June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... an even larger role in shaping both the priorities and the laws and policies governing space. I see this as a consequence of traditional space becoming less influential in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being lessened...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...no financial or business logic to such investments if they cannot return a profit. As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert. But for now, they certainly stand still, clinging...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...started at a meeting of the Santa Monica chapter of the Space Tourism Society. I was there giving an update on a ...when the job of many of those employed by governments to go into space is to look around, take pictures and rush home themselves. Dennis ...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...But, after all it gives us in terms of improving the lives of so many people on Earth, is that to be the defining feature of space - as a platform for military conduct? If so, then perhaps the doomsayers may be correct and we had better learn to live...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...engage in designing and building mega-structures in space and to use space resources to sustain our species. ESA lunar ...author Dr Joseph Pelton is former Dean of the International Space University, Arthur C Clarke Foundation founder, and the first...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... which are binding upon Luxembourg do not make operators internationally liable for damage caused by space objects on the Earth, in air space or in outer space; instead, it is the States that launch or procure the launch that are potentially liable...
