September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... Galileo, Europe continues to move along this path. It is right to be aware of the dual military and civil character of space activities - and Europe’s approach is right in this regard. It is necessary to take stock of the evolution and even the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... a pressing one. Because of this, future and peaceful space exploration is especially important, as is the provision of long-term space activities in ‘polluted’ near-Earth space, which concerns the entire international community. Asteroids and comets...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... to launch’ I would place the EU-initiated Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities, a voluntary set of measures designed to promote the safety, security and sustainability of space activity. Some readers may be aware that this proposed Code was...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... developing within Australia for more than a decade - that the legislation administered by the department, namely the Space Activities Act 1998 and its subordinate legislation, is not adapted to providing “the right conditions for entrepreneurs and...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...weapons, Woomera Rocket Range was also the hub of space activities in Australia from the 1950s to 1980. Several significant ...New South Wales Woomera Rocket Range was also the hub of space activities in Australia from the 1950s to 1980 One of the world...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... debris. 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...
