November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...Achieving the second goal will entail fostering the growth of private space markets through both improvements to regulations and the use of a variety of economic policy instruments. Of course, this is all contingent on funding. President Donald Trump...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... being priced out of the market and identified an opportunity which it is supporting with funding, policy and spaceflight regulations. One of the shortlisted sites for horizontal launch was Cornwall Airport Newquay, a civilian airport in the far...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... for monitoring humanitarian developments in Burma. Secondly, the extension of terrestrial human rights into space, as a means of regulating and guiding human activities in outer space. It is this second intersection which will bear significance...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... UK space community a strengthened sense of purpose. Meanwhile, the 2018 Space Industry Act is nearing completion as the necessary regulations move through parliament and the first UK launches will be possible as early as summer 2022. Image of the...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...the reality that orbits are a finite natural resource that must be used rationally and equitably The regulation of different aspects of space activities (spectrum, launch and operations) is distributed across multiple agencies in most countries, each...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
.... Alternatively humanity can look for values and try to create a shared understanding that becomes codified through regulation (rather than derived from it). Fundamentally, the different values that underpin state activity and commercial activity...
