June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...; development of the technology required for planetary defence; and the inception of an interdisciplinary approach to global space governance Reorganising space agencies One massive solar storm in the form of a giant coronal mass ejection could knock...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
...rapid advances in computing and networking are altering the space domain and putting tremendous pressure on the existing order... and difficult issues of spectrum needs, orbital crowding, space traffic management, liability and orbital debris. The near-...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
.... There should be a specialised agency of the UN charged with the task of expanding and strengthening the global space governance framework It is difficult to highlight or present a single event or even a chain of events that started a trend towards...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... group and developing countries, while taking into account the constantly changing nature of space activities. But the questions that new space governance mechanisms will have to address are seemingly growing and include: How to adequately regulate...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... be considerably different. The problem is how does regulatory regime keep up? How does global space governance keep up with space technology invention and the disruptive activities of NewSpace companies and constant entrepreneurial innovation? There...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...’. Beyond the PR fluff, however, lay several fundamental questions that test the boundaries of space governance. They can be broken down into two interlinked areas that have received considerable, if superficial, discussion in the ...
