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November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...’s Permanent Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organisation at Montreal he took up the issue of the integration of Air and Near Space Traffic Management. He is the former India Representative to the Council of ICAO and is currently Chairman of the International Foundation for Aviation, Aerospace...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... true of medium orbits, where GPS satellites operate, and higher geosynchronous orbits. Our dependence on the data we get back from satellites and the capabilities which satellites and space operations give us is only going to grow with ... long term. We are facing quite an issue with space debris. At present, depending on the references you use, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 large space debris objects. That’s quite significant, considering ...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... possibility of serious disruption and damage of unimaginable extent, scope and nature. One US Air Force General is reported to have stated that after a war in space, “You go back to World War II... you go back to the Industrial Age”. Most of the above issues can only be resolved...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
...constitutes an offensive action can vary widely, confused by context, time, intent and even national norms. One further potential issue is that the denial of access to sensitive but crucial information may exclude ... in the Royal Air Force, where he was an operational pilot and commanded both 12 Squadron and RAF Lossiemouth. He was Director of the Air Staff in MoD (2007-2010) with Space and Cyber Policy in his portfolio, and Head of Capability Deep...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
...detect, respond to and contain an outbreak on Earth. As humanity begins to venture further afield and establish more permanent residence in space, responding to a pandemic in space, or a virus originating from space, are real and pressing issues that need to be... David Kuan-Wei Chen is the Executive Director of the McGill Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...nationality of individual astronauts. Interplanetary spaceflight poses unique issues in respect of identifying and codifying criminality Article 22 (1) states inter alia that...Space Flight). 9 Bockstiegal, K.H., Vereschetin, V. and Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space Tourism - Parallel Synergies between Air and Space Law? German Journal of Air and Space...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... and development in the international legal framework for space, given the complex strategic issues to be addressed, and the broadening range of activities in space that may be possible. A militaristic view of space ...Professor Université Toulouse1 Capitole; Member of Faculty, London Institute of Space Policy and Law; Associate Member, Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University; Adjunct Professor, University of Adelaide; Member ...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... on the advisory boards for global organisations such as Space Vault, Finsophy, and STEM for Women magazine. She also sits on the Space Economy Task Force in Austin, Texas. Jeff Smith is...space organisations and is on the National Space Society’s Space Ambassador Committee. He is an additive manufacturing mentor for summer interns, and a guest speaker/exhibitor/judge at the Cities in Space competition. Jeff served five years in the US Air Force and...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...interlinked areas that have received considerable, if superficial, discussion in the broader media: the air-space boundary issue and the status of the people involved in these sub-orbital tourist ventures. These two ...by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic means that the air/space boundary issue – the question of where space begins - is a fundamental element of the space tourism industry. The legal classifications of craft, crew and passengers will all...
