September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... treaty framework and national legislation, and soft law instruments such as principles, guidelines, recommended practices and standards. The existing international treaty framework comprises five UN treaties that were developed in the late 1960s and...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... osteopenia, physicians apply an individual approach, using the specified acceptable values of BMD according to the international health standard for the International Space Station (ISS). Along this line, at the end of a six-month spaceflight, one...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... constellation size. These best practices directly address, and in a complementary manner even surpass, existing guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
...Earth space pollution appeared and continues to grow.4,5,6 Eco-standards for automobile fuel have been in place for a ...for example, changes in perception or the use of stricter green standards. The model can be applied to assess the eco-credentials of...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... international nature of the resulting marketplace supporting CubeSats. It’s hard to realise that prior to the emergence of the CubeSat standard, Surrey Space, Ltd. and its class of satellites down to about 100 kg, were considered the smallest useful...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
...next level of abstraction. Almost nobody builds their own satellite standard anymore – it doesn’t make sense to re-invent the... more than 200 CubeSats from the International Space Station. The second standard, PocketQube, is a 5 cm cube with a mass of ...
