15 May 2024
Lisbon summit calls for urgent action on space threats
... basis of us by space operations and services.Her stark warning was delivered in an opening address to the ‘Management & Sustainability of Outer Space Activities' conference a precurser to the UN's Summit of the Future in New York later this year...
June 2015
Bringing technology down to earth
...governance. The focus of the two-day meeting Umbilical Design co-organized in 2014 was on Space for Sustainability and Sustainability in the Space sector. Space technology transfer involves finding technologies and concepts in the space industry that...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... space environment is vast, but the portion of usable space environment in orbits around the Earth that can sustain commercial space operations is fast diminishing, due to space debris. This problem is further complicated by the launch, or proposed...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... can be conflated, and arguably diluted, by association with other, pragmatic near-term issues. It is good that space sustainability is talked about in conferences such as this, but the community should be wary of over-academising the subject, while...
13 May 2023
Inmarsat boss calls for urgent action to reduce space debris
... in Lisbon this week. “It would be irresponsible of me not to call out that I believe we are at a crisis point regarding space sustainability which requires immediate and decisive action,” he stated. “Every year that we fail to act increases the cost...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...has been convened to address the issue.18 Clearly, there is recognition that this is a problem that affects future sustainability of space activities. The legal framework to deal with debris currently can best be described as ambiguous.19 Non-binding...
