May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... protection of their national security interests. This means any attempt to apply the jus in bello principles to a ‘space war’ is fraught with complexity, challenging the overly simplistic assumptions that are often made by commentators when seeking...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
In 2015 the United States enacted a law defining ‘space resource’ to mean an ‘abiotic resource in situ in outer space’, which includes but is not limited to water and minerals. This definition is considered to include abiotic or non-biotic resources...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...refinement over the past century, ever since the first war-surplus machines were converted for commercial passenger use in 1919...more hostile than the worst that human irresponsibility, pollution and war could ever wreak on Earth. For the space nation ...
February 2023
Cultivating cultural memory as Asgardians
...mineral and water resources. Countering conflict Sometimes we fail to understand the reasons leading people to war, establishing empires thanks to vast war arsenals, and competing with other nations to display their power. Even if we are not directly...
20 February 2019
Trump signs directive to initiate his Space Force
... Security Program and an expert in satellites and space weapons said: “President Trump has called space a new war fighting domain. Space is important to militaries, that’s true, but it is only a small piece of what happens up there. “Eighty...
03 January 2021
Space Has No Frontie
...the telescope). An interesting aside is a commentary on Lovell’s involvement in the shady world of espionage during World War II and the Cold War; as the dust jacket reports, “classified documents disclosed since his death in 2012 reveal that he even...
