UNGA79 Science Summit panel featuring OSI Fellow David Kendall
Outer Space and the Arctic: Connections, Opportunities, Challenges
Michael Byers, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) No. 303
Comment on Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED) consultation on the Policy, Licensing and Technical Framework for Supplemental Mobile Coverage by Satellite (SMCS)
OSI Fellows and Junior Fellows submitted this comment in response to ISED’s proposed framework for the allocation of certain radio frequency bands to mobile services coverage via satellite, with the intention of highlighting the potential threats to radio and optical astronomy that could come from these satellites.
This comment was further endorsed by the President of the Canadian Astronomical Society – Société Canadienne d’Astronomie (CASCA), the Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), and astronomers from across Canada.
Sustainability of Space: Current and Future Implications for Canada
Keynote presentation given by OSI Fellow David Kendall at the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute’s (CASI) ASTRO2024, Toronto, Ontario
OSI Submission on Core Principles for Space Resource Activities
A team of OSI researchers has made a short submission to the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities established under the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS).
The submission focuses on identifying existing core principles for space resource activities. It does not analyse these core principles, nor does it provide a comprehensive overview of all of the rules and principles that may potentially be relevant to space resource activities. This limited scope is consistent with the current ambitions of the Working Group, which also focus on core principles.
The Final Frontier… For Law
McGill News with insights from Michael Byers
A New, Deadly Era of Space Junk Is Dawning, and No One Is Ready
Sam Lawler. Scientific American.
SpaceX space junk crashed onto Saskatchewan farmland, highlighting a potential impending disaster
Aaron Boley and Sam Lawler. The Conversation.
Outside/In
Roohi Dalal, Aaron Boley, and Sam Lawler discuss the implications of the new space race on an episode of the Outside/In podcast.
Moby’s Recommendations on Lunar and Cislunar Security
On March 1 and 2, 2024, the Outer Space Institute convened a group of experts (the Expert Group) from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and countries on Salt Spring Island, Canada, to discuss existing and foreseeable security-related challenges arising from activities on and around the Moon.
The Moby’s Recommendations on Lunar and Cislunar Security – named after one of the venues in which the Expert Group met – are the result of those discussions and are directed toward governments, inter-governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and other space actors.
The United Nations Security Council takes up Space Security – it might have been best if it had not
Paul Meyer. Open Canada.
OSI response to NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) Lunar Non-Interference Questionnaire
A response prepared by OSI Fellows and Junior Fellows to a May 2024 Lunar Non-Interference Questionnaire developed by NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS). This processes intends to survey the lunar community to “inform the development of a framework for further work on non-interference of lunar activities.”