October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... is no longer theoretical. The Act mandates improved tracking of space objects and stricter end-of-life disposal standards, aligning EU policy with international norms. Safety is an increasingly urgent concern as low Earth orbit becomes saturated...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
One of the characteristics associated with the rapid development of space technology is that comprehensive standards of regulation cannot easily be specified in advance. Simply put, if we do not fully understand the technology - and the risks ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... than 60 years old. Those who played with Lego in the 1960s and 70s will remember it as a bag of standard-sized bricks and a large grey baseboard, on which houses were built using a selection of clip-in windows and...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
The galaxy known as Messier 82 is close by astronomical standards - about 12 million light-years away - and visible in the night sky near Ursa Major with binoculars or a ...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... via satellite applications (Source: NSR). The three cloud service models as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - each come...
October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... spacefaring nations, including the Philippines. These middle-power states may be considered as emerging spacefaring nations by most standards and it can be inferred that their national space agencies are still in their formative years, just starting...
