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November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... surveillance, since it will give full coverage of Earth’s surface including ocean and polar regions, and also near space for both air and space traffic management in one device, along with meeting the requirements of the Global ...Navigation Plan of Action of ICAO, NextGen of USA, and the Single European Sky ATM (...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... possible. George Freeman MP, UK Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, has been leading a series of round tables on space sustainability, space standards and space policy, to ensure that everyone has a say. With regard to ...holding it back. We need to remain cognisant of the twin drivers of commercial sustainability and space sustainability. And certainly, we’re very plugged in to what the academic community is doing, with studies...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... survival of all humankind. About the authors Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of over 30 years in the field...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
.... He previously served 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 Target...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... effective institution with the adequate authority and resources to act independently and promptly before an outbreak becomes a global pandemic and a catastrophe. The governance of global health and space activities need not exist in parallel ... the author 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 is also the...
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...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... wealth of resources. Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific and ethical questions. Some of these questions are deceptively ... science, economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines, radio and broadcast documentaries. She was recently the ‘in-house’ writer and researcher for London-based ...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...take account of this, there are two competing ways that space lawyers have developed to try to define a jurisdictional boundary between air and space law. The first, and so far more familiar solution, is to adopt a ‘spatialist...’ approach by choosing a specific altitude as the point where air law ends and space law begins. The...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... Courts, Denmark; Visiting 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 of the UNESCO-EOLSS sub...
