September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
Today, NewSpace companies are springing up almost on a weekly basis and there is strong reason to believe that there are over 1,000 such companies spread around the world. They are embedding themselves across the value chain from upstream to ...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... of George Orwell’s 1984? Yes, it certainly does. Let me quote some words of wisdom written by Adam Clayton Powell III: “Backyard sunbathers, naturalists, couples, speeding vehicles, and naked paramours seen through bedroom windows can all...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
...pp. 63-73 About the authors David Rodríguez Martínez is a Mechanical Engineer graduated in 2015 from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He served as a visiting researcher at the West Virginia University (WV, United States) and holds a MSc. in Space...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... Article II prohibits national appropriation of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies; Article III establishes that international law applies to activities conducted in space; and Article IV, which is referred to as the “peaceful...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
.... First, the principle of non-intervention, as part of general international law, applies to outer space activities in virtue of Article III of the Outer Space Treaty (OST). What is more, according to sentence one of Article VIII of the OST, “a State...
October 2019
Asgardia’s calendar and its role in space industrialisation strategy
... the conventional names of the ecliptic zodiac constellations and contains exactly 28 days: (I) Aquarius; (II) Pisces; (III) Aries; (IV) Taurus; (V) Gemini; (VI) Cancer; (VII) Leo; (VIII) Virgo; (IX) Libra; (X) Scorpio; (XI) [Serpentarius, Ophiuchus...
