Commercial space industry: the new guardian of space sustainability Commercial space companies often make headlines for their technological advances and mission success. Beyond their technical achievements, they also actively engage in the governance of space activities. Zhuang Tian • April 12, 2024
Outer space heritage site protection Missions to and around the Moon are about to burgeon. How to ensure that future space explorers, while making new histories, also undertake appropriate measures to protect sites with historic value? Zhuang Tian • November 14, 2022
Satellites: Our eyes in the battlefield Satellites help us see the Earth from space, when we cannot observe it otherwise. We should give them some credit. Dimitra Stefoudi • April 06, 2022
International Space Regulation: A vital endeavour or a burden on the current international legal system? The ever-present issue of orbital and space debris, future space colonies and mining operations, bring new legal challenges that current international law cannot cope with. Deniz Nikolay Dirisu • November 18, 2021
Sustainability in space Space is becoming more contested, congested, competitive, and contaminated. How to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities, so present and future generations can use and explore it indefinitely? Tanja Masson-Zwaan • January 19, 2021
Artemis Accords: Star Trek or Star Wars? Ownership of space resources is contentious under international space law. Is the move by the US to gather international cooperation on this issue a viable solution? Mini Gupta, Wataru Inagaki, Pallavi Mund, Alif Nurfakhri Muhammad and Scott Schneider • June 04, 2020
Newspace for Global Benefit Finding the balance between international law and international business to enhance the capabilities of young space states for global benefit. Scott Schneider • March 30, 2020
Human spaceflight: from Yuri, to André, to ‘Tom, Dick & Harry’? Human space flight is as exciting today as it was 51 years ago when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. With the marketing of private space trips by companies like Space Expedition Curacao, excitement and legal issues have amplified Tanja Masson-Zwaan • April 10, 2012
