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September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...legal regime will be appropriate should a dispute arise. But there is more to it than that: the air-space boundary is also important when considering a crucial marketing element, that of whether those travelling on such flights will...be forced to land in their territory. This provision undoubtedly recognised the difficulties experienced by US pilot Gary Powers in 1961 after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory. As a result, both ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... tension. A study by the US Defense Innovation Unit, Space Force and Air Force warns that China is on track to outpace the US by 2045 to become the dominant space power and displace the US as world economic leader. Both China... and Russia view space superiority as key to success in modern...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...space and ‘civilian’ space, with an all-civilian space agency, NASA. The government and media portrayal of early space was unmistakably ‘peaceful purposes’: see the film The Right Stuff, read the US-published Colliers magazine... old Beidou navigation satellite. By the 1980s, though, the concealment of military space within ‘civilian’ space by all the space powers became less and less feasible or credible A more recent development is trailing other ...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... Prof Dodge obtained his JD from the University of Mississippi School of Law (2008), and his LLM in Air & Space Law at McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada (2011). He formerly taught at the University of Mississippi... law & regulation. He has been a contributor to several aviation and space law focused journals, is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, is the Chair of the Legal Technical Committee with the American Institute...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...striving to reduce the debris population, these demonstrations increase tension in outer space and create a situation that encourages major space powers to accelerate their plans to develop retaliation capabilities. But ASAT tests ...(red), with the orbit of the International Space Station (white) as a comparison. The US Air Force makes available a lot of information resulting from its space surveillance network, but that information does not ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...activities and personnel move from one side to another. On the ground, many space powers benefitted from previous imperial and colonial conquests. Imperial territories became home to satellite control...outer space, and the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics and several papers on space policy in a variety of academic journals. Dr Bowen frequently appears in media items on space policy and advises practitioners on space ...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...where the commercial interests of the rich and powerful prevail. As hot topics go, space resource utilisation has been on the boil within the international space community for a number of years. This activity...member of the Research and Teaching Staff of the International Institute of Air & Space Law, Leiden University, and Assistant Secretary of The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group. She is currently a PhD Candidate at ...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... upon Luxembourg do not make operators internationally liable for damage caused by space objects on the Earth, in air space or in outer space; instead, it is the States that launch or procure the launch ...the processes initiated by the UN Resolution 68/74 on National Legislation Relevant to Peaceful Exploration and Use of Outer Space of 2013, which clearly required appropriate action on a national level in view of the increasing participation of ...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
...writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM Space Journal. He has 40 years of experience as a satellite communications engineer and consultant to the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author ...of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The Fragile Frontier, has edited three space industry magazines...
