On 6 April 2020, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources wherein the U.S. Administration takes the unprecedented position that outer space is not a global commons. The following open letter strongly urges the Government of Canada to reiterate its policy that outer space is a global commons and work through multilateral forums to seek a widely-supported international agreement on how space resources should be recovered and used: PDF
Canada Urged Not to Endorse US Approach to Space Mining
Globe and Mail with insights from Michael Byers
Space 3D podcast: A Glowing Interview with Space Radiation Expert Dr. Jeff Chancellor
featuring Jeff Chancellor.
Celestial Citizen: Space Law – Entering the Space 5.0 Era
featuring Timiebi Aganaba.
Law Breakfast with Steven Freeland
Steven Freeland’s Space Café WebTalk series.
Satellites and space debris are polluting our orbit. More than the stars are at stake
by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley. The Globe and Mail.
Salt Spring Recommendations
The Recommendations were adopted at an international workshop on ‘Space Debris and National Security’ on Salt Spring Island, Canada, on January 10 and 11, 2020. They reflect a consensus view, and should not be attributed to the individual participants. The workshop was convened by the Outer Space Institute and the University of British Columbia with financial support from the Canadian Department of National Defence and the Salt Spring Forum: PDF
How Elon Musk can help save astronomy
by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley. The Los Angeles Times.
Meteoroid Stream Formation Due to the Extraction of Space Resources from Asteroids
by Logan Fladeland, Aaron Boley, and Michael Byers. Conference paper for the 1st International Orbital Debris Conference, December 9-12, 2019.
Meteoroid Stream Formation Due to the Extraction of Space Resources from Asteroids
by Fladeland, Boley, and Byers. Presentation by Aaron Boley at the 1st International Orbital Debris Conference, December 9-12, 2019, Sugar Land, TX, USA.
Modeling Debris from Asteroid Mining to Inform Legal Frameworks
The Space Resource with insights from Logan Fladeland, Aaron Boley and Michael Byers
May the Space Force be with you: Canada and the non-weaponization of Space
by Paul Meyer. The Hill.