October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... policymakers and diplomats should focus on strong national legislation on space resource issues, synchronisation of laws and standards with like-minded nations, close coordination with foreign partners on space situational awareness (SSA) and space...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
...space industry. It could form the basis of an ‘IATA’ (International Air Transport Association) for space, setting global standards for safety, security, efficiency and sustainability in space. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first commercially...
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...
