March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...be exposed to the Overview Effect of seeing our planet Earth from space, the result would be greatly beneficial. This is the promise of private passenger spaceflight, or pioneering space tourism, which after a decade’s hiatus - since the last private...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., retrofit, and servicing, possible active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial air...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... B330 will have 330 cubic metres (12,000 cu/ ft) of internal space. The craft will support zero-gravity research including scientific missions, manufacturing processes, a destination for space tourism and a craft for missions destined for the Moon...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along with this...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
..., in the relatively short term, many more humans will have the opportunity to go into space through the development of a commercial space ‘tourism’ industry, these risks translate not only to the problems associated with the destruction of important...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... in private and commercial spaceflight, but financial analysts see a bright and profitable future in space-based commerce. Off-Earth mining, space tourism, and the vast range of services available from commercial satellites are just a few. Clean...
