January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...it knowingly transferred title to another. It does not base its ownership claim on a specific unambiguous law passed by Congress, but instead asserts its title claim through a series of administrative directives issued by NASA. Apparently, no foreign...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... Act, wherein launch standards are based on ‘voluntary industry consensus standards’. Progress reports are being submitted to Congress every 30 months until December 2021 when findings will be revisited and fed into future US space policy...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
... Rashid Space Centre, met up with ROOM’s managing editor Clive Simpson during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, to discuss some of the foreword-looking and far-reaching ambitions of the United Arab...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... ‘conversational’ article, PJ Blount and Michael Dodge - who both presented papers during the 2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) session on the plight of refugees - examine the opportunities and challenges of using space-based data for...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... of the value of networking across the global space business. After making contact at the 2011 International Astronautical Congress (IAC), they discovered a common commercial synergy and, despite initial differences in ambition, the Cape Town-based...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... private sector internationally to find ways to utilise space, especially extraterrestrial resources, for profit. Both the US Congress and the Government of Luxembourg have enacted laws to promote and encourage private space enterprises. The US law...
