking in compulsion and, although reflected by the regulations of many spacefaring nations, they...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... 3. Interoperability: agree to develop infrastructure to common standards for space hardware and operating procedures that include fuel..., the closer they get to becoming a de facto standard. Benefits for India Recognising the importance to the USA ...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... will be designed for this and help to pave the way for new international in-orbit service standards and industry-standard interfaces. As these space shipping containers arrive at the SPS construction site, they will need to be docked...
