Posted on ADS Advance, 1 February 2022 The UK will invest £1.4 billion to bolster our national interests in space, as part of the first Defence Space Strategy published today. Following publication of the National Space Strategy in September last year, the Defence Space Strategy (DSS) outlines how Defence will
By Karl Grossman, Presented at the Space Tourism: Legal Dimensions Conference, 29 January 2022 The push to turn space into a war zone could spell goodbye to space tourism. The space tourism drive that is underway, led by billionaires Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin company, Richard Branson and his
By Loukia Papadopoulos, Published by Interesting Engineering, 31 January 2022 Called 'e.Deorbit', it could change everything. Desperate times call for desperate measures. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), there are 128 million objects the size of 1 mm to 1 cm, 900,000 objects the size of 1 cm to 10 cm, and 34,000 objects greater
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 31 January 2022 The Senate version of the 2022 defense appropriations bill also includes $50 million, a House aide explained, but the House version only includes $5 million. WASHINGTON: A dozen House members have signed a letter to the chair and ranking member
by Emma Thorp, Posted on Orbital Today, 31 January 2022 Major Hurdle Removed for SaxaVord Shetland Space Centre Historic Environment Scotland has withdrawn the objection to the development of the SaxaVord Shetland Space Centre on the Isle of Unst. HES originally objected to the SaxaVord spaceport due to its proximity
By Algernon D'Ammassa, Published by Las Cruces Sun-News, 31 January 2022 A proposal that would have taxed passenger tickets to space with Virgin Galactic was tabled by a New Mexico legislative committee Monday afternoon, effectively scuttling the bill for the current 30-day session. H.B. 72 would have clarified an existing
By Andrew Jones, Published by SpaceNews, 28 January 2022 HELSINKI — China has released a new white paper outlining the centrality of space to the country’s “overall national strategy” as well as major plans for the years ahead. Over the next five years China will seek to develop its space
By Andrew Jones, Published by Space News, 27 January 2022 HELSINKI — China’s Shijian-21 space debris mitigation satellite has docked with a defunct Chinese satellite to drastically alter its geostationary orbit, demonstrating capabilities only previously exhibited by the United States. Data and tracking from space monitoring firms show that Shijian-21
