October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...’s answer to global needs, allowing us to manage the environment, to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure civil security. The Sentinel missions, the first of which was launched in 2014, are based on a constellation of two satellites...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... are less expensive than space-specific parts and reach high levels of quality through mass production. Civil components such as these can be incorporated into the H3 to drive down cost with no compromise in reliability. Concepts for...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...10 (“Whatever the ultimate products of space exploration and occupation may prove to be, man in his present state of civilization will in large measure determine whether they will be beneficial or nefarious. He will do so by the development of or the...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... during operations. Previous versions of asteroid bills tried to remedy these concerns upfront, with HR 1508 providing that civil actions for relief could be sought [15], and that they would be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... accuracy through advanced atomic clocks, a longer design life than previous GPS satellites, and a third operational civil signal (L5) that benefits commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications. The limited war strategy outlined here...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... dense, unlike any metallic ore bodies we find on Earth today To mitigate this concern, a group of government, academic, civil society and commercial entities (including many of the space resource focused companies) have joined to form The...
