On Monday 15 January, the 2nd anniversary of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s historic spacewalk, the House of Commons debated the Space...

2017 has been an interesting and exciting year in the world of space law and policy. It was, of course, the 50th anniversary of the Outer...

The UK Space Industry Bill has now passed the House of Lords and is on its way to the House of Commons, the date for its second reading...

There was a recent article on Space.com[1] discussing the definition of a satellite. The article was very good but didn’t discuss the...

Like any good science fiction nerd, I have long had an interest in robots and artificial intelligence. As the moral, legal and political...

Notice the flag in the upper left… On Friday Sentinel-5P was launched. The British press were keen to emphasise that it was ‘British...

I am not an expert on nuclear weapons, nor do I claim to be. I am however a citizen of a democracy, and in particular one which has a...

This week I attended the fourth meeting of The Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group[1] (I am an observer). After the...

Between Asgardia[1] and Elon Musk inspired talk of Mars colonies, there has been quite a bit of discussion of colonization of space and...

Luxembourg has become the second nation, the first in Europe, to provide a legal framework for space resource utilization activities...

The Space Industry Bill[1] was announced as part of the Queen’s Speech on 21 June 2017. It received its first reading in the House of...

The Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology recently conducted an enquiry into the UK Draft Spaceflight Bill[1] and have now...

Last Wednesday US Senator Ted Cruz, a man who is quite clearly a space enthusiast, chaired a hearing on “Reopening the American Frontier:...

I spent the past week in a windowless room in Vienna, and had a really interesting and enjoyable time. I went as part of the SGAC...

This past Friday I had the good fortune to attend the ECSL[1] Practitioners’ Forum at ESA headquarters in Paris. This is the third...

This is the second of what will probably be three posts on the consequences of Brexit on the UK Space Sector. The first post served as a...

A UK spaceport has been on the horizon for a few years now and there are number of different sites scattered throughout the UK that have...

This was originally intended to be a single post largely derived from a presentation I gave at a conference on ‘The Impact of the 2016...

The Outer Space Treaty (OST), frequently described as the ‘constitution’ or cornerstone of space law, was opened for signature fifty...

A new year always seems like a good time to start a new project and this represents the more successful of my notions for a new year...