July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... another, to provide a legal framework for all other space programmes, has been discussed in parliament since June 2018. Mahulena Hofmann explains why Luxembourg needs a space legislation and provides an update on progress. The international treaties...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
...community as a whole and not just those countries with space programmes. Here, lawyer Jonathan Lim discusses the importance of human rights in space and how the maintenance of space as a peaceful and cooperative domain can be supported by established...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... is to provide those resources and for some 40 years, it has been embedding skilled personnel in every major European space programme. The company’s modus operandi is simple: hire the best people and support them to deliver. As well as providing...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
..., in 1973 – exactly half a century ago. Of course, in those days, any space-related achievements in Azerbaijan were subsumed within the overall Soviet space programme. Indeed, long-term ‘space watchers’ may remember the name of Musa Manarov, the Baku...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
..., inseparably interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... substantiated the leading role of sovereign states in the exploration and exploitation of space. However, economic instability resulted in a sharp reduction in government funding of space programmes and brought to the fore, on the one hand, the need...
