May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...binding instruments. Not only is the issue of space debris a major environmental concern, but it also clearly impacts ...collision resulted in approximately 700 additional pieces of hazardous debris, each with the potential to cause further decades-long...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... engaged in defending against asteroids, comets, solar flares, coronal ejections, changes to Earth’s magnetosphere, and orbital space debris. The world is moving towards a new reality where humanity will depend increasingly on a new space economy and...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...weren’t happy, saying it would confuse astronomical observations… Some lambasted Rocket Lab for contributing to the orbital debris problem. Instead of inspiration, they saw pollution.” Then, in early 2019, the Russian company Orbital Display proposed...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... Consider the following fictitious scenario. The mass of all orbital debris is deceptively small: only 8,000 metric tons, which is ... would ever notice. However, if this same pieces of debris were spinning one metre above the surface of our planet ...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... to pass the buck, as there is no binding legislation in place that would force all space players to track space debris/mitigate the problems it poses. And although scientists insist that WT1190F poses no threat to anyone on the ground...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... in space traffic management, space situational awareness, the prevention of harmful contamination by space objects and regulation of space debris. But the type and depth of information provided under the Registration Convention can vary from one...
