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.”
New upper stage disposal rules will help, not harm, U.S. leadership in space
Ewan Wright. Space News.
Sustainable skies and the Earth–space environment
Andrew Williams, Aaron Boley, Giuliana Rotola, Richard Green. Nature Sustainability volume 7, pages 228–231 (2024).
Canada needs an Inuk astronaut
Michael Byers. The Globe and Mail.